Editing Vaders (section)

== Members ==
The following members of the five founding families are documented as fathers or uncles of members of De Vrienden.

=== Noord family ===
* [[Angelo van Noord]] (born 1905) – Father of [[Angelo Noord]], the first member of De Vrienden. He served as a German military officer during the Second World War, commanded formations of the [[Brandenburgers (Nazi Germany)|Brandenburg]] unit and reached the rank of Oberstleutnant. After the war, he was detained and investigated by Dutch authorities before the case was closed in 1950.<ref name="angelo-personal"/><ref name="angelo-military"/>

=== Paap family ===
* [[Martin Paap (father)|Martin Paap I]] (1905–2025) – Father of [[Martin Paap]], the second member of De Vrienden. He served as an Unteroffizier in the Wehrmacht during the war and became the fourth [[Great Paap]] on 28 October 1948. He retained the family title until his son succeeded him in 2007.<ref name="martin-leadership"/>
* [[Jan Paap]] (1919–1999/2005) – Younger brother of Martin Paap I and uncle of Martin Paap. He founded the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen in 1944 and ruled Tanoa until his retirement in January 1980.<ref name="jan-founding"/>

=== Van Hetten family ===
* [[Imro van Hetten (father)|Imro van Hetten]] (born 1903) – Father of [[Imro van Hetten]], the third member of De Vrienden. He served as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot with [[Jagdgeschwader 27]] during the Second World War and was credited with 23 aerial victories. After the war, he returned to [[Paramaribo]], where he worked as a civilian flight instructor.<ref name="imro-military"/><ref name="imro-postwar"/>

=== Hoos family ===
* [[Hendrik Hoos]] (1904–1998) – Father of [[Eef Hoos]], the fourth member of De Vrienden. He served in the German military from 1924 to 1945, initially in engineering units and later in the Waffen-SS. After the war, he worked for [[Toetanchamon]] and taught his children metalwork and vehicle repair.<ref name="hendrik-military"/><ref name="hendrik-personal"/>

=== Schroeter family ===
* [[Lourens Schroeter (father)|Lourens Schroeter]] (1889–1985) – Father of [[Lourens Schroeter]], the fifth member of De Vrienden. He was an engineer who served as a German Army officer during both world wars and reached the rank of General der Infanterie. In 1945, he began assembling road vehicles with his son in Rotterdam. Their workshop developed into [[Schroeter Romeo]], which was formally registered in Vriendendam in 1950.<ref name="lourens-postwar"/>