Hendrik Seyffardt
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Hendrik Seyffardt (November 1, 1872- February 6, 1943) was a Dutch General who collaborated with Nazi Germany and was the founder of the Waffen-SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands.
In the build-up to World War II, he began to give lectures for the conservative Verbond voor Nationaal Herstel (Alliance for National Recovery - VNH) led by Van Gybland Oosterhoff. In 1937, Seyffardt became a member of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB), and started writing articles for their publication Volk en Vaderland. But after a year and a half, disillusioned with the infighting between Anton Mussert and Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, he resigned his membership. In October 1940 he attended a meeting of a Fascist group organised around the magazine De Waag.
On June 28, 1941, in the aftermath of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis proclamied the creation of the Volunteer Legion Netherlands, the largest Dutch SS Legion. Hendrik Seyffardt was appointed the commander of the Volunteer Legion Netherlands and had founded the legion. The legion was then sent to the Eastern Front to fight the Soviet Union. Hendrik Seyffardt was later assasinated by Jan Verleun, a Dutch resistance fighter on February 6, 1943, he died after succumbing to his wounds from the gunshot.
