André Mouton

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André Mouton (born May 15, 1924 in Savignac-Lédrier , Dordogne , † January 21, 2017 ) was a French writer . He was a prisoner in the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps and took part in the death marches across the Harz Mountains, from Nordhausen via Osterode to Oker . He was the namesake of the André Mouton Realschule in Goslar-Oker, which later became part of the Adolf Grimme Comprehensive School .

biography

Mouton was born in 1924 as the second child of Cathérine and Louis Mouton. His father was a farmer. André Mouton had a brother (Albert) who died as a Resistance fighter. The family lived in Corgnac-sur-l'Isle until Mouton was arrested . André Mouton became a baker and worked in this profession until his deportation. On August 26, 1943, he was arrested for possession of guns after being denounced . The transport to Germany first went via Limoges and Compiègne to the Buchenwald concentration camp . In January 1944 he was relocated to Mittelbau-Dora near Nordhausen to build the tunnel, the camp and later the V-weapons. On April 8, 1945, he and many other inmates were forced to go on one of the many so-called “death marches”. This led him from Nordhausen via Osterode and Clausthal-Zellerfeld to Oker. A long odyssey through northern Germany began here, before he was liberated on May 15, 1945 and was able to return to France. Until 1957 he worked again in his old profession. From 1957 until his retirement in 1981 he lived in Paris and worked for the Thompson company. From 1981 he lived in Trélissac near Périgueux (Dordogne), where he also wrote his memoirs about the time of the deportation. They earned him national and international recognition.

As long as he could, André Mouton went to schools regularly to report on the time of National Socialism and life in a concentration camp. He was connected to Goslar, especially Oker and the secondary school Oker, since 1998. In his honor and on the initiative of the headmaster Dr. Roßdeutscher, the school was given its name. After the school was closed and taken over by the Adolf Grimme Comprehensive School , his name was transferred to the place with the stele of the Harz road sign project in 2015.

Works

  • André Mouton: Unexpected return from the Harz. Brumby Verlag, Goslar 2000, ISBN 3-934231-11-X .
  • André Mouton: Retour Inespéré, La vérité sur la Déportation. France 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The city of Goslar commemorates André Moutons regionalGoslar.de, January 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Inauguration of the André Mouton-Platz in Goslar-Oker trace search Harzregion e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Mouton, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French prisoner in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Savignac-Lédrier
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2017