Albert Merglen

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Albert Merglen (born June 17, 1915 in Schlettstadt , † June 20, 2012 in Dijon ) was a French general and military writer.

Life

The Alsatian Merglen worked as a teacher in Dijon from 1934 to 1937 . From 1937 to 1970 he was a professional member of the French army and rose to the rank of general.

After the Second World War , Merglen was head of the Tettnang governorate of the French occupation zone from February 1, 1947 , which also included the heavily destroyed industrial city of Friedrichshafen .

Merglen worked to ensure that the aircraft and armaments site on Lake Constance was not de-industrialized, but that the Zeppelin Foundation and the gear factory in Friedrichshafen were retained. Merglen was committed to German-French friendship at an early age .

Merglen published writings on the military and contemporary history as early as the Second World War. In addition to numerous books and articles on these topics, he also published two books for young people.

In Friedrichshafen on July 5, 1994, in his presence, a branch of a state primary school that had already opened in January 1994 was named after him, the Albert-Merglen-Haus . The school was established in the former French school after the withdrawal of the French armed forces stationed in Friedrichshafen. This school name Merglen called "joy and pride (of his) life". In 1998, the independent Albert-Merglen-Schule emerged from the branch .

In 1997 he was awarded the second highest level of the French Order of Merit for his services to international understanding when he was appointed Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite .

Fonts

  • Groupe franc. Récit de guerre . Arthaud, Grenoble and Paris 1943
  • Mission spéciale en France . Arthaud, Grenoble and Paris 1945
  • Le Grand livre du monde. Roman d'aventures pour les jeunes . Arthaud, Grenoble 1948 (adventure novel for young people)
  • Les deux éclaireurs de l'Ohio . Alouette des jeunes, 1960 (book for young people about the friendship between a young French and an Indian in America from 1754)
  • A remarkable combined operation. Air and sea landing near Lae, New Guinea, September 4th and 5th, 1943 . in: Wehrkunde, 9th year 1960, pp. 410–412
  • The campaign in Ethiopia. 1940-1941 . in: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 10, 1960, pp. 132–138
  • The Sino-Japanese War. 1937-1945 . in: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 10, 1960, pp. 363–371
  • La Guerre de l'inattentu. Operations subversives, aéroportées et amphibies . Arthaud, Grenoble 1966
  • La Guerre à la française. Français, Allemands, Russes, Anglais, Américains, Japonais et Chinois en guerre . Arthaud, Grenoble 1967
  • Les forces allemandes on the front de l'Ouest on September 1939 . (historical document published as part of a dissertation by Georges Dupeux), Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux 1969
  • Histoire et avenir des troupes aéroportées . Arthaud, Grenoble 1968 (German edition: History and future of the airborne troops , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1970)
  • La naissance des mercenaires . Arthaud, Paris 1970 (letters and diaries 1951–1953)
  • La vérité historique. Drames et aventures de la Seconde guerre mondiale . La Pensée Universelle, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-214-06229-7
  • International security and the Brezhnev doctrine . Proceedings of the conference of the International Security Council, Brussels 1985. CAUSA, New York 1985 (editor, jointly with William R. van Cleave)
  • November 1942. La grande honte . Harmattan, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7384-2036-2
  • La France pouvait continuer la guerre en Afrique Française du Nord en juin 1940 . in: Espoir 514, pp. 17-22 and as Miszelle in: Francia, Volume 20/3 (1993), ISBN 978-3-7995-7234-7 , pp 163-174 ( digitized version )
  • Quelques réflexions historiques sur l'armistice franco-germano-Italien de juin 1940 . in: Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, 45th year 1995, issue 177, pp. 79–93
  • Le parfum de l'aventure, Nouvelles de guerre et de naguère . Ed. France Europe, Nice 2001, ISBN 2-913197-18-3
  • “Post-war period in southern Württemberg” - Reflections on the personnelles d'un ancien Gouverneur du cercle du Gouvernement militaire français en Allemagne on the subject of the publication du livre de Michaela Häffner . in: Francia, Volume 30/3 (2003), ISBN 3-486-56457-9 , pp. 183–190 ( digitized version ) [personal thoughts on Häffner's book of the same name]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2012/06/27/deces-du-general-albert-merglen-natif-de-selestat
personal data
SURNAME Merglen, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlettstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2012
Place of death Dijon