Georges Oltramare

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Memorial stone for the 1932 riots

Georges Oltramare (born April 17, 1896 in Geneva ; † August 16, 1960 there ) was a Swiss politician ( Union nationale ).

biography

Oltramare conducted law studies in Geneva, worked as a tax collector in Bucharest , as a journalist and in the press service of the League of Nations . He wrote for the Geneva newspaper La Suisse and was editor of the satirical magazine Le Pilori from 1923 until it was banned in 1940 . In 1927 he received the Welti Prize of 3000 francs for his novel Don Juan ou la solitude . A political event he organized led to the 1932 riots in Geneva . From 1933 to 1936 he was a founder of the Union nationale on the Geneva Grand Council .

From 1936 to 1938, Oltramare visited Benito Mussolini more than ten times . In 1940 he settled in occupied Paris , where he initially took over the management of a newspaper published by the German occupying forces and then worked on the radio and for other newspapers. In 1944 he fled to Sigmaringen with the Vichy government . On April 21, 1945 he was arrested by the Allies and extradited to Switzerland.

The right-wing extremist Oltramare was sentenced to three years in prison by the federal court in 1947 for offenses against the independence of Switzerland ; In 1950, a court in Paris sentenced him to death in absentia for collaboration .

family

His brother André Oltramare was a social democratic politician and life partner of the philosopher Jeanne Hersch .

literature

  • Mauro Cerutti: Oltramare, Georges , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/2, 2009, pp. 598f.
  • Jean-Noël Cuénod : De l'assassinat de Sissi à l'acquittement de Mikhaïlov: un siècle de procès à Genève. Geneva 1999.
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 406 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minerva Journal, 1927, p. 268.
personal data
SURNAME Oltramare, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (Union nationale)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1960
Place of death Geneva