Tjapko van Bergen

Tjapko Antoon van Bergen (March 26, 1903 – February 2, 1944) 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.

[1] Van Bergen became a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist and later Nazi organization that collaborated with the German occupier during World War II.

He joined the Waffen-SS and attained the rank of Rottenführer; he died near Narva, in Estonia, on the Eastern Front.

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