Fred Ormskerk

{{short description|Surinamese military leader}}

{{use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| image = F. Ormskerk.jpg

| caption = Standard-bearer adjutant F.F. Ormskerk on Independence Day, November 25, 1975

| name = Fred Ormskerk

| birth_name = Frederik Ferdinand Ormskerk

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|4|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Nickerie, Surinam

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|5|1|1923|4|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Paramaribo, Suriname

}}

Frederik Ferdinand "Fred" Ormskerk (26 April 1923 – 1 May 1980) was a Surinamese military leader. He was awarded many honors for his military services in Indonesia and Korea. After a KNIL training at Camp Casino, Australia, he arrived in Batavia (now Jakarta). There, he became a soldier in the newly formed Korps Speciale Troepen (KST), led by Captain Westerling. He was nicknamed Bikkel, which means "stud".{{Cite web|title= Leesfragment: Bikkel|url=http://www.athenaeum.nl/leesfragment/rudie-kagie-bikkel/|publisher=Rudie Kagie}}

In February 1980, the coup d'état led by Dési Bouterse took place in Suriname. Ormskerk allegedly launched a failed counter-coup on April 30 and afterwards was arrested, tortured and killed.{{Cite web|title=De Meimoord|url=http://www.vn.nl/Archief/Politiek/Artikel-Politiek/De-Meimoord-1.htm|publisher=vn.nl|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311075217/http://www.vn.nl/Archief/Politiek/Artikel-Politiek/De-Meimoord-1.htm |archivedate=2013-03-11 |date=December 12, 2012}}