Daniël de Blocq van Scheltinga

Jonkheer Daniël de Blocq van Scheltinga (Velp, 23 November 1903 – Düsseldorf, 26 June 1962) was a Dutch Nazi politician.

[1] Through his marriage in 1928 with a daughter of the Prussian family von der Goltz, whose father had been a general in World War I, he became interested in Nazism and Adolf Hitler's policy of rearmament.

Although he was a very dedicated and loyal member of the party, he gained the nickname Dom Daantje (literally: Dumb Danny) for his naivety.

[2] At the time, this post was considered important because of the large number of German officials and high-ranking NSB party members living in the municipality.

After the assassination of the Nazi collaborator Hendrik Seyffardt, de Blocq van Scheltinga ordered a few dozen young to be arrested.