Max Behretz
Max Behretz was a radio technician in Roermond. Through a journalist he came into contact with agents of the British and Czechoslovakian intelligence services respectively. From 1939 to May 1940 he collected all kinds of information for both services about the military situation in the Dutch-German border area.
Godsweerdersingel Roermond
Max Behretz was chairman of the Roermond branch of the SDAP until mid-1940. He married in 1937. In 1938 he moved to the adjoining municipality of Maasniel, where he lived at the address Broekhin 152B. From 5 May 1939 he lived again in Roermond at the address Godsweerdersingel 48.
Plötzensee
During the war Max Behretz was arrested in Eindhoven in connection with illegal activities. He was taken to Cologne via the Marechaussee barracks in Eindhoven and arrived in Berlin in July 1942. In September or October 1942 he wrote to his family that he expected to be shot. On 24 September 1942 Max Behretz was executed in the Plötzensee prison in Berlin.
Max Behretz
- Date of birth: 22-01-1913
- Date of death: 24-09-1942
- Place of death: Berlijn
- Cause of death: Jewish