Francs-tireurs et partisans
The Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP), in German, irregulars and partisans , were a resistance organization of the French Resistance during World War II . The word FR-Shooter literally means Freischütz . This term has been used to describe irregular fighters, i.e. fighters who did not belong to a specific army, since Napoleonic times.
The FTP were founded by the French Communist Party .
German fighters in the ranks of the FTP
- Karl Ackerfeld German fighters in the FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department , Issoire
- Eduard Baltes FTP battalion at Issoire, participating in the liberation of Clermont-Ferrand
- Rudolf Engel ("Ludwig Franken") FTP battalion, Cantal department
- Peter Fell FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, killed in action against the SS in the Creuse department on June 4, 1944
- Joseph Fischbach FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Marcel Grünberg fighter of the FTP-MOI in Lyon
- Wilhelm Honecker FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Emil Jacob FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, killed on August 24, 1944
- Willy Kiefer FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department
- Nikolaus Klein Capitain (Hptm.) In the FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Otto Kühne Lieutenant-Colonel (Lt. Col.), fighters of the FTP-MOI , the department participated in the liberation Gard ( Nîmes ), Ardèche and Lozère part
- Norbert Kugler Partisan near Lyon, commander of partisan units of the FTP / MOI in southern France
- Edith Lehmann worked for the FTP
- Gerhard Leo Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the FTP in Corrèze, participating in the liberation of Tulle
- August Mahnke FTP in the Rhone region, then FTP / MOI, chief of staff of partisan units in the Marseille region , Lieutenant-Colonel (lieutenant colonel)
- Peter Marx FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Hans Michaelis (or Jean Michaels) 239th company of the FTP in the Corrèze department
- Karl Moll , FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Hermann Nuding , Maquis in Haut Savogon , cooperation with the FTP
- Julius Ried , FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dome , Issoire
- Emil Rösler , FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Ernst Scholz , Resistance, 1940 FTP, later in the French regular army
- Waldemar Späth , FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Aloys Trenz (Tren (t) z), FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire
- Hugo Weber FTP battalion at Issoire, participating in the liberation of Clermont
- Jakob Weiskirchner fought in an FTP battalion, arrested in France and imprisoned in a concentration camp
- Leo Weiß , FTP battalion in the Puy-de-Dôme department, Issoire, fallen
See also
- FTP MOI
- Franc-Tireur (resistance movement)
- Forces French de l'intérieur
- Front national (Resistance)
- Manouchian group
- The house next door - chronicle of a French town during the war
- Henri Rol-Tanguy
- Jacques Duclos
- Pierre Villon
- Helmut fights
- Jeanine Sunday
Web links
- Germans in the French Resistance - A Way to Europe
literature
- Michel Aguettaz: Francs-tireurs et partisans français dans la Resistance savoyarde. Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1995. ISBN 978-2-7061-0626-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ sometimes abbreviated to "FTPF"
- ^ Günter Wirth: The Hauser Chronicle , book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1982; Page 36 "A poem that was recited on the occasion of a Sedan Day and dealt with the fate of a French couple, both of whom were Francs-Tireurs [...]."
- ^ Mouvement Ouvrier International (MOI) also as military. Arm of the Resistance, using the example of Georges Bouquie (French) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on archived copy ( memento of the original from September 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Événements Otto Kühne ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) French.
