Henri Martin (politician)

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Henri Martin (* 1927 in Lunery ; † February 17, 2015 in Pantin ) was a French resistance fighter against the Nazi regime in the Resistance and a member of the leadership of the French Communist Party .

Life

He joined the French Communist Party (PCF) at the age of 16 and fought in the Resistance against the German occupation during the Second World War . At the beginning of 1945 he volunteered for five years in the French Navy to help with the overthrow of Japan. However, he was no longer used there. Instead he was supposed to fight Vietnam in the French Indochina War. He refused and was sent back to France in 1947.

Sentencing and imprisonment

In uniform, Henri Martin called on other sailors to resist the Indochina War and was arrested on March 14, 1950. A French military court sentenced him to five years' imprisonment for degrading his military strength, against which an international protest movement turned. Even Jean-Paul Sartre sat down 1953 in his text resisting injustice. The Henri Martin affair for the convicted one. Martin was released in 1953 as a result of the protests.

Party functions

Henri Martin later became director of the Central Party School and a member of the PCF party leadership.

obituary

When he died at the age of 87, the Paris magazine “Initiative Communiste” wrote in its obituary:

"For a whole generation in France and around the world, Henri was the symbol of proletarian internationalism and the struggle against colonialism."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent von Wroblewsky: Highlights of the decadence. In: Friday. June 17, 2005, accessed April 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ RotFuchs editorial team: Mourning for Henri Martin. In: RotFuchs. June 2005, accessed April 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French resistance fighter of the Resistance and politician (PCF)
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunery
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2015
Place of death Pantin