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Persönliche Daten Joannes Matthieu Beckers (V2) 

• Er wurde geboren am 3. September 1892 in Heer, Limburg, Nederland.
• Er wurde getauft.
• Erstkommunion rund 1899.
• Beruf: Regio manager PLEM (Provincie Limburg ElectriciteitsMaatschappij) regio Heerlen t/m Vaals in Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland.
• Physische Beschreibung: Brown.
• Staatsangehörigkeit: Nederlandse.
• Glaube: Rooms Katholiek.
• Wohnhaft:
• Heer, Limburg, Nederland.
• bis 1927: Hoensbroek, Limburg, Nederland.
• von nach 1927 bis um 1932: Rijksweg, Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland.
• Professor Cobbenhagenstraat, Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland.
• (Verwantschap (het Kekulé-systeem)) : 4 - Overgrootvader.
• (Language spoken) : Maastrichts, Dutch, German.
• (Move) nach 1927 in Gulpen.
• (Move) rund 1932.
• (2de Wereld Oorlog) im Jahr 1940 in Gulpen: Inval van de Duitse troepen.

  De inval van de Duitse troepen in mei 1940 ging gepaard met slechts geringe schade in Gulpen. Behalve de wegen, was er weinig schade van de oorlogshandelingen. Het normale leven hernam min of meer zijn loop na de bezetting. Geleidelijk aan kreeg de bevolking meer te maken met de maatregelen van de bezetter.

   

  Van oudsher kende Gulpen een kleine joodse gemeenschap (negentien inwoners). Tijdens de bezettingsjaren werden zij weggevoerd of vertrokken zij uit de gemeente. 

• (2de Wereld Oorlog) im Jahr 1943 in Gulpen: Bominslagen en een neerstortend vliegtuig.

  Enkele malen werden de inwoners van Gulpen opgeschrikt door bominslagen en een neerstortend vliegtuig. Hierbij vielen enkele slachtoffers.

   

  De oudere broers van gezin Beckers-Vesters sliepen op zolder gewoon door, maar Miep en haar man vluchtte dan met de kleinere kinderen in doodsangst naar de kelder. De kelder van het huis was namelijk helemaal onderstut en het glas was vervangen door hout. Dit bood enige beschutting.

• (2de Wereld Oorlog) September 1944 in Gulpen: Bevrijding.

  Gulpen werd bevrijd in september 1944. Door het vele militaire verkeer hadden de wegen, vooral de druk bereden Rijksweg, zwaar te lijden gehad. Na de bevrijding werden ongeveer 100.000 man troepen gelegerd in en rond Gulpen. In bijna elk huis, ook bij het gezien Beckers-Vesters, waren soldaten ingekwartierd. De troepen vertrokken tussen kerstmis en nieuwjaar.

   

  De gemeente kon vervolgens beginnen het herstellen van de schade aan vooral de wegen. De schade aan woningen viel mee. In totaal waren tien woningen en boerderijen getroffen.

• (Gulpen) im Jahr 1930.

  De landbouw was oorspronkelijk de belangrijkste bestaansbron voor de bevolking in de omtrek van Gulpen. Van oudsher was Gulpen een handelscentrum Voor de regio. Die centrumfunctie kwam tot uiting in een sterk ontwikkelde middenstand, een omvangrijke boter- en eiermarkt en vee- en warenmarkten.

   

  Vanaf de dertiger jaren kwam ook bedrijfsnijverheid opzetten, zoals de bierbrouwerij, kaarsenfabriek, azijnfabriek, chocoladefabriek en leerlooierij. De buren, fam. Cobbenhagen, waren de eigenaar van de kaarsen- en azijnfabriek. 

• (PLEM) im Jahr 1937 in Gulpen.

  In 1937 verkocht de gemeente Gulpen na enkele maanden van onderhandelingen het gemeentelijke electriciteitsbedrijf aan de Provinciale Electriciteits Maatschappij voor een bedrag van Fl. 89.000,—. Hoewel dit bedrijf altijd winstgevend was geweest verwachtte het gemeentebestuur dat een verkoop op een later tijdstip een veel lager bedrag zou opleveren. Inventarisnummer 457

• (Move) bis um 1927 in Hoensbroek: Foto genomen in de tuin van hun huis in Hoensbroek..
• Er ist verstorben am 27. Mai 1967 in Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland, er war 74 Jahre alt.

  Oorzaak: Longkanker

• Er wurde beerdigt nach 27. Mai 1967 in Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland.

  Rooms-Katholieken begraafplaats

• Ein Kind von Pieter Hubert Beckers und Maria Johanna Soons

Familie von Joannes Matthieu Beckers (V2)

Er ist verheiratet mit Maria Cornelia Wilhelmina (Miep) Vesters.

Sie haben geheiratet am 26. August 1925 in Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland, er war 32 Jahre alt.

Niet helemaal zeker of dit de huwelijksfoto’s zijn.

Kind(er):

1. Agnes Gerarda Theresia (Maus) Beckers  1933-2018 

Notizen bei Joannes Matthieu Beckers (V2)

Birth

Joannes Matthieu Beckers was born on the 3th of September 1892 in Heer en Keer. A former municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. Son of Pieter Hubert Beckers (1859–1896) and Maria Johanna Soons (1860–1934). His calling name was different from what you would expect, not Johan or Jan, but Mathieu.

 

Great War

On the 4th of August 1914, the German imperial army invaded the Belgian province of Liège. The troops marched on the Dutch-Belgian border towards the Meuse. Contrary to what was expected, the Belgian army offered resistance to Visé (less than 20 km from Maastricht) and for ten days at the forts around Liège. After the outbreak of the war, the Netherlands was flooded with refugees. In Maastricht (with 38,000 inhabitants), about 14,000 Belgian refugees where sheltered in the St. Pietersberg caves, in the factory halls of the Sphinx and in the Augustine Church. Of these, about 9,000 returned to Belgium in the autumn. It must have been an extremely scaring time for the 21 years old Mathieu and the family, because it was still unclear at that time whether Germany would also invade the Netherlands.

 

Family

Mathieu (32) married Maria Cornelia Wilhelmina Vesters (26) on the 26th of August 1925 in Maastricht. Maria was born on the 24th of December 1897 in 's-Hertogenbosch, daughter of Petrus Vesters and Anna Maria Theresia van Oers. They would have five sons and two daughters. 

1. Huub (1927)

2. Jo (1927)

3. Piet

4. G

5. Maus (1933)

6. P

7. R (1942)

 

WWII

On Friday morning on the 5th of May 1940, German troops invaded the Netherlands. In South Limburg it started in Vaals. Almost two weeks later, on the 18th of May (see Resources), the Limburg courier reports the following.

 "Vaals, which almost borders Aachen, must have been one of the first Dutch places to have been fallen into German hands. As far as we could tell, the occupation of Vaals went without an incident. 

But the courier reported also that Gulpen not simply surrendered. Among others, men had blown up the bridge over the Gulp. Until a new bridge was built, the German troops had to make a detour over Wijlré.... For a few days the most fantastic rumors were circulated about Gulpen, especially in Maastricht. Gulpen would be completely destroyed, but in retrospect not a single window was broken.... On the first day you could see many German troops, even entering the country site to keep up the pace, now there is no longer a soldier to be seen and just about everyone has resumed his normal life. However, in Vaals and everywhere along the Rijksweg that leads to Maastricht, it is completely different. Military transports to and from the front still hunt here. Day and night."

 The courier also wrote: "Just outside Gulpen, to the left of the Gulpener hills, sensations were still experienced when a war pilot was forced to land his machine on a hill. He accomplished this almost hopeless landing in a beautiful way." 

This incident with the plane made a big impression on my grandfather and my mother. They feared that the plane would crash into the village with all its bombs. My mother remembered also the seemingly infinite troop movement that was accompanied by quite a lot of noise.

 

At the end of the war it became too dangerous on the street and the schools were closed. In September 19944 demoralized soldiers of the defeated German army marched through South Limburg to the German border. In their hurry, many soldiers left their weapons and equipment on the way. On their flight they stole bicycles and food. Not long after, the Sherman Tanks appeared. The grinding tracks made a deafening noise. Behind the tanks, the infantrymen walked with their guns in two rows behind each other. It must have been an impressive and unforgettable spectacle. Gulpen was liberated.

In many villages in South Limburg, Americans who returned from or went to the front were billeted. Also, in the streets of Gulpen and at Mathieu’s house. 

In the fall of 1944, sirens howled when aircraft flew over Gulpen again. Then, my mother sat with her parents, while her mother muttered prayers, in the propped basement (laundry kitchen) below the house. The boys were less afraid and stayed in bed. The chance that an aircraft would crash down on their house was of course not that great either. South Limburg was close to the front, which is why many Allied soldiers stayed here until March 1945.

After the defeat of the Allies in the operation “Market Garden” between the large rivers near Arnhem, where my father during the war lived, the Germans reinforced the Eifel front on the “Westwall”. They wanted to prevent a breakthrough of the Allies to the Rhine and at the same time acquire a good starting position for their planned Ardennes counteroffensive. On the 11th of October, units of the American 1st Division entered Aachen, but the Germans defended their city center and held out. That is why the Americans put an ultimatum to the Germans. “They had to evacuate the city quickly.” Hitler wanted to preserve the coronation city of Charlemagne at all costs. Then, the Americans decided to bomb the center of Aachen with heavy bombers and mortars. The bombardment lasted well into the night. My mother told me that all hell broke loose. You could even hear the loud rumbling in Gulpen and this made a big impression on everyone. One could imagine that not much of this beautiful city would remain.

 

Profession

On the 1st of March 1956 Mathieu became Chief District Officer of the Limburg Electricity Society (Dutch: Hoofddistrictbeambte van de PLEM) for the management of the connections to the electrical network at region Heerlen to Vaals. His office was in the basement of his house at Professor Cobbenhagenstraat 5 in Gulpen (see sources).

 

40th wedding

On Saturday the 26th of September 1965, Mathieu and Miep celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. The day started in the morning with a Mass in the church of Gulpen and in the afternoon there was a reception at home.

 

Death

Lung cancer was diagnosed in 1966. Mathieu liked to smoke a sigar and at the time it was not known that this was unhealthy. Mathieu was treated for this in the old hospital of Heerlen, on the ‘Groene Boord’. But without succes, on the 27th of May 1967, Mathieu (74) passed away at home in Gulpen, where he was buried a few days later.

Mathieu died just one day before the communion party of his grandson Richard (7). And, much more important, a few days before the birth of his grandson Olaf, whom he was able to take in his arms. Later this Olaf would move into his home, and with this the third generation Beckers, who live in the house at Professor Cobbenhagenstraat 5.

 

 

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