Johannes Post

Dutch farmer and Anti-Revolutionary Party local politician, who became a heroic resistance fighter during WW2.

Johannes Post was the youngest child of the farmer and reformed local ARP politician Jan Wolters Post (1 Sep 1863, Kerkenveld - 10 Oct 1942, Hollandscheveld) en Trijntje Tempen (11 Oct 1865, Hijken - 16 Feb 1937, Hollandscheveld). On 30 April 1887 they married and between 1888 and 1906 they got eleven children.

He followed one year MULO secondary education, then started working on the farm of his father. On 26 November 1929 Post married Dina Salomons (3 July 1903, Nieuw Buinen - 26 Febr 1991, Rijnsburg) in Borger, that year he started a farm for himself. He also engaged in the marketing of poultry, eggs and horses. They got nine children,of which their first child Jan Wolter (13 Oct 1930 - 20 Oct 1930, Nieuwlande) died after a week.

He joined like his father the Calvinistic Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), and became in 1935 alderman of Oosterhesselen. He was known as a hard-working, intelligent, non-conformist and highly principled personality, who was not afraid of taking risks. But he was also member of the Calvinistic Reformed Church and the Christian Anti-Revolutionary Party, who were fiercely opposed to communists and anarchists. In the dualistic Calvinistic view G'd' will has ordained his Universal government / will on earth. So oppression against it, as Isaiah proclaimed was a suicidal step.

When the German invasion started on 10 May 1940, he was shocked and wanted to fight. But the Dutch capitulation followed soon after the bombardment of the medieval city of Rotterdam (14 May 1940, 13h30). Unlike the Dutch communists, anarchists and left wing intelligentsia, who started the resistance movement soon, he was not on the Nazi death list. Even most Dutch Jews, had no idea of what was coming, as the Holocaust was implemented gradually by the Nazi's, in small steps, to prevent upheaval.