Willem van Heemskerck Düker was born in Hilversum on November 25, 1910. His mother Cornelia Pliester married on August 18, 1904 with the pharmacist and chemist Arnold Johan van Heemskerck Düker. William continued the pharmacy of his father, but had to sell because he was not qualified. He then went in 1931 Forestry and Livestock study at the Agricultural University in Wageningen. He lived on Stationsstraat 11 and Eekmolenweg. That same year he became a member of the National Socialist Movement (NSB) in Wageningen, where he held various positions. At its founding in 1934 he joined the National Youth Storm, the youth organization of the NSB. Shortly after graduating in 1939 as an agricultural engineer his father died. In 1940, he studied language and literature in Leiden. He maintained contacts with leading folklorists as the Leiden professor of ancient Germanic J. de Vries, the secretary of the Folklore Commission of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (Academy) P.J. Meertens, director of the Open Air Museum in Arnhem A. Erven Thorns and his successor D.J. van der Ven. During the war Van Heemskerck Düker photographed as Victor Meeussen for 'Volksche Werkgemeenschap (cultural department of the SS). The Volksche Werkgemeenschap came from the association "Der Fathers Inheritance" which was founded on July 9, 1934 with the aim of promoting interest in the typical 'Volkscheigen' language and culture. In September 1940 the association was ordered by the German SS on the Volksche Working Community with the aim of "[...] to bring the Dutch people the People Schei Gene, and make it familiar with the Great Germanic thought." Van Heemskerck Düker belonged to the group Feldmeijer who inaugurated the Great Germanic thought. On taking over Van Heemskerck Düker was automatically a member of the Dutch SS, almost directly head of the Photo... (Google translation of http://collectie.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/nl/de-fotografen/weergave/record?id=9bde548e-a24a-24a0-754a-f099c389f3dd) undefined

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