Tjeerd Ottes van der Weide (Wonseradeel, October 27, 1885 - Weesperkarspel, June 6, 1947) was the governor of Velsen called the NSB.
Van der Weide was Mayor of August 1942 until liberation in 1945. After the Second World War he was sentenced to death by the Special Criminal Justice and executed on June 6, 1947.
Van der Weide was responsible for the demolition of parts of IJmuiden and Velsen to facilitate the construction of the Atlantic wall. In his spare time, he actively participated in searches, arrests and hearings of subjugated Jews, illegal workers and arbitrary suspects.
He personally arrested Herman Pieter de Noo, the station manager of IJmuiden in 1943 after public announcement that the railways had to be part of the April Championships. The next day the station manager was fused by the Germans. During the railway strike in 1944 the mayor threatened all railroad workers with extradition to the SS if they would participate in the strike. For his active pro-German policy, he was rewarded by the occupier with the Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2nd class.
During his trial, Van Der Weide indicated that he thought he had always been a good fatherland and did not know that the deported Jews would be destroyed.
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