Adriaan Nicolaas Johan van Hees (3 May 1910 â€" 2 December 1976) was a
Dutch actor and member of the National Socialist Movement in the
Netherlands (NSB). Van Hees was trained in Amsterdam and Germany, and
spent a few years in theater and film. He quit professional acting to
join the NSB, giving speeches and overseeing the organization's
theater division, arguing that the change he thought necessary in
Dutch drama had to come from political revolution. He became depressed
and suicidal when he discovered he was part Jewish; still, he tried to
join the SS but was denied. After the war, he was banned from the
stage for ten years, and sentenced to five years in prison.Van Hees
was born in Rotterdam, the son of a theater director from Haarlem. He
attended the Theaterschool in Amsterdam from 1927 to 1929, but left
for Germany, claiming the quality of education was inferior in
Amsterdam. In Germany, he attended drama schools in Düsseldorf and
Berlin. From 1931 to 1934 he worked under Cor van der Lugt Melsert
with the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch Hofstad Tooneel, a company that also
featured Piet Rienks and Annie van Duyn. After an argument with van
der Lugt, he left for Berlin again in March 1933. When he returned in
May 1933 he joined the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
(NSB), and argued that the drastic improvement necessary in Dutch
theater could only come about after a revolutionary change in Dutch
politics and society.In July 1933 van Hees toured the Dutch West
Indies with the company De Dietsche Spelers and from 1933 to 1935 he
performed in various plays, but he quit the theater in 1935 to focus
exclusively on his party work for the NSB. He suffered from severe
depression when he found out, in 1934, that his grandfather on his
mother's side was Jewish, making him one quarter Jewish under the
Nuremberg Laws. He felt he suffered from a split personality, being so
fully convinced of the racial politics of which he himself was the
intended victim. He contemplated suicide to escape what he called "the
conflict of the bastard", but after the war the judge who presided
over his case sneered that this was nothing but "third-rate
theatrics".He performed in a few pre-war movies, and participated in
theatrical events organized by radio stations. For the NSB paper Het
Nationale Dagblad he wrote theater reviews in which he connected
theater with national-socialism. In 1937â€"1938 he did a
fourteen-month tour of the Dutch East Indies with Cor Ruys's company. Adriaan van Hees Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter