Barend van Hemert
{{short description|Dutch footballer}}
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|name = Barend van Hemert
|image = Barend van Hemert.jpg
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|fullname = Barend Arnold van Hemert
|birth_date = {{birth date|1891|05|10|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Dordrecht, Netherlands[http://www.voetballegends.nl/profile.php?id=75 Barend van Hemert] at voetballegends.nl
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|death_place = Warsaw, Poland
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Barend Arnold van Hemert (10 May 1891 – between 5–17 January 1945) was a Dutch male footballer. He was part of the Netherlands national football team, playing 1 match on 17 May 1914.{{cite web|url=http://www.voetbalstats.nl/caps.php|title=Totaal Interlands|trans-title=Total Interlands|publisher=voetbalstats.nl|accessdate=30 April 2016|language=Dutch}}
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.
Van Hemert was professionally a leather goods merchant in Dordrecht whose business was ruined in the economic depression of the 1930s.
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 in 1941 and served on the Eastern Front. He lost his life, aged 53, between 5 and 17 January 1945 in the Warsaw area of Poland. In 2013, an investigation concluded that Hemert had been conscripted, rather than joining voluntarily.{{Cite web| title = Voetbal tijdens de oorlog: D.F.C uit Dordt is fameus en Unitas uit Gorinchem op ramkoers met NSB - Foto| work = Algemeen Dagblad| access-date = 2023-11-07| url = https://www.ad.nl/rivierenland/voetbal-tijdens-de-oorlog-d-f-c-uit-dordt-is-fameus-en-unitas-uit-gorinchem-op-ramkoers-met-nsb~ad6de0ab/163130529/| language = nl}}
In 1923 Van Hemert married Petronella Jacoba Margaretha Hofman (1903-1934), from whom he divorced in 1930.
See also
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Category:Netherlands men's international footballers
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Category:Dutch military personnel killed in World War II
Category:German Army personnel killed in World War II
Category:20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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