Alain de Boissieu

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Général Alain de Boissieu, Compagnon de la Liberation et gendre du général de Gaulle, grand chancelier de la Légion d'honneur.jpg

Alain de Boissieu (born July 5, 1914 in Chartres , Département Eure-et-Loir , † April 5, 2006 in Clamart near Paris) was a French officer, most recently Chief of the General Staff from 1971 to 1975 . He was the son-in-law of Charles de Gaulle .

Life

Alain de Boissieu was the son of an insurance professional. The parents came from Forez and Lyon . Alain de Boissieu was a student at the military school École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr between 1936 and 1938 and from 1938 a student at the French artillery school in Saumur . He was an officer in the cavalry during World War II . France was subject to the Wehrmacht in a few weeks and de Boissieu was taken prisoner by Germany in 1940 . He managed to flee to the Soviet Union in March 1941 . There he was interned on the basis of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact . After the German attack on the Soviet Union, he was released and moved to London , where he joined General de Gaulle and the troops of free France . In 1942 he was appointed French High Commissioner in the Indian Ocean. From 1944 to 1945 he took part in military actions of the Free French troops. Among other things, he was involved in the 1944 landing in Normandy and the liberation of Paris .

In 1946 he married Élisabeth de Gaulle , the daughter of Charles de Gaulle.

From 1956 to 1959 he was regimental commander in the Algerian war . He then became inspector of the tank and cavalry units. In 1962 he was given command of a tank brigade. He was sitting in his father-in-law's car on August 22, 1962 when de Gaulle was assassinated in Petit-Clamart . Nobody was injured. The mastermind was the radical right-wing OAS , which resented de Gaulle for having given Algeria independence. From 1964 to 1967 he was in command of the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. From May 1971 he was a member of the Supreme War Council of France and Chief of Staff of the Army.

Alain de Boissieu was awarded several medals and was also appointed Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor .

Fonts

  • Pour Combattre avec de Gaulle (1940-1945). (Memories, Vol. 1), Plon, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-259-00856-9 .
  • Pour servir le Général (1946–1970). (Memories, Vol. 2), Plon, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-259-00966-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ordredelaliberation.fr
  2. ↑ Visiting Moscow . Short biography. In: The morning of May 4, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Boissieu, Alain de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chief of staff
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Chartres
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2006
Place of death Clamart