Albert Meems

Albert Meems (28 February 1888, Nieuw-Buinen – after 1957, possibly in India) was a Dutch spy for Germany in the Second World War, "one of very few German agents who successfully moved in and out of the UK during the Second World War without being detected".

Meems was the son of Okko Meems and Hindekien Veentjer, factory workers in Borger. In the 1930s and during the war, Meems lived in Hanover.

He spent a lot of time in India where he worked as a livestock dealer sourcing animals for European zoos.

Meems worked as a spy for Germany in the First World War and re-enlisted as part of 'Nest Bremen' in 1938. Nest Bremen was an outpost of Hamburg Abwehr.

Reference is made to Meems in The New York Times of 4 June 1922 when a consignment of "elephants, baboons and snakes" valued at more than US$100,000 arrived by ship. Meems is described as "a trapper and hunter of wide experience" who put the shipment together. He was reported as having gathered the animals during a one-year expedition in Burma.

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