Tjapko van Bergen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tjapko van Bergen

Dutch rower

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1903

Place of Birth: Heiligerlee, Groningen, Netherlands

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1944

Profession: rower

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Tjapko Antoon van Bergen (March 26, 1903 in Heiligerlee, Groningen – February 2, 1944 in Krakolye, Leningrad, Russia) 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.Van Bergen became a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist and later national-socialist organization that collaborated with the German occupier during World War II.
He joined the SS and attained the rank of Rottenführer; he died near Narva, in Estonia, on the Eastern Front.