Joop Glimmerveen

Johann Georg "Joop" Glimmerveen (14 November 1928 – 25 December 2022) was a Dutch far-right politician. He was active on the far-right from 1971.

Early life Born in Utrecht, Glimmerveen was educated in Hilversum and Amsterdam before starting work in 1945 in the salary office of the Calve-Delft company. In 1951 he joined the United Nations forces as a volunteer in the Korean War and following his service was employed at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe offices. He was dismissed from this position in 1974 after legal troubles relating to his political activity. He became the new group's propaganda chief and sought to make inroads in Rotterdam following a series of race riots in the city. Postma stood down as leader in October 1974 with Glimmerveen replacing him.

Under his leadership the group became more Nazi in appearance and ideology, with Glimmerveen adopting the title of 'leader' and the group holding up collaborators such as Anton Mussert and Meinoud Rost van Tonningen as inspirations. Eventually, Glimmerveen praised Adolf Hitler for his skill as a leader. He spent fourteen days in prison in August 1976 for praising Hitler in the NVU journal Wij Nederland. During an interview, Glimmerveen remarked that all Surinamese in the Netherlands should go back to Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America, and all Jews must go to Israel. In response, he was arrested and sentenced to six weeks in prison for making racist and anti-Semitic remarks.

Subsequent activity and death Glimmerveen retired not long afterwards although by the 1990s he was convinced to return again to the NVU by its then leaders. He helped the group build links with Belgian and German neo-Nazi groups, although he fell out with the leadership and again quit the NVU in 2000.

Glimmerveen was convicted in 2003 of making pro-Nazi speeches at a CP'86 rally seven years earlier and was sentenced to four months in prison. In 2007, Glimmerveen was one of a number of Dutch extremists fined in Belgium for making the Nazi salute.

Glimmerveen died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 94.