Hermannus Reydon

Hermannus Reydon (6 December 1896 – 24 August 1943) was a Dutch journalist and Nazi collaborator. He served as the second Secretary-General of the Department of Public Information and the Arts, which had been established by the civilian regime installed in the Netherlands by Nazi Germany during the occupation. Born in Voorschoten, Reydon received a law degree in Utrecht. He joined the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), and through the 1930s edited its publications Volk en Vaderland and Het Nationale Dagblad. Imprisoned shortly before Nazi Germany's invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, he was released by the Nazi regime. He was involved in several NSB organs, ultimately being installed as secretary-general of the Department of Public Information on 1 February 1943. His tenure was brief, as he and his wife Wilhelmina were attacked by the CS-6 cell of the Dutch resistance on 9 February; she died in the attack, while he died of his wounds more than six months later. More than fifty people were killed by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassinations of the Reydons and General Hendrik Seyffardt.