Pedigree of De Jong, Koelé families » Martinus van der Zwan (1894-1945)
Personal data Martinus van der Zwan
- He was born on August 9, 1894 in Scheveningen, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, NLD.Source 1
Tijdstip: 11:00
- Birth registration on August 10, 1894.Source 1
- Occupations:
- starting around 1918 zeevisscher.Source 2
- until March 3, 1945 concierge.Source 3
- until March 3, 1945 concierge, kantoorloper van een notariskantoor.Source 4
- Fact: (vermelding) Oorlogsslachtoffer.Source 4
Slachtoffer van het bombardement op Bezuidenhout, Den Haag.
NL-HaHGA 0610 01 inventaris 2286 Gemeentebestuur 1945 aug schouwarts.
De Residentiebode 12-3-1945. Dit slachtoffer is opgenomen in het 3 maart 1945 Bezuidenhout bombardement register door Stichting WO2 Sporen komende uit onderzoek naar Haagse slachtoffers uit de 2e Wereldoorlog. - Resident until March 3, 1945: Korte Voorhout 12B, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, NLD.Source 4
- He died on March 3, 1945 in Scheveningen, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, NLD, he was 50 years old.Source 3
Overleden op 3 maart 1945, aangifte op 20 augustus 1945.
Oorzaak: Het bombardement op het Bezuidenhout in Den Haag door de Britse Royal Air Force
Tijdstip: 08:30
- Death registration on August 20, 1945.Source 3
- A child of Johannes Martinus van der Zwan and Maria Keus
- This information was last updated on July 16, 2025.
Household of Martinus van der Zwan
He is married to Immetje den Heijer.
They got married on May 8, 1918 at 's-Gravenhage, ZH, NLD, he was 23 years old.Source 2
Second World War victim
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Sources
Geboorteakten 's-Gravenhage 1894 akte 3298*, https://hdl.handle.net/21.12124/DA4D1C268B894674AF0C04531DBF1AD0
Huwelijksakten 's-Gravenhage 1918 akte A482, https://hdl.handle.net/21.12124/1B39A0770C574975AFCFE68EEA5C13A8
Overlijdensakten 's-Gravenhage 1945 akte A3894*, https://hdl.handle.net/21.12124/2A23A6CBE8444F9D9AD67DE002E8CF9A
Nederlandse Oorlogsgravenstichting, https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/personen/229347/martinus-van-der-zwan
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Historical events
Birthday August 9, 1894
- The temperature on August 9, 1894 was about 15.7 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
- May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
- July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
- August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
- December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
Day of marriage May 8, 1918
- The temperature on May 8, 1918 was between 7.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
- May 2 » General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
- July 17 » The RMSCarpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SMU-55; five lives are lost.
- August 2 » The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
- October 29 » The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
- November 9 » Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
- November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
Day of death March 3, 1945
- The temperature on March 3, 1945 was between 0.6 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
- In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
- January 1 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
- February 23 » World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
- April 13 » World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
- April 23 » World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous.
- August 6 » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
- November 27 » CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
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