Charles Lacheroy
Charles Lacheroy (born August 22, 1906 in Chalon-sur-Saône , † January 25, 2005 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French officer and terrorist in the OAS .
biography
Lacheroy was born into a family with a military tradition. His father was a decorated infantry lieutenant, awarded the Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre . He fell on August 2, 1916 in Fleury-devant-Douaumont near Douaumont . Lacheroy was raised by his grandfather, attended the Prytanée Nationale Militaire military school and graduated from Saint-Cyr . In 1927 he was among the top 20 military school students.
Lacheroy was transferred to the colonial infantry in 1927. From 1928 to 1930 he served in a Senegalese regiment in Upper Volta . He was later used in Syria . In 1940 he was imprisoned for helping the Resistance during World War II . Although not involved, he was imprisoned in Clermont-Ferrand . After his release he joined the Free French in 1942 . He served in Italy and Germany.
In 1951 Lacheroy was sent to French Indochina , where he was commissioned to protect a railway line to Saigon and to secure the Biên Hòa area. After his promotion to lieutenant colonel, Lacheroy was ordered to Paris and director of the Center d'études asiatiques et africaines (CEAA). There he developed a theory of counterinsurgency . From 1954 to 1956 he was an advisor to the Defense Ministers Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury and André Morice.
In 1958, Jacques Chaban-Delmas transferred him to the Constantine Province . On May 13, he was appointed director of the information service for the Psychological Warfare Department in Algiers. In December he became director of the École supérieure des officiers de réserve spécialistes d'état-major .
In the early 1960s, Lacheroy joined the conspirators plotting to carry out a coup d'état against President Charles de Gaulle . For seven years he lived underground with Antoine Argoud, Pierre Lagaillarde and Joseph Ortiz . With these he headed the OAS. He was sentenced to death in absentia in April 1961. With the execution of Jean Bastien-Thiry on March 11, 1963, the OAS was de facto at an end. Lacheroy was given an amnesty in 1968. He returned to Paris.
In 2003 he published his memoirs under the title De Saint-Cyr à l'action psychologique .
Charles Lacheroy died on January 25, 2005 in Aix-en-Provence .
Web links
- Service historique de la défense (French)
- Literature by and about Charles Lacheroy in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War , Copenhagen, 2011, p. 249f
- ^ Charles Lacheroy, De Saint-Cyr à l'action psychologique. Mémoires d'un siècle , Panazol: Lavauzelle, 2003, page 203 ISBN 2-7025-0951-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lacheroy, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer and terrorist in the OAS |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chalon-sur-Saône |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 2005 |
| Place of death | Aix-en-Provence |