Walraven van Hall

Deceased Person

1906 – 1945

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Who was Walraven van Hall?

Wallraven van Hall was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Having been born in a well known influential Dutch family, Van Hall initially studied to become an officer in the merchant marine. However after having worked for some years as third mate he was rejected because of his eyesight after passing the exam for second mate. Not being able to work in the merchant marine, he moved to New York in 1929. His brother, the future mayor of Amsterdam, Gijs van Hall, who already worked at a bank, helped him get a job there with a Wall Street firm. Having thus been introduced to banking, he returned to the Netherlands and became a banker and stockbroker.

After the Germans invaded Holland in 1940, a fund was established to help families of merchant-sailors. Van Hall was asked to help set up the Amsterdam chapter together with his brother Gijs. Because of his banking experience, he was able to provide funding with the help of guarantees by the Dutch government in London. Soon the Germans began taking anti-Jewish and forced labour measures and resistance against these measures increased. Van Hall expanded his fund-raising activities for all kinds of resistance groups and he became known as the banker of the resistance.

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Born
1906
Amsterdam
Died
Feb 12, 1945
Haarlem

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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