Guillaume Hoorickx otherwise Willem Hoorickx (12 April 1900 – 31 October 1983)
was a Belgian
ice hockey player. He competed in the
men's tournament at the
1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...
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During
World War II, he worked as an agent for
Victor Sukolov in the
Red Orchestra network. He was imprisoned in the
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
He was also an artist, under the name Bill Orix. A collection of his works is held by the
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (french: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, nl, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Muse ...
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Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique: Guillaume Hoorickx, dit Bill Orix
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See also
* People of the Red Orchestra
This is a list of participants, associates and helpers of, and certain infiltrators (such as Heinz Pannwitz) into, the Red Orchestra (german: Die Rote Kapelle) as it was known in Germany. Red Orchestra was the name given by the Abwehr to member ...
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1900 births
1983 deaths
Belgian painters
Olympic ice hockey players for Belgium
Ice hockey players at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Place of birth missing
Red Orchestra (espionage)
World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
Belgian ice hockey centres
Sportspeople from Antwerp
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