Richard Schoemaker

{{Short description|Dutch fencer (1886–1942)}}

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| death_place = Sachsenhausen, Germany

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Richard Leonard Arnold Schoemaker (5 October 1886 – 3 May 1942) was a Dutch Olympic fencer, engineer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, professor of architecture at Bandung Institute of Technology and Delft University of Technology, and leader of a resistance group during World War II, for which he was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.{{Cite journal |last=Bijkerk |first=Tony |date=Autumn 1994 |title=Just a Name |url= https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/3089/rec/1 | journal= Citius, Altius, Fortius | volume= 2|issue=3|pages=27–29 |access-date = 21 March 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22982 |title=Richard Schoemaker |work=Olympedia |access-date=25 March 2021}}

He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/richard-schoemaker-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418055220/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/richard-schoemaker-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Richard Schoemaker Olympic Results |access-date=5 April 2010 |work=sports-reference.com}} He was one of 95 people who, most posthumously, received the Dutch Cross of Resistance.Erik Müller, [http://onderscheidingen.nl/decorandi/wo2/dec_s03.html Schoemaker, prof. ir. Richard Leonard Arnold] at onderscheidingen.nl The street forming the eastern border of the Delft University campus is named Schoemakerstraat after him.René & Peter van der Krogt, [http://www.stratenvandelft.nl/straat.php?id=Schoemakerstraat Schoemakerstraat] at stratenvandelft.nl