Adriaan van Hees

Adriaan Nicolaas Johan van Hees (3 May 1910 – 2 December 1976) was a Dutch actor and member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB).

He quit professional acting to join the NSB, giving speeches and overseeing the organization's theater division, arguing that the change he thought necessary in Dutch drama had to come from political revolution.

[1] In July 1933 van Hees toured the Dutch West Indies with the company De Dietsche Spelers and from 1933 to 1935 he performed in various plays, but he quit the theater in 1935 to focus exclusively on his party work for the NSB.

He was appointed leader of the film department of the Nationale Werknemers Vereniging, later called Nederlands Arbeidsfront [nl], a national-socialist union.

[1] On 11 July 1941 he married the youngest daughter of Barthold Arnold van der Sluijs [nl],[6][7] an NSB member who later became mayor of Zaandam and then Alkmaar, and they had a son the next year.

[8] In July 1942 he began working for the Nederlandsche Omroep,[9] the Dutch media outlet installed by the occupying Germans in 1940 on the model of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft.

[1] On the recommendation of Hanns Albin Rauter, SS and police leader in the Netherlands, he asked Anton Mussert to designate him an "honorary Aryan".