Barend van Hemert

Barend van Hemert (10 May 1891 – January 1945) was a Dutch male footballer. He was part of the Netherlands national football team, playing 1 match on 17 May 1914.[2]

Barend van Hemert
Van Hemert in 1914
Personal information
Full name Barend Arnold van Hemert
Date of birth (1891-05-10)10 May 1891
Place of birth Dordrecht, Netherlands[1]
Date of death January 1945(1945-01-00) (aged 53)
Place of death Warsaw, Poland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Dordrechtse Football Club
International career
1914 Netherlands 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Personal life

Van Hemert also had reputation as an all-round sportsman, being an able swimmer, boxer and shot putter. He used his boxing skills helpfully while attending (not playing) a Netherlands versus Germany international football match at Leipzig in 1912, when he intervened to help extricate the Austrian referee from German supporters who had invaded the pitch protesting the referee's decision against a German player. In 1922, he set a Dutch national record for shot put by throwing it 12.21 metres.[1]

Van Hemert was professionally a leather goods merchant in Dordrecht whose business was ruined in the economic depression of the 1930s.[1] During World War II, following the occupation of his country by Nazi Germany in 1940, Van Hemert, despite his relatively late age, enlisted in the Wehrmacht and served on the Eastern Front.[1] He lost his life, aged 53, during January 1945 in the Warsaw area of Poland.

In 2013, an investigation concluded that Hemert had been conscripted, rather than joining voluntarily.[3]

See also

References
  1. Barend van Hemert at voetballegends.nl
  2. "Totaal Interlands" [Total Interlands] (in Dutch). voetbalstats.nl. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. "DPG Media Privacy Gate". myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-14.


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