Léon Schirmann

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Léon Schirmann (* 1919 in Odessa ; † December 15, 2003 in Paris ) was a French physics teacher, resistance fighter and author of historical studies.

Life

The Jewish Schirmann family left Odessa soon after Léon was born and lived in Berlin for a few years before moving to France . There Léon Schirmann finished school and began studying. After France's defeat in World War II , he initially belonged to General Pétain's so-called armistice army , and later he led a partisan unit in the Maquis in southern France. In 1945 he entered defeated Germany as an officer in the French army .

After his return to France in 1946/47, Léon Schirmann finished his studies and then worked as a physics teacher until his retirement. He then devoted himself to historical studies.

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In his books on the Blutmai of Berlin in 1929 and the Altonaer Blutsonntag of 1932 he expanded his knowledge of these events. Based on the material collected by him, the death sentences of the Altona Special Court were overturned in 1992.

He also devoted himself to the trial of Mata Hari . In his books he tried to prove that Mata Hari was not a spy, but that the trial was staged for propaganda reasons. His findings formed the basis for a request for revision.

Fonts

  • "Blutmai Berlin 1929 - Seals and Truth" , Berlin 1991 ISBN 3-320-01639-3
  • "The Altona Blood Sunday, July 17, 1932 - Seals and Truth" , Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-87916-018-X
  • "Judicial manipulation: the Altona blood Sunday and the Altona or Hamburg justice 1932-1994" , Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-929390-11-6
  • L'affaire Mata Hari. Inquiry sur une machination. Tallandier, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-235-02126-3 (French)
  • Mata-hari. Autopsy d'une machination. Éditions Italiques, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-910536-18-1 (French)

literature

  • Diethart Kerbs : Léon Schirmann (1919–2003) - historian of his own accord , in: IWK , 39th year (2003), issue 4, pp. 531–534.
  • Diethart Kerbs: Leon Schirmann (1919–2003) - physics teacher, resistance fighter and historian , in: Lifelines. German biographies from the 20th century, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-799-4 , pp. 153ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Schröder: An extended review of Léon Schirmann: "Altonaer Blutsonntag, July 17, 1932. Seals and Truth" , information on Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary History (Kiel) issue 29 (June 1996) pp. 62–68, according to the website of the Working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein e. V. (AKENS), accessed on October 4
  2. ↑ Volker Ullrich: War against the Reds. In: Die Zeit of October 21, 1994 online version
  3. ↑ Carsten Schröder: An extended review of Léon Schirmann: "Altonaer Blutsonntag, July 17, 1932. Seals and Truth" , information on Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary History (Kiel) issue 29 (June 1996) pp. 62–68, according to the website of the Working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein e. V. (AKENS), accessed on October 4
  4. ^ Almut Lindner-Wirsching: French writers and their nation in the First World War. Tübingen, 2004 p. 142
  5. ^ French: L'affaire du "dimanche sanglant d'Altona". Autopsy d'un crime judiciare organisé par des magistrats 1932-1937
personal data
SURNAME Schirmann, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physics teacher, resistance fighter and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2003
Place of death Paris