Hans Hoets


Pieter Johannes Hoets was a Dutch Engelandvaarder, an active Dutch resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WW-II.

World War II

After a failed attempt to sail to England on June 19, 1940, he eventually left the country from Delfzijl on October 13, 1944. In Stockholm he signed up as a volunteer and was assigned to the Dutch Intelligence in Stockholm to interrogate new arrivals.
After he arrived in England, he served in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.

Post-war

After the war he immigrated to the US, where he studied US law at Yale University, joined The Coca-Cola Company where he became Chief Counsel for Coca Cola Europe, and later joined New York-based Reid & Priest, a law firm with 160 attorneys founded in 1935 with an office in Washington, D.C.. Hoets authored five historic books, including ''De Yale Connection. De jacht op de Marcos-miljarden en het Zwitsers bankgeheim''

Death

Hoets died on August 28, 2014, in Stamford, Connecticut, the United States.

Military and Knight's Orders