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Roelf Simon Lanting
Roelf Simon Lanting
Born	Second World War

Roelf Simon Lanting (

2 April 1993) was a Dutch reserve captain

.

Biography

Early years

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Military staff in Deurne in 1939;Lanting is the one with glasses

Lanting, son of a preacher, attended highschool (a five-year trade training) and a training to become a reserve officer and was appointed assistant-chief at the social department of the

occupied by Germany the Dutch governement in exile appealed to Dutch citizens not to become a prisoner of war

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Lanting organized several popular scientific meetings; these meetings were attended by many, often of different social status and religion. The Germans banned these meetings, however Lanting continued them illegally with the staff of the Glasfabriek. He was also a member of the regional office "Vijfheerenlanden and the Alblasserwaard". This office was created to counterbalance the so called "Heemkunde" (the importance of

heridity, as investigated for example by Josef Mengele) and was lead by Louis Rudolph Jules van Rappard, major of Gorinchem. However after some time the Germans closed the office. During the mobilization in April 1938 he was offered the postion of communication officer at the staff (27 R.I.); later he was also appointed trust officier and secret service officer in the military authority area "Peel en Maas

". Because of his illegal activities Lanting was arrested in 1943 but was released for lack of evidence. At the end of the war he was appointed lieutenant - aide-de-camp (1944) in the already liberated area of Nieuw-Ginneken, and in November 1944 appointed head of the military staff.

Military work

When the east part of the Netherlands was liberated Lanting was transferred to the staff headquarters in

Russian part of Berlin but also in the four allied zones of the city. In Frohnau, at the war grave, more than 100 Dutch people were buried between people from Belgium, France and Luxembourg at the National French Cemetery. Many Dutch people were just temporarily buried here before they were identified by the group of Lanting and brought back to their family in the Netherlands. The Identification and Burial Service was supervised by France but Lanting had full autority over the group. Not only had the group of Lanting to identify the death but their job also included a lot of research work abroad, for example in Russia

.

When the Identification and Burial Service was completely set up and functioned well Lanting was, against the wish of the French authorities and his own, released from his duties and send to the Netherlands. Lanting fought a long battle to be rehabilitated and received support during this fight from but not limited to Minister of War C. Staf.

Exhumation of corpses from a German mass grave

External links

(in Dutch) Lanting on Deurnewiki

References

^ (in Dutch) 'Land- en zeemacht. Bevordering', in De Tijd, 21 December 1929 - retrieved 8 March 2013
^ (in Dutch) 'Staatscourant. Landmacht', in the Algemeen Handelsblad, 7 December 1933 - retrieved 8 March 2013
^ (in Dutch) 27th Regiment Infantry - retrieved 16 March 2013

1974. (in Dutch) De dominee gaat voorbij. Familiealbum van driekwarteeuw protestants leven in Nederland. Uitgeverij Ambo.

[1] (in Dutch) 'Land- en zeemacht. Bevordering', in De Tijd, 21 December 1929 - retrieved 8 March 2013

[2] (in Dutch) 'Staatscourant. Landmacht', in the Algemeen Handelsblad, 7 December 1933 - retrieved 8 March 2013

[3] (in Dutch) 27th Regiment Infantry - retrieved 16 March 2013