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Anton Winterink, alias TINO and TANNE during a German WT playback (Funkspiel).

Became a member of the Netherlands Communist Party in 1938 and of Goulouze's information service. In the autumn of 1938 he was handed over by Goulouze to Wenzel for Jeffremov's Belgian service and was trained in Brussels by Wenzel as a WT operator. He may have been established with a transmitter in Brussels and have achieved contact with Moscow before the end of 1940, but probably did not accomplish a regular service until the autumn of 1941. It is probably that Winterink operated from Brussels until Marakov capture in December 1941 when he fled to Amsterdam. He seems to have re-established communications with Moscow for Jeffremov service , which provided Jeffremov's only link until May 1942 when Wenzel established a line which lasted until his capture on June 30^st 1942.
By the end of August or the beginning of September 1942 Winterink's own arrest followed taht of Maurice Peper, who was courier between Winterink in Amsterdam and the survivors of the Brussels group was able to load the Germans to a rendezvous with Winterink in Amsterdam. Winterink's assistent, Luteraan and his mistress, were able to escape from the Germans for a time, but the Hilbollings, who had provided Winterink with a cover address and had housed his transmitter, were arrested simultaneously with Winterink.

Personal particulars.

Nationality: Dutch.

Date of birth: 05-11-1914 in Amsterdam.

History.

May have been brought up in Arnhem. before the war had been associated with the ROTE HILFE in Amsterdam.

Source: KV3/351

Anton Winterink (5 November 1914 in Arnhem, 5 July 1944 in Brussels) was a Dutch Communist. and a member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands. Winterink was a core member of an anti-Nazi Soviet espionage group in Belgium that came to be known as the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. He worked as a radio operator for the Soviet espionage group's that was associated with the Soviet GRU officer, Konstantin Jeffremov, in 1940. Winterink used the aliase Tino to disguise his identity. In late 1940, Winterink established an espionage organisation based in Amsterdam, that became known as Group Hilda that operated until early 1943. Winterink was arrested on 18 August 1942 by the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle in Amsterdam. After being interrogated and involved in an attempt at Funkspiel, he was shot four months later at the Tir national military firing-range in Brussels.

Around 1938, Winterink met the artist Riek de Raat, at the home of De Raat's friend, Rita Storck. Two years later, in 1940, the couple became life partner's. After the General strike of 1941, Riek de Raat and Winterink moved in together, hiding at their house at 8 Oude Looierstraat.

In 1933, Winterink was one of three officials that ran the Netherlands branch of the International Red Aid, a social organisation that helped displaced communists with food and accommodation. At the time, Winterink and many others members of the CPN were involved in raising aid money to buy food and clothing for communist refugees from Germany. In the 1930s, Winterink was an important functionary of Rote Hilfe in the Netherlands.

In late 1936 or early 1937 (sources vary), Soviet GRU agent Johann Wenzel moved to the Netherlands, where he made contact with Daniël Goulooze and they discussed plans for the construction of a radio network in the Netherlands. Goulooze was director of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) and who acted as the main liaison officer between the CPN and the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow. In late 1938, Wenzel again visited Goulooze to recruit potential candidates for work in Belgium. Goulooze recommened Winterink, who was taken to Brussels where he was trained by Wenzel in Soviet wireless telegraphy procedures and cyphers. Winterink was recruited to work in the Jeffremov group in Belgium and worked for the group for most of 1940. During that period Winterink made frequent trips back to the Netherlands where he established another espionage group. In later 1940, he was ordered to return the Netherlands and take charge of the network that operated under the name of Group Hilda. The most important members of the group were Maurice Peper who was the main courier between Winterink in Amsterdam and Jeffremov in Brussels, Adam Nagel and Wilhlem Voegeler who were radio operators along with Jakob Hillbolling, an agent who organised safehouse and accommodation and Hendrika Smith, the liaison to the Communist Party of the Netherlands. During the whole period of its existence, Group Hilda was controlled by Jeffremov in Brussels. From late 1940 to mid-1942, Group Hilda supported a two-way radio link with Moscow via the Soviet embassy in London with the help three radios.

On 18 or 19 August 1942 (sources vary), Winterink was arrested by the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle at a cafe in Amsterdam. Nine members of the group with two remaining radios were not discovered and continued to work. A total of 17 people from Winterink's group were arrested. Winterink was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp (Kriegs Wehrmacht prison) in Brussels, before being sent to Fort Breendonk. He was interrogated for two weeks by the Sonderkommando in Brussels, after which he agreed to work for the Abwehr. Winterink took part in a Funkspiel operation. His station, that was known as Beam Tanne, began transmitting in September 1943. In March 1944, Winterink's Funkspiel operation was abandoned. The German funkspiel operation was largely a failure (Members of the Hilde network had informed Moscow about his arrest by radio). Four months later on the 5 July 1944, Winterink was shot at the Tir national firing-range in Brussels. where he was buried anonymously. The grave site is single grave 312 in row II.

Source: Wikipedia.

Winterink (Derwin), Antonie (Antonie, Tino), Arnhem 5-11-1914, Reiziger
Woonachtig: Boterdiepstraat 11 II Amsterdam
Lijst van de Centrale Inlichtingendienst: Boekhouder. Communist. Secretaris afdeling Amsterdam en lid landelijk bestuur Liga tegen Koloniale Onderdrukking en Imperialisme (1928). M.A.S. V.V.S.U.
Hij was gehuwd met Hendrika Geertruida Winterink-De Raat
Gearresteerd: 18-08-1942 te Amsterdam
Gevangenschap in: Weteringschans, Saint-Gilles gevangenis Brussel, Fort Breendonk, Rheinbach, Keulen, Brussel
Overleden: Brussel 06-07-1944 gefusilleerd

Opmerkingen: Hij kwam in 1935 naar Amsterdam, waar hij de verzorging van illegale politieke vluchtelingen voor zijn rekening nam. Zijn schuilnaam was Tino. Hij werd door Johann Wenzel opgeleid tot marconist. Hij was een van de twee leiders van de Nederlandse afdeling van het ‘Rode orkest‘, dat naar Moskou seinde. Door gebruik te maken van informatie afkomstig van Nederlandse arbeiders die in Duitsland te werk gesteld waren en zo nu en dan met verlof terug kwamen, kon hij belangwekkende informatie over Duitsland naar Moskou zenden. Hij kon door de Sicherheitsdienst gearresteerd worden doordat de gearresteerde koerier Maurice Peper tussen hem en de leiding in Brussel hem via een tref in Amsterdam in de val liet lopen. (De beschrijving in Wikipedia is grotendeels onzin.)

Source: Rudi Harthoorn.