Edo Fimmen

Fimmen, developed a talent for languages, writing and speaking French, German and English fluently.

After meeting Lodewijk van Mierop, a member of the Dutch Reformed church and Menno Huizinga, a baptist - both theology students - he became involved in a Christian Anarchist magazine Vrede (peace) and the Rein Leven Movement, having his letters published under the pseudonym Edo.

[1] The group brought together young men of varying backgrounds, in term of education, employment, knowledge and faith, but who shared a desire for complete purity of body and soul.

[1] Fimmen had also been active in the Society for the Suppression of the Neo-Malthusian using the names Nel Jaccard and Edo for articles in Tegen Leugen en Geweld (Against Lies and Violence), edited by Van Mierop.

[1] Fimmen worked as a clerk, probably for the American Petroleum Company and during the 1903 strike joined the National Union of Commercial and Office Employees.

[3] In 1937 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Vladimír Clementis[4] In the early phases of World War II in Europe, he organized couriers for Soviet military intelligence and also assisted the British.