Hans Hoets

Pieter Johannes Hoets (April 24, 1921 – August 28, 2014) was a Dutch Engelandvaarder, an active Dutch resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WW-II.

Hans Hoets
Hans Hoets in 2011
BornApril 24, 1921
The Hague, Netherlands
Died28 August 28, 2014
Stamford, Connecticut, USA
AllegianceNetherlands
Service/branchRoyal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL)
Rank2nd Lt. Special Services
UnitInfantry
Battles/warsWorld War II
Other workLawyer, writer

World War II

After a failed attempt to sail to England on June 19, 1940, he eventually left the country from Delfzijl on October 13, 1944. In Stockholm he signed up as a volunteer and was assigned to the Dutch Intelligence in Stockholm to interrogate new arrivals. After he arrived in England, he served in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.

Post-war

After the war he immigrated to the US, where he studied US law at Yale University, joined The Coca-Cola Company where he became Chief Counsel for Coca Cola Europe, and later joined New York-based Reid & Priest, a law firm with 160 attorneys founded in 1935 with an office in Washington, D.C.. Hoets authored five historic books, including De Yale Connection. De jacht op de Marcos-miljarden en het Zwitsers bankgeheim ("The Yale Connection. Hunting the Marcos billions and Swiss banking secrecy.")

Death

Hoets died on August 28, 2014, in Stamford, Connecticut, the United States.

Military and Knight's Orders

See also

  • List of Engelandvaarders

Bibliography

  • Vrijgevaren! Met voorwoord van Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (1976), ISBN 9061001412
  • Englandspiel ontmaskerd. Schijnstoot op Nederland en België 1942–1944 (1990), ISBN 9061003458
  • Spookspoor naar Moskou (1996), ISBN 9024271452
  • De Yale Connection. De jacht op de Marcos-miljarden en het Zwitsers bankgeheim. Met medewerking van Alexander Münninghoff (2000), ISBN 902611480X
  • Buitengaats! Met een Engelandvaarder de wereld in (2006), ISBN 905911163X

References

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