Eugène Deloncle
Antoine Octave Eugène Deloncle (born June 20, 1890 in Brest , † January 17, 1944 in Paris ) was an engineer and French politician of the extreme right. He was the adoptive father of Jacques Corrèze .
Life
Deloncle was the son of Antoine Charles Louis Deloncle and his wife Anna Ange Marie Grossetti. The father was the captain of the French ocean liner La Bourgogne , in the sinking of which he was killed in 1898. After graduating from the École polytechnique , Deloncle worked for the French Navy. During the First World War he was registered as an artillery officer . Wounded at the front in Champagne , he was accepted into the Legion of Honor .
After he was initially a supporter of the right-wing, anti-German Action française , he left this political formation in 1935, which he considered powerless, to join the Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire (CSAR; secret committee for revolutionary actions), better known under the von Maurice Pujo named Cagoule to found his own militant right-wing group. Cagoule retained the strictly anti-republican-anti-communist-anti-Semitic line of Action française, but added a fascist rhetoric to it. With the help of the Cagoule, Deloncle organized political murders of communists and anti-fascist political agitators.
After the French defeat during the Second World War and the beginning of the German occupation in June 1940, Deloncle supported Admiral François Darlan , refreshed his contacts from the Cagoule period and founded the Mouvement social révolutionnaire (MSR; social revolutionary movement), a radicalized Cagoule, who supported Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain's Vichy regime , his traditionalism and his political experiment in the initially unoccupied southern zone. He later joined the Rassemblement national populaire (RNP; national people's assembly) of Marcel Déat . When Pierre Laval was dismissed as Prime Minister of the Vichy regime in December 1940, the RNP campaigned strongly for Laval's return. Deloncle even planned a march on Vichy , based on the model of Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922 , which the German occupation authorities rejected out of concern for Pétain's reaction.
About the dissolution of the MSR demanded by Déat, a conflict arose between Déat and Deloncle in May 1941, who carelessly declared that he wanted to become the sole leader of the RNP. In July 1941, the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme (LVF; Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism) or Légion anti-bolchévique or Légion tricolore was founded in Paris . In the LVF, French volunteers in German uniforms fought on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union . Deloncle took over the chairmanship of the LVF Executive Committee. At the same time, he feverishly hatched a plan to eradicate Déats from the top of the RNP in a bogus "car accident". From the hospital bed, Déat then ordered Deloncles to be removed from all party offices and expelled from the RNP. With the exclusion of Deloncles from the RNP, this collaboration party lost its top political position.
Deloncles aroused suspicion by the Gestapo through his collaboration with Wilhelm Canaris ' defense ; an exchange of fire during his arrest killed him and one of his sons.
family
His adoptive son Jacques Corrèze (1912-1991), like he was a member of Cagoule, became one of the senior staff at L'Oréal after the war , which was charged with negotiating the lifting of the Arab boycott against the cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein after L'Oréal had this had taken over.
Eugène Deloncle's niece, Édith Cahier , married Robert Mitterrand , one of the brothers of the future President François Mitterrand , in 1939 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deloncle, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest (Finistère) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1944 |
| Place of death | Paris |