Jean Mialet

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On April 11, 1995, Jean Mialet spoke in the A-gallery of “Mittelbau-Dora” about the working conditions

Jean René Jaques Mialet (born April 3, 1920 in Saarbrücken , Saar area ; died November 27, 2006 in Paris ) was a French officer, resistance fighter, survivor of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , high - ranking civil servant in the vicinity of General de Gaulle and judge at the French Court of Auditors .

Life before and during World War II

Jean Mialet was the son of Colonel Antony Mialet and Mme Renée Mialet, b. Bureau. He attended the Lycée francais in Mainz, as well as the Lycées Pothier in Orléans and Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand . He studied at the Faculté de Droit of the University of Toulouse (Université de Toulouse (ancienne)) and graduated with the “Diplômé d'études supérieures de droit civil, d'économie politique et de sciences économiques”. Mialet began his military training in 1942 at the Saint-Cyr Military School ; until 1955 he was an active officer.

Prisoner in the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps

In July 1943 Mialet was arrested as a member of the Resistance , interned in the Roayllieu concentration and transit camp near Compiègne and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in September 1943. On October 17, 1943, the SS camps transferred him along with 650 comrades to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp that was just under construction . The "Secret Weapons Command" had the number series 21000; few of them survived. Until the barracks camp was built in March 1944, all prisoners stayed in the tunnels, housed in the so-called sleeping tunnels 44–45. Not only were they hungry, thirsty and extremely poor in hygiene, they also had to endure the pervasive rock dust and the roaring noise of the hammer drills day and night. These prisoners were aware, and had been told, that they would not leave the concentration camp alive because of the secrecy of the V1 and V2 weapons production . It was also painful to know that these ultra-modern weapons would be used against the Allies, claim heavy casualties and prolong the war. In April 1945 he finally reached the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on one of the death marches , where he was liberated on April 15, 1945. It took him seven years to fully recover from the exhaustion.

Life after the war

On July 4, 1947, Mialet married Colette Contensou; the couple had three children: Elisabeth, Olivier and Etienne. He studied from 1953 to 1955 at the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) elite university , then entered the service of the Ministry of Finance. In 1957 he was seconded to the General Secretariat of the Communauté française (French Union and African and Malagasy Affairs), and in 1959 was appointed its head. In 1960 General de Gaulle took him to the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic. From 1962 until his retirement from active service on January 24, 1990, he was a judge at the French Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes). During this time he performed voluntary functions: Member of the "Nationalrat de liaison défense-armée-nation" in 1976, President of the Board of Directors of the Musée de l'Armée from 1984 to 1989, administrator of the "Institution nationale des invalides" in 1992 and President of the " Institut national d'études demographiques ”from 1978 to 1983.

From 1990 to 2006 he was chairman of the inmate advisory board of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial. From 1993 he was president of the "Eurocomités Dora, Ellrich , Harzungen et Kommandos annexes".

Honors

Publications

  • Jean Mialet: L'aide ou la bomb . Paris 1965
  • Jean Mialet & Jean Schlumberger: Le Moral des troupes (1962–1986) . Paris 1991
  • Jean Mialet: Le Déporté. La Haine et le Pardon. Paris 1991; Ders .: hatred and forgiveness. Report from a deportee. Berlin 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Died: Jean Mialet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 2006, pp. 210 ( online - Dec. 4, 2006 ).
  2. ↑ Eric Chiaradia: L'entourage du général de Gaulle: juin 1958 avril 1969. In: Sciences Humaines et Sociales - EPU, Paris 2011, 699
personal data
SURNAME Mialet, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mialet, Jean René Jaques (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer, resistance fighter, survivor of the Mittelbau -Dora concentration camp and judge
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken , Saar area
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2006
Place of death Paris