14 Facts About Joop Glimmerveen

Johann Georg "Joop" Glimmerveen was a Dutch far-right politician.

Joop Glimmerveen was dismissed from this position in 1974 after legal troubles relating to his political activity.

In 1949, Joop Glimmerveen became a member of Nieuwe Koers, the youth movement of the Labour Party and he would eventually graduate to the full party, retaining his membership until 1962.

Joop Glimmerveen first came to prominence as a member of the hardline Noordbond, a neo-Nazi group with links to the likes of Colin Jordan in the United Kingdom.

Joop Glimmerveen became the new group's propaganda chief and sought to make inroads in Rotterdam following a series of race riots in the city.

Bernard Postma, NVU leader at the time, had actually been opposed to contesting the election and Joop Glimmerveen was the only candidate but his success in getting his way over the election was part of a power shift away from Postma and to Joop Glimmerveen.

Under his leadership the group became more Nazi in appearance and ideology, with Joop Glimmerveen adopting the title of 'leader' and the group holding up collaborators such as Anton Mussert and Meinoud Rost van Tonningen as inspirations.

Joop Glimmerveen spent fourteen days in prison in August 1976 for praising Hitler in the NVU journal Wij Nederland.

Joop Glimmerveen returned to the NVU in 1983 to again take a central role in the organisation.

Joop Glimmerveen retired not long afterwards although by the 1990s he was convinced to return again to the NVU by its then leaders.

Joop Glimmerveen 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.

Joop 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, Joop Glimmerveen was one of a number of Dutch extremists fined in Belgium for making the Nazi salute.

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