Léon Landini

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Léon Landini, October 2013

Léon Landini (born April 9, 1926 in Saint-Raphaël ) is a French politician who fought in the Resistance for the liberation of Lyon , killed numerous German occupiers and destroyed several hundred Wehrmacht vehicles .

Resistance

Landini joined the Parti communiste français , the Communist Party of France, in November 1942 - at the age of 16 . He took this step together with his father and older brother. At that time he had already been fighting the German occupiers for a year and a half and was involved in an explosive attack on the railway line from Saint-Raphaël to Cannes on October 12, 1942 . As a result of this attack, a German derailedFreight train. He continued his fight against the Germans unabated, killing around forty German occupation forces, destroying more than 300 German vehicles, carrying out around forty railway attacks and destroying a number of factories that collaborated with the occupation forces.

He was arrested in Lyon on July 25, 1944 and subsequently interrogated and tortured by Klaus Barbie and his SS men . On August 24, 1944, he escaped from Montluc prison, rejoined his comrades and fought on the barricades of Villeurbanne .

Famille

Landini comes from an Italian family who emigrated to France as early as 1921 due to fascist persecution in their homeland. A number of his family members campaigned against the occupation of France by the National Socialists :

  • His father Aristodème Landini originally came from the village of Torniella in Tuscany. He joined the resistance group FTP-MOI . FTP stands for Francs-tireurs et partisans (German: Freischärler und Partisanen); MOI ( Main d'œuvre immigrée ) was an armed subgroup of the FTP, which was composed predominantly of immigrants. He and his older brother Léon were arrested in 1943 in Saint-Raphaël and subjected to terrible torture.
  • His brother Roger Landini was the commandant of the FTP-MOI and managed to derail eight freight cars in Fréjus-Plage in December 1940 . It was presumably one of the first successful railway attacks by the Resistance . In May 1943 he was arrested by the Germans and in November of the same year he managed to escape from German custody. Roger Landini received the Médaille de la Résistance and was recognized as an Invalide de guerre . He died in October 1962, and thousands accompanied the resistance fighter on his last journey. His coffin was wrapped in the red flag of the Parti communiste français , Section Saint-Raphaël. When a street was named after Roger Landini in his hometown, Charles Tillon , Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier and Pierre Villon unveiled the street signs.
  • His sister Mimi Pulvermacher , who was also active in the FTP-MOI during the occupation, was general secretary of the communist deputies in the Assemblée nationale for 37 years in the post-war years . She received a number of high honors, including the Ordre national du Mérite , and was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur , Knight of the Legion of Honor , also for her work as a resistance fighter . She is also said to have been the first foreigner to be awarded the workers' medal by the GDR.
  • His sister Landina was also active in the FTP-MOI.

Functions

Landini has served for many years as president of the Amicale Carmagnole-Liberté des anciens Francs-tireurs et partisans - Main-d'œuvre immigrée , the veterans' representative of the resistance fighter group FTP-MOI. In this function he published numerous reports and documents from contemporary witnesses and fought for recognition of the long-secret role of immigrants within the Resistance . In 2006 he was elected President of the Assembly of Delegates of the Pôle de renaissance communiste en France (PRCF) on the occasion of the founding of this Marxist-Leninist party. At the 2nd and 3rd National Assembly of Delegates in 2008 and 2011, he was again entrusted with this function.

In 2013 he worked - together with Stéphane Hessel , Raymond Aubrac and Daniel Cordier - on the film Les Jours Heureux by Gilles Perret . The film is subtitled: Quant l'utopie des résistants deviant réalité (When the utopia of the resistance fighters became a reality). Landini presented this film personally at the Festival de Mouans-Sartoux as well as in the Senate and the Assemblée nationale of the Republique Francaise , also in Dunkerque and Limoges , then in three Paris cinemas, in Bagneux , Caen , Lille , Troyes , Gif-sur-Yvette and Nanterre .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Carmagnole-Liberté: Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main-d'Oeuvre Immigrée [FTP-MOI], Amicale FTP-MOI Carmagnole-Liberté 1985
  • Réponse à Michel Onfray et autres textes sur la Résistance , Editions Delga 2015, ISBN 9782915854862

Web links

Commons : Léon Landini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communiste initiative: Allocution de G. Gastaud, secrétaire du PRCF à l'occasion des 90 ans de Geo - Douai, salle des vierges , November 21, 2011, accessed on May 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité: Léon Landini, présente le film "Les jours heureux" by Gilles Perret. , November 4, 2013, accessed May 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Landini, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Raphaël