Jean Catelas
Jean Joseph Catelas (born May 6, 1894 in Puisieux , † September 24, 1941 in Paris ) was a French communist and politician .
Life
Catelas was born into a poor family in 1894, the seventh of nine children. After finishing school at the age of 12, he worked with his father in a hosiery factory before being drafted into the infantry in 1914 during the First World War . Among other things, he took part in the Battle of Verdun and was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille militaire .
After the war, Catelas started working as a brakeman on the Northern French Railway and in 1921 joined the French Communist Party (PCF) . In 1924 he became a conductor.
After he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Amiens in 1932 , Catelas was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Third Republic in 1936 and appointed to the Central Committee of the PCF in December 1937 . From 1938 he took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the International Brigades and left Spain with Dolores Ibárruri as one of the last communists.
On May 13, 1941, Catelas was arrested by the Vichy regime and sentenced to death on September 21, 1941. On 24 September 1941 he was in retaliation for the assassination of Resistance -Kämpfers Pierre Georges on the German officer candidate Alfons Moser at the Metro station Barbès - Rochechouart in La Santé prison by the guillotine executed. Catelas was 47 years old.
Web links
- Biography on the website of the French National Assembly .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelo Tasca: Vichy 1940–1944: quaderni e documenti inediti di Angelo Tasca. 1986, ISBN 88-07-99044-X , p. 121 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Catelas, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Catelas, Jean Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French communist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Puisieux |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1941 |
| Place of death | Paris |