Jacques Helbronner
Jacques Helbronner (born September 21, 1873 in Paris ; died November 23, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a French lawyer and Jewish functionary.
Life
Helbronner was a lawyer and since 1899 a member of the Conseil d'État . During the First World War he served as an officer from 1914 to 1919 and had been a member of the staff of the French Minister of War since 1917. Since that time he was friends with the future Marshal Philippe Pétain . Jacques Helbronner was made a knight in 1912, an officer in 1917 and commander of the Legion of Honor in 1925 . In 1919 he received the Croix de guerre 1914-18. In 1940 he was dismissed from the public service as a Jew.
Until then he was Vice President, from 1940 to 1943 he was President of the Consistoire central israélite , the highest organization of Judaism in France. He was arrested on October 23, 1943 in Lyon and on November 20, 1943 deported from the Drancy assembly camp to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he and his wife Jeanne (* July 23, 1873) were murdered immediately upon arrival.
His brother was the geödät and alpinist Paul Helbronner .
literature
- Serge Klarsfeld : Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France. Paris 1978, OCLC 834796610 .
- Simon Schwarzfuchs : Aux prices avec Vichy. Histoire politique des Juifs de France (1940–1944). Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-70212-823-8 .
- Philippe Fabre: Le Conseil d'État et Vichy. Le contentieux de l'antisémitisme. Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-85944-399-1 , pp. 102-103 ( online ).
Web links
- Files of the Legion of Honor for Jacques Helbronner. on culture.gouv.fr
- Portrait of Jacques Helbronner on the page Anonymes, Justes et Persécutés durant la période Nazie dans les communes de France
- Portrait of Jacques Helbronner on the website of the Paul Helbronner Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helbronner, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helbronner, Jacques Édouard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and Jewish functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1943 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp |