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Mar 26, 1903 Heiligerlee, Groningen, Netherlands Died on 02 Feb 1944 (aged 40)
Dutch rower
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About Tjapko Van Bergen
- Tjapko Antoon van Bergen (March 26, 1903 in Heiligerlee, Groningen – February 2, 1944 in Krakolye, Leningrad, Russia) was a Dutch rower.
- He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the men's coxed pair with Cornelis Dusseldorp; their boat capsized in the first round and they did not finish.Van Bergen became a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist and later national-socialist organization that collaborated with the German occupier during World War II.
- He joined the SS and attained the rank of Rottenführer; he died near Narva, in Estonia, on the Eastern Front.
