Albertus Perk (16 September 188714 May 1919) was a Dutch fencer. He competed in the individual

épée The (, ; ), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains a ...

event at the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 6 July and 22 July 1912. The opening ceremony was he ...

. Perk, a

Dutch Army The Royal Netherlands Army (, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the ...

and

Air Force An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army aviati ...

officer, was killed in 1919 when the

Rumpler C.VIII The Rumpler C.VIII was a German single-engine biplane advanced trainer manufactured by Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, in Berlin Johannisthal in 1917. Design and development The C.VIII variant was developed with the intention of providing an operational ...

he was a passenger of exploded in mid-air.

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* 1887 births 1919 deaths Dutch male épée fencers Olympic fencers for the Netherlands Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics People from Anna Paulowna Royal Netherlands Army officers Royal Netherlands Air Force officers Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1919 Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Germany Sportspeople from North Holland 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-fencing-bio-stub