Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Florence Sophie “Florrie”.

Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Florence (Florrie), born 14-11-1914 in Amsterdam, as daughter of Gustav Adolph Heubel (1875-1952), banker at Jan Kol & Co (family affiliated with the Utrechtse Bank Vlaer & Kol) and son of Anna Elisabeth Kol, and Cornelie van Haren Noman (1883-1949). The family had four children, in addition to Florentine (also called Florrie) daughter Annie (born 1906) and sons Dolf (1904) and Wim (1910). Florrie Heubel grew up in Hilversum.  When the young princess Juliana

visited Hilversum, Florentine Heubel and her brother Willem Johannes “Wim”.Heubel  were asked to play a game of tennis against the princess. In the 1930s, Florrie and Wim Heubel became active in the Nationale Jeugdstorm, the youth movement of the National Socialist Movement (NSB). and national socialist counterpart of the boy scouts. She then studied biology at Utrecht University, with an interest in animal psychology. She became a Dutch National Socialist NSB member, the Netherlands Socialistic Movement. The National Socialist Movement (NSB), founded in 1931, was an authoritarian, anti-parliamentary, far-right party that aimed for National Socialist rule. She also believed that there should be a Greater Dutch Empire, which would also include Flanders. Under German influence, the party took on an anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) character.

Florence was the wife of Meinoud Rost van Tonningen frontman during World War II and remained after the death of her husband in 1945, a national socialism in her life support and publicize. That is why she was known as the Black widow. Florrie Heubel  in the thirty years and she studied at the Utrecht University, with the interest animal psychology. In the summer of 1936, Heubel stayed in connection with her study some time in Berlin. Florry was impressed by Adolf Hitler (did you know), the camaraderie, discipline and passionate of the Nazi movement. A year later she made together with Wim a trip to Dutch East Indies, a trip to her oldest brother Dolf who worked as an agricultural engineer. When she was back in the Netherlands she left the NSB because in her opinion the party was not consistent enough against the Jews. She also found that party leader Anton Mussert,

shared her concerns not enough. Mid- 1939 she met through her brother Meinoud Rost van Tonningen.

Anton Adriaan Mussert  11-05-1894 – 07-05-1946, age 51) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. Mussert collaborated with the German occupation government, but was granted little actual power and held the nominal title of Leider van het Nederlandsche Volk (“Leader of the Dutch People”) from 1942 onwards. In May 1945, as the war came to an end in Europe, Mussert was captured and arrested by Allied forces. He was charged and convicted of treason, and was executed 0n-07-05-1946, age 52.

During the German invasion in Netherlands (see Jan Ackermans, the cousin of my mother, who was killed, age 32, at the Grebbeberg line in May 1940 by the SS during the German attack on Holland.

on the 10-05-1940. In connection with her studies, Florence Heubel stayed for some time in Berlin during the summer of 1936. She was impressed by Adolf Hitler and the “camaraderie, discipline and commitment” of the Nazi movement. So Florence “Florrie” Heubel was in Berlin, with Gauleiter was Josef Goebbels (did you know). There she heard of the German invasion, which they would later explain as’ the Germans wanted a passage through the Netherlands to be closer near England. On 21-12-1949 she married Rost van Tonningen

 with the permission of SS Reichsleiter,  Heinrich Himmler. She got three children, three sons, oldest Grimbert 1941, who’s godfather was SS Obergruppenführer Karl, Friedrich, Otto, Karele, “Wolffie”, Wolff,  second son Ebbe 1943 , who wrote a book about his parents “No man’s land” and Herr in 1945. Her youngest son Herre was born on 28-04-1945, the same day as her brother Wim died, age 41, fighting with the Dutch Landstorm in the SS, near Elst, At that time Heubel with her children was in Terschelling. Shortly afterwards she fled to Goslar in Germany, where her parents stayed too and where the family had some possessions. Husband Meinoud was captured by the Canadian Allies on 08-05-1945 and imprisoned in the Scheveningen prison where he committed suicide by jumping from the balustrade. Florrie Heubel always contested that her husband committed suicide and was convinced that he was murdered. Probably he knew to much of black money transactions of prominent persons, as the president of the Dutch Bank. After the death of her husband, Rost van Tonningen remained active in several extreme right-wing movements. Initially they lived in poverty and she was like many former National Socialists placed in receivership. Anton Leo de Block her curator, Registrar of the First Chamber of the Governement, placed the three sons of Rost van Tonningen under guardianship of her brother-in-law, Nico. He was Queen Juliana’s Adjutant and later Grand Master. Her whole life would be marked by the battle to rehabilitation of her husband. In 1952 she left her home in the Hague and went to a villa in Velp. The villa bore the name “Ben Trovato”.  Mrs Rost van Tonningen saw in this name a sign from above, because the first two letters of the surname of her husband were in there. (Rost van Tonningen. In 1996 she already had bought a grave on the cemetery Heiderust in Rheden and a tombstone with her name, date of birth and the legend’ The Truth makes free’. The place was controversial even before the purchase; local residents feared that the tomb could be a right extremists attraction.

Anton Leo de Block (Amersfoort, 19-06-1901 – The Hague, 15-06-1986, age 84) was a Dutch lawyer. De Block was the son of a General. He was a member of the RKSP, Roman Catholic State Party and after 22-12-1945 of the KVP, Catholic People’s Party. He married Eugenie Maria Catharina Regout in The Hague on 09-07-1929. In 1935 he became, as the first Catholic, clerk of the Senate, and later also extraordinary professor of constitutional and administrative law in Tilburg. In 1957 he transferred to the Council of State. He ended his career as acting vice president of the Council of State. He acted, among other things, as curator of Florrie Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, widow of Meinoud Rost van Tonningen.He was a brother of Leo de Block, Minister of Economic Affairs from 1967-1970; he was also the son-in-law of minister Louis Regout and a brother-in-law of the professor of international law Robert Regout S.J. , who was killed by the Nazis in Dachau. In fact, Father Robert Regout SJ had never been forgotten: not by his fellow brothers and not by his students. Only 44 years old, the sympathetic student pastor and professor of international law from Nijmegen fell into the hands of the Germans in July 1940 and only escaped after his death in Dachau on 28-12-1942. But it had to be another sixty years before his greatness rose from the shadows of memory, age 46

Departure of the Staatsspoor.Johannes Hendrik “Henk” Feldmeijer  and SS Obergruppenfuhrer and the highest SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands  Johan Baptist Albin “Hanns Rauter during the farewell. To their left Wim Heubel, with standard number 3 on the collar. Rauter was Feldmeijer’s immediate superior.

The Dutch SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Heubel, Willem Johannes “Wim”. here in the middle with Reichscommissar in the Netherland, Arthur Seyss-Inquart

the brother of Florrie Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, wife of NSB leader Meinoud Rost van Tonningen was a Nazi fan too. He married nurse Ans van den Bergen during the war. A daughter was born from this marriage and Willem “Wim” Heubel was killed on 28-04-1945, age 34, at Elst during a fight with the Canadians.

She maintained lifelong contacts with many prominent ex-Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, such as the French professor Robert Faurisson; a French linguist who caused much controversy with articles in which he continued to deny the existence of the gas chambers in the Nazi concentration camps. He also questioned whether there was a systematic massacre of European Jews in World War II using poison gas.David Irving; Artur Axmann; Gudrun Himmler (daughter of Heinrich Himmler); Ilse Pröhl  (widow of Rudolf Hess); Gertrud and Arthur Seyss-Inquart; Erich Priebke; Miguel Joaquín Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernández,  known as Miguel Serrano (10-09-1917 – 28-02-2009, age 91), was a Chilean diplomat, writer, occultist, and fascist activist. A Nazi sympathiser in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he later became a prominent figure in the neo-Nazi movement Matt Koehl, commander of The New Order; Thies Christophersen; Léon Degrelle; Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld; Marie Adelheid was also a first cousin once-removed of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911-2004) who, in 1937 became the prince consort of Juliana, future Queen of the Netherlands. Bernhard was a member of the NSDAP turned out years later. Paula Hitler;”Frau Wolf” Richard Edmonds; Hanns Albin Rauter; Franz von Papen;  Hjalmar Schacht; Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel;  24-04-1939 – 05-08-2017, age 78) was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer of Holocaust denial literature. He was jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature “likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group”, and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, for overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of “inciting racial hatred”. He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000, General Otto Ernst Remer; Manfred Roeder; (20-08-1900 – 18-10-1971, age 71) was a military judge in Nazi Germany. Serving on the highest wartime court, he led the investigation and examinations and later the prosecution of the German Resistance group, the Red Orchestra (German: Die Rote Kapelle,( see Hans and Sophie Scholl)  it was known in Germany, was the name given by the Abwehr Section III.F to anti-Nazi resistance workers in August 1941..Roedere shared responsibility for the dozens of death sentences handed down by the Reich court martial to Red Orchestra members. After Germany’s defeat in World War II, there were attempts by survivors, family and the U.S. Army to investigate the prosecutions of Red Orchestra members and others, but Roeder was never convicted of any malfeasance or crime because the Allies thought it more expedient to use his ‘expertise’ to hunt down the Red Orchestra members a second time than to mete out justice for victims of the Nazis; this time to aid the Western Allies with information about the Russians in the nascent cold war. Further  Colin Colin Campbell Jordan; (19-06-1923 – 09-04- 2009, age 85) was a leading figure in post-war neo-Nazism in Great Britain. In the far-right circles of the 1960s, Jordan represented the most explicitly “Nazi” inclination in his open use of the styles and symbols of Nazi Germany. Through his leadership of organisations such as the National Socialist Movement and the World Union of National Socialists, Jordan advocated a pan-Aryan “Universal Nazism”. Although later unaffiliated with any political party, Jordan remained an influential voice on the British far right. Udo Walendy; (21-01-1927 – 17-11-2022, age 95) was a German Holocaust denier. Like Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, he disputed Germany’s guilt for the Second World War. Horst Mahler ; (born 23-01-1936) is a German former lawyer and political activist. He once was a far-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction who later became a Maoist, before switching to neo-Nazism. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Since 2003, he has repeatedly been convicted of Volksverhetzung (“incitement of popular hatred”) and Holocaust denial, and he served much of a twelve-year prison sentence,  members of the Vlaams Blok; and many others.

Death and burial ground of Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Florence Sophie “Florrie”.

Florentine Heuben who always denied the holocaust, died on 24-03-2007 at the old age 92, decay of forces in her home of Waasmunster, (Belgium). On 30-03-2007 she was privately buried in her grave in Rheden. The municipality of Rheden decided to keep the timing of the funeral secret to prevent a massive influx of both national-socialist public and the opponents. For the funeral were held by the municipality meetings with concerned local residents.

    Her three children-who always had taken away the thought of their mother, asked others to leave their mother in the cemetery. Constant Kusters, leader of the Dutch peoples-Union (NCE), said this: “Her children can get the plague, because they are always against us and their mother.”