Henri Le Rond

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General Henri Le Rond

Henri Louis Edouard Le Rond (born October 9, 1864 in Rouen , † May 29, 1949 in Paris ) was a French general, officer of the Deuxième Bureau and 1920 head of the inter-allied government and plebiscite commission for Upper Silesia .

Life

He was the son of Louis Edouard Le Rond and Jeanne Martin. He graduated from high school and graduated from high school in mathematics, natural sciences and humanities. In 1884 he began studying at the École polytechnique .

Military career

Due to his technical interest, he began to study at the School of Artillery and Military Technology in 1886. After graduating, he became a sous lieutenant in the 22nd e régiment d'artillerie. In 1902 he was promoted to captaincy and in February 1902 he became an adjutant in the command of the 20th e bataillon d'artillerie. In October 1902 he was appointed adjutant to General Hippolyte Langlois . From April 1907 to January 1908 he served as an instructor in the Japanese army. In September 1909 he was appointed artillery chief of the 8 e division de cavalerie in Besançon .

From August 1910 he took part in the French intervention in Tunisia and Algeria . From January 1911 to January 1913 further operations followed in Morocco and on March 23, 1912 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. From February 10, 1913 to August 1, 1914 he served as a French military attaché in Japan and returned to France after the war began in September 1914. He initially took part in the fighting on the Western Front as an officer of the 12 e d'artillerie . In December 1916, with the rank of colonel, he was appointed commander of the 26 e brigade d'infanterie, later commander of the 13 e division d'infanterie. In May 1917 was the artillery commander of the XVII. Army corps and promoted to Général de brigade on December 20, 1917 . Shortly afterwards he was appointed as a staff officer to the Supreme General Staff, where he acted as deputy chief of staff under Marshal Foch , the commander in chief of the Allied army.

After the war, General Le Rond was deployed as a member of the French delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . The linguistically gifted Le Rond spoke Spanish, Japanese and Russian as well as fluent English, German and Italian. He represented Foch in the negotiations and came into close contact with the Polish military mission under General Tadeusz Rozwadowski . On March 1, 1919, a special sub-committee for the reorganization of the Polish-German borders was set up on the resolution of the peace conference. Le Rond took part in many committees on Central European Affairs.

On November 4, 1919, he was appointed President of the Interallied Commission by the decision of the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference and headed the Interallied Government and Plebiscite Commission (IC) for Upper Silesia ("CIHS"; French Commission interalliée de gouvernement et de plébiscite) de Haute-Silésie ). His commission was responsible for the implementation of the referendum in Upper Silesia and worked out proposals for the transfer of the area of East Upper Silesia from the German Reich to Poland . He was directly subordinate to the Ambassador and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In military matters, however, he was subordinate to the High Command of the Allied Forces in Upper Silesia, General Jules Gratier .

On his return, he received special thanks from the French Prime Minister Poincaré for his services . In 1921 he became a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and in 1926 was awarded the Grand Cross ("GC LH"; French Grand-croix de la Legion ). In Poland he was made an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in 1923 . He was also awarded the Order of the White Eagle ( Polish Order Orła Białego ) and Order Virtuti Militari , the highest decoration of the Second Republic of Poland .

literature

  • Jadwiga Liponska-Sajdak: General Henri Le Rond: W 75 rocznice III Powstania Slaskiego (Polish)
  • B. Snoch: Oberschlesisches Biographisches Lexikon , supplement by M. Patelski to the second edition, Katowice 2006, p. 69.
  • Dziennik Personalny, R. 3, No. 27, p. 616. Warszawa 1922.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : uncrowned king of Upper Silesia of 7 May of 2003.
  2. ^ The plot of Upper Silesia : FAZ of May 21, 2011, page Z3
personal data
SURNAME Le Rond, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Rond, Henri Louis Edouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and head of the Inter-Allied Government and Plebiscite Commission in Upper Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1949
Place of death Paris