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Jacques Camille Louis Stosskopf (born November 27, 1898 in Paris , † September 1, 1944 in Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp ) was a French naval officer and fortress construction manager of the French naval base of Lorient . During the German occupation of France, he remained in office as an apparent collaborator and worked on the construction of the large submarine bunkers in the port of Lorient for the German Navy . At the same time he worked for the French resistance and was executed for it in 1944.

life and career

Stosskopf, of Alsatian descent (and therefore fluent in German), took part in the French army in World War I from 1917 and was awarded the Croix de guerre . After the end of the war, he began studying at the École polytechnique and left it in 1924 as a naval engineer officer. In 1939 he became head of the construction department at the Lorient Naval Arsenal .

Occupation and Resistance

Keroman-3 under construction in 1942
The Keroman 3 submarine bunker in Lorient , as it is today

After the German occupation of France in 1940, he stayed at his post and was employed by the German naval administration in the construction area of ​​the war port Lorient (submarine base).

Under the guise of collaboration , he worked as a resistance fighter within the Réseau Alliance group and regularly transmitted the names of the incoming and outgoing submarines and details of the bunker construction ( Bunker Keroman 1-3 ).

death

After his denunciation by an Alliance fighter captured by the Gestapo , who had named his name under the torture, Stosskopf was arrested by the Gestapo on February 21, 1944 and also tortured. He was deported to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and executed there on September 1, 1944 with a shot in the neck.

After 1945, the French Navy named the Lorient submarine base, which was operated there until 1997, after Stosskopf. Because of his resistance activities, Stosskopf was posthumously awarded the title of Commander of the Legion of Honor by Charles de Gaulle .

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SURNAME Bump head, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stosskopf, Jacques Camille Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naval officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1944
Place of death Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp