Tjapko van Bergen

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	Van Bergen and Dusseldorp capsize in the 1928 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	26 March 1903; Heiligerlee, Groningen, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Died	2 February 1944 (aged 40); Krakolye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
Military career
Allegiance	Germany
Service/branch	Waffen-SS
Years of service	194?–1944
Rank	Rottenführer
Battles/wars	World War II Eastern Front †; ;
Sport
Sport	Rowing

Tjapko Antoon van Bergen (March 26, 1903 in Heiligerlee, Groningen – February 2, 1944 in Krakolye, Leningrad, Russia) was a Dutch rower. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the men's coxed pair with Cornelis Dusseldorp; their boat capsized in the first round and they did not finish.^[1]

Van Bergen became a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist and later Nazi organization that collaborated with the German occupier during World War II. He joined the SS and attained the rank of Rottenführer; he died near Narva, in Estonia, on the Eastern Front.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ "Tjapko van Bergen". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
^ "Death notice". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 6 May 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
^ "Death notice". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 13 May 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
^ "Death notice". Het nationale dagblad. 8 May 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
^ McCrery, Nigel (2021). The Undying Flame: Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War. Pen and Sword Military. pp. 237–238. ISBN 1526740656.

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