Auguste Delaune

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Auguste Alphonse Delaune (born September 26, 1908 in Graville-Saint-Sauveur , Département Seine-Inférieure , † September 12 or 13, 1943 in the Sarthe department ) was a French sports official and member of the communist resistance .

Life

As a teenager, Delaune did sports ( cross-country running) in addition to his job as a welder , was involved in the trade union and early on in the workers' sports movement. He was also active in the communist youth organization (Jeunesse Communiste de France) . In 1932 he rose to the general secretariat of the Fédération Sportive du Travail (FST), the French branch of red sports . After the Popular Front won the elections , the Socialist State Secretary Léo Lagrange appointed him a member of the Supreme Sports Council (Conseil supérieur des Sports) in 1936 Of France.

Drafted into the army on the occasion of the French mobilization at the outbreak of World War II , he escaped from the German encirclement of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940 , was awarded the Croix de guerre , but at the end of the year he was a communist from the police of the Vichy regime, which collaborated with the German occupying forces arrested. In 1941 he succeeded in diving underground . In 1943 Auguste Delaune was arrested again near Le Mans and tortured to death by German security forces .

Posthumous honors

After the country was liberated, it was commemorated in many ways in all French regions. In 1945 the city of Reims named its cycling and football stadium , where the players from Stade Reims celebrated their numerous successes, after him. Several streets also bear his name (for example in Alès , Saint-Denis and Valence ), other sports facilities, such as a stadium in Le Mans and swimming centers in Dieppe , Saint-Pol-sur-Mer and Saint-Ouen , and a city district in Bobigny School and a station on tram line 1 . The FST successor organization Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail (FSGT) calls its cup competition Coupe Delaune to this day . In 1947 Auguste Delaune was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to this biography excerpt from Le Maitron (online lexicon of the workers and social movement)
  2. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5 , p. 41
  3. ↑ see the photos of the memorial stone there and the name plate on this page of the FSGT Sarthe
  4. ↑ see this page  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the FSGT@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fsgt.org  
personal data
SURNAME Delaune, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delaune, Auguste Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sports official and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Graville-Saint-Sauveur
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1943 or September 13, 1943
Place of death Sarthe department