Richard Schoemaker

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.

[1][2] He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

[3] He was one of 95 people who, most posthumously, received the Dutch Cross of Resistance.

[4] The street forming the eastern border of the Delft University campus is named Schoemakerstraat after him.

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