Richard Schoemaker
Dutch fencer (1886–1942)
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Richard Leonard Arnold Schoemaker (5 October 1886 – 3 May 1942) was a Dutch Olympic fencer, engineer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, professor of architecture at Bandung Institute of Technology and Delft University of Technology, and leader of a resistance group during World War II, for which he was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[1][2]
Prof. ir. R.L.A. Schoemaker | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 October 1886 Roermond, Netherlands |
| Died | 3 May 1942 (aged 55) Sachsenhausen, Germany |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Fencing |
He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[3] He was one of 95 people who, most posthumously, received the Dutch Cross of Resistance.[4] The street forming the eastern border of the Delft University campus is named Schoemakerstraat after him.[5]
