Richard Schoemaker

Richard Leonard Arnold Schoemaker (5 October 1886 – 3 May 1942) was a Dutch Olympic fencer, engineer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, professor of architecture at Bandung Institute of Technology and Delft University of Technology, and leader of a resistance group during World War II, for which he was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.^[1][2]

Richard Schoemaker

Prof. ir. R.L.A. Schoemaker
Personal information
Born	(1886-10-05)5 October 1886 Roermond, Netherlands
Died	3 May 1942(1942-05-03) (aged 55) Sachsenhausen, Germany
Sport
Sport	Fencing

He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[3] He was one of 95 people who, most posthumously, received the Dutch Cross of Resistance.^[4] The street forming the eastern border of the Delft University campus is named Schoemakerstraat after him.^[5]