Guillaume Hoorickx – Wikipedia

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Guillaume „William“ Hoorickx (Pseudonym: Bill Orix ) (Born April 12, 1900 in Antwerp, † October 31, 1983 in Paris) was a Belgian ice hockey player, painter, [first] Resistance fighter of the red chapel and intelligence agent for the Soviet Union.

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Hoorickx took part in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz for the Belgian national team. With his team he took the eighth of eleven ranks. He himself came to three missions in the course of the tournament. At the club level he played for CPA Antwerp.

From autumn 1940 to the end of 1942, Hoorickx belonged to the Belgian network Kent . He was married to Caroline, born Sterk, from whom he was divorced before the war. In 1940 his former wife made him known with her lover Makarov, who was hitting Hoorickx [2] And in the work as an informant and courier. To this end, Hoorickx used trips to France, which he carried out on the order. In February 1941 Gurewitsch took him over as a seller for his company Simex . Hoorickx made it possible to hand over and maintain information for Leopold Trepper and Gurewitsch as a constant courier in Paris.

Hoorickx and his friend Henri Rauch released the Simex company to the Stair’s Council in order to have additional protection. Hoorickx, Rauch and Charles Daniels ( Russian Charles Daniels ) Together, a new company founded, the board of which was located in Brussels in the same building as Simex. At the end of 1941 Hoorickx maintained contact with Reimaker ( Russian Ray ) and got him documents for the members of his organization.

The Russian painter Anna Starizkaja (1908-1981) [3] Was the lover of Hoorickx during the war. [4]

On December 28, 1942, Hoorickx was arrested together with Anna. He came to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he worked as a doctor. On June 2, 1945, he returned to Belgium. In 1946 Hoorickx married Anna Stirizkaja and both worked as a painter. Hoorickx, the pseudonym Bill Orix Annaħm, initially processed his experiences in the concentration camp in his pictures, but turned to abstract painting from 1949. The couple lived in Nice for the following years and relocated their center of life to Paris in 1952. The couple separated in 1957. Due to progressive blindness, Hoorickx gave up painting during his last years. After the death of Anna Starizkaja in 1981, he was primarily devoted to her artistic estate. [5] He survived his wife by two years.

After the war, Hoorickx tried to reorganize the Simex company to organize his relationship with stairs. In April 1946, he took over documents from Claude Spaak, which he had kept for Hersch and Miriam Sokol, who had died in the Gestapokellers. In November 1946, the former lover of Kent, Georgie de Winter, visited him in Brussels. He kept in touch with Charles Daniels, who lived in the Belgian capital.

The Soviet message in Brussels tried with the help of Waltraud Heger ( Russian Waltraud Heather ), the stepdaughter of Rauch, to connect to Hoorickx. In 1954 the Belgian authorities learned that Hoorickx and his wife Anna Stirizkaja in Paris, on the prospectus Emile Zola No. 150 lived and had another apartment in Nice, where they drove frequently because of the Hoorickx health health. In the 1954 police report, it was noted that Hoorickx was suspected of pursuing illegal spy activity.

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  • Gilles Perrault: In the footsteps of the red chapel. Rowohlt-Verlag: Reinbek near Hamburg 1968
  • Heinz Höhne: Password: director , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1970, DNB 457007125 On Google Books
  • Alexander Petrowitsch Kowalenko: Legends went about them ( They became legends , russ.)
  • Alexander I. Kolpakidi: GRU in the Great Patriotic War. ( The GRU in the Great Patriotic War ) – Publishing eksmo, Moscow 2010. ISBN 978-5-699-419-4151-8
  • Anna Staritsky, 1908-1981 (russ.) State Russian Museum, 2000 (Original von University of Michigan)
  • Adrian M. Darmon: Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers . Carnot, 2003 (S. 269)
  • Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute (Hrsg.): A checklist of Painters (1200–1994) . Routledge 2014, S. 235 (Stichwort Hoorickx, Guillaume , Reference to the entry Orix, Bill )
  1. ↑ Bill Orix in the Belgian art museum
  2. ↑ Gilles Perrault: PTX calls Moscow Der Spiegel, May 27th. 1968, accessed on May 9, 2020
  3. ↑ Biography of Anna Stirizkaja (Russ.)
  4. ↑ Dictionary of Jewish painters , accessed on May 8, 2020
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Ivanovsky: Anna Staritsky vania-marcade.com, July 30, 2015, accessed on May 8, 2020

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