André Marquis
André Amédée Abel Marquis (born October 24, 1883 in Toulon , Var department , † October 15, 1957 in La Roche-sur-Yon , Vendée department ) was a rear admiral in the French Navy .
Life
Training as a naval officer and First World War
Marquis, son of Rear Admiral René Marquis and his wife Thérèse Françoise, began training as a naval officer at the Naval School (École Navale) after attending school in 1900 and was transferred to the military port of Toulon on October 5, 1903 . On 5 October 1905 he was appointed lieutenant (Enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième classe) transported and to the Charlemagne class belonging to pre-dreadnought battleship Saint-Louis in the Mediterranean added. On January 1, 1906, it was used again in the military port of Toulon and, from January 1, 1908, training at the school for torpedo boat officers (École des Officiers torpilleurs) . After completing this training, on August 14, 1908, he became an officer on the newly commissioned submarine Saphir , which was part of the 1st submarine flotilla in the Mediterranean.
After it was used again in the military port of Toulon between January 1, 1911 and January 1, 1912, it was used on January 1, 1912 on the armored cruiser Léon Gambetta Aide-de-camp by Flotilla Admiral Louis Dartig du Fournet , commander of 1. Light division of the 1st squadron. After his promotion there to lieutenant captain (Lieutenant de Vaisseau) on March 19, 1912, he became commander of the Triton submarine on October 1, 1912 , which was stationed at the Cherbourg submarine base . Subsequently, on October 7, 1916, he became the commander of the submarine Brumaire belonging to the class of the same name and received the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor during this time .
Promotion to rear admiral and World War II
On January 1, 1918 Marquis was transferred back to the Military port of Toulon and was there on August 1, 1920 his promotion to Lieutenant Commander (Capitaine de Corvette) . After a course as an officer auditor at the Naval College (École Supérieure de la Marine) in Paris from January 1, 1921, he was promoted to orderly officer of Naval Minister Flaminius Raiberti in 1922 and promoted to frigate captain (Capitaine de Frégate) on August 25, 1923 . He then acted from October 1924 to 1927 as commandant of the Aviso Ancre and then between 1927 and 1928 as an officer auditor at the Center for Higher Naval Studies (Center des Hautes Études Navales) . In the following period he was a naval attaché at the embassy in Italy from 1928 to December 1930 , where he was promoted to captain of the sea (Capitaine de Vaisseau) on December 3, 1929 . After returning to France in December 1930, he became the commander of the armored cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, now used as a training ship, at the Saint-Nazaire naval base .
Thereafter, Marquis held from January 1, 1932 to 1933 in personal union as a member of the Council for the Improvement of Naval Schools and as Commander of the School for Applications (École d'application) before he was in 1933 director of the Center for Higher Naval Studies. In January 1936, he was promoted to flotilla admiral (Contre-amiral) and appointed chief of staff at the Cherbourg naval base . He then took over a professorship for tactics at the Naval War School (École de guerre navale) in July 1937 and in March 1938 the post of commander of the 3rd cruiser division in the Mediterranean with the light cruiser La Marseillaise as the flagship .
In July 1940, Marquis was promoted to Rear Admiral (Vice-amiral) and took over the post of Prefect of the 5th Naval District in Toulon. On November 27, 1942, the day the Vichy fleet was scuttled , he was captured by German armed forces . After the liberation of France, he was arrested again in 1944 and sentenced to five years imprisonment for collaboration in 1946 , before being pardoned in September 1950.
Marquis was married twice, from September 8, 1913 until her death on April 30, 1938, her first marriage to Marie Suzanne Pivet, daughter of Rear Admiral Louis-Joseph Pivet . In his second marriage he married Louise Burdin on November 12, 1941.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ René Marquis on the Naval School's homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marquis, André |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marquis, André Amédée Abel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French rear admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulon , Var department |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1957 |
| Place of death | La Roche-sur-Yon , Vendée department |