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{{Short description|Dutch fascist political leader and Nazi collaborator}}
{{Dutch name capitalization|Van Geelkerken}}
{{family name hatnote|van Geelkerken|Geelkerken|lang=Dutch}}
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| caption       = Cornelis van Geelkerken in uniform
| office        = [[Inspector general|Inspector General]] of the [[Nederlandse Landwacht]]
| term_start    = 12 November 1943
| term_end      = 1945
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| term_end2     = 1945
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| birth_name    = Cornelis van Geelkerken
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1901|3|19|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Molenbeek-Saint-Jean]], Belgium
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1976|3|29|1901|3|19|df=y}}
| death_place   = [[Ede, Netherlands|Ede]], Netherlands
| party         = [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|National Socialist Movement]] (1931–1945)
|otherparty     = ''Nederlandsche Oranje-Nationalisten''<br>''[[H. A. Sinclair de Rochemont|Verbond van Actualisten]]''
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'''Cornelis''' "'''Kees'''" '''van Geelkerken''' ({{IPA|nl|kɔrˈneːlɪs fɑŋ ˈɣeːlkɛrkə(n)}};{{efn|''Van'' in isolation: {{IPA|nl|vɑn|}}.}} 19 March 1901 – 29 March 1976) was a Dutch [[fascist]] political leader and [[Nazi collaborator]]. 

Van Geelkerken was born in 1901 to a Dutch family in [[Molenbeek-Saint-Jean]], [[Belgium]], and grew up in [[Utrecht]]. He gravitated toward [[fascism]] in the 1920s while working as a municipal employee in [[Zeist]] and Utrecht. Van Geelkerken co-founded the [[Far-right politics|far-right]] [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands]] (NSB) with [[Anton Mussert]] in 1931. He was made the leader of the ''[[Nationale Jeugdstorm]]'', the party's youth corps.

In 1943, during the [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[Reichskommissariat Niederlande|occupation]] of the Netherlands, Van Geelkerken was appointed Inspector-General of the ''[[Nederlandse Landwacht]]'', a [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy|collaborationist]] paramilitary created by the Germans to combat the [[Dutch resistance]]. He was expelled from the NSB in early 1945 after a falling out with Mussert. After the war, he was tried in the ''[[Bijzonder Gerechtshof]]'' ("Special Court of Justice") and sentenced to [[life imprisonment]]. Geelkerken was released from prison in 1959 and died in 1976 in [[Ede, Netherlands|Ede]].

==See also==
* [[Netherlands in World War II]]
* [[Quisling]]

==Works==
* ''Voor Volk en Vaderland'', Utrecht, 1943

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
* ''Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands under German Occupation, 1940-45'' by [[Gerhard Hirschfeld]] ({{ISBN|0-85496-146-1}})
* ''Dutch Under German Occupation: 1940-1945'' by Werner Warmbrunn ({{ISBN|0-8047-0152-0}})
* ''[[The Patriotic Traitors]]: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45'' by David Littlejohn ({{ISBN|0-434-42725-X}})
* ''[[Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890]]'' edited by Philip Rees, 1991, ({{ISBN|0-13-089301-3}})


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