René Fonjallaz

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René Fonjallaz Bobsleigh
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 1907
place of birth Bern
job journalist
date of death December 1993
Career
Medal table
Type of medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
1931 World Bobsleigh ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver Oberhof Four-man bobsleigh
last change: July 8, 2015

René Marcellin Fonjallaz (* 1907 in Bern ; † December 1993 ) was a Swiss journalist , fascist and bobsledder .

biography

René Fonjallaz came from a well-known Swiss winemaking family . His father Arthur Fonjallaz was the founder of the Swiss Fascist Movement . Son René shared his father's political views. He worked as a book author - also under the pseudony Ené - and journalist.

1928 started Fonjallaz in the four at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , finishing with the team of Bob I Switzerland eighth. During the preparatory exercise, he fell and was unconscious for five minutes. In 1931 he won the silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the Bobsleigh World Championships in Oberhof together with N. Buchheim and Gaston and Gustave Fonjallaz - the relationship is unclear.

During the Second World War , Fonjallaz worked for German propaganda in France. There he was a member of the French fascist party Parti populaire français (PPF). In Paris he worked for Radio Brazzaville N 2 , among others , which broadcast five times a day for 15 minutes. The radio station denounced “traitors” and recommended the French soldiers to follow their “true commander” General Pétain and fight against the “Anglo-Saxon invaders”.

In 1947, Fonjallaz was indicted in Switzerland together with Georges Oltramare and Paul Bonny for collaboration with the Germans and sentenced to three years in prison. As early as 1941, he and his father had been accused of espionage. In 1950 he emigrated to Ibiza in French-speaking Spain , where he and his wife Ana von Osterburg opened a restaurant.

bibliography

  • A la mémoire de Henri Roorda. Lausanne 1928
  • Rumeurs des Ombres . Lausanne 1928
  • Dallas and Co . Lausanne 1929 (300 numbered copies)
  • With Georges Oltramare / Maurice Porta: L'Amour en Suisse romande . Lausanne 1929
  • Visages de l'Ouest lointain . Lausanne 1931
  • Bobsleigh . Edition Métropole. Lausanne 1932
  • Ventre-à-terre . Neuchâtel 1935

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nom Fonjallaz. In: Geneanet. Retrieved July 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Andy Bull: Speed ​​Kings. Random House, 2015, ISBN 978-1-473-50862-0 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Luc van Dongen: La Suisse Face a la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-05053-1 , p. 272 ​​( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ^ Glenn Hauser: DX Listening Digest. In: worldofradio.com. June 15, 2003, accessed July 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Le jugement d Oltramare, Bonny et Fonjalla. Le Confédéré , November 17, 1947, p. 2 , accessed July 8, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Le procès Fonjallaz & Consorts devant le Cour pénale fédérale. Nouvelliste valaisan , February 25, 1941, p. 2 , accessed July 8, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Leidsch Dagblad . In: Leiden.courant.nu. February 1, 1940, p. 3 , accessed July 9, 2015 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ Yves MICHAUD: Ibiza mon amour. Robert Laffont / bouquins / segher, 2012, ISBN 978-2-841-11629-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Fonjallaz, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fonjallaz, René Marcellin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, fascist and bobsledder
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 1993