Laurent Deleglise

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Laurent Deleglise (actually: Jules Ernest Grenout ) (born August 16, 1891 in France, † 1961 at Jauerling ) was an international criminal and owner of Oberranna Castle .

Life

Born in France, he first went to England and then to Canada, where he became the head of a global smuggling ring. Even before that, he was suspected of complicity in a train robbery in France in 1909 and was targeted by the French authorities in 1911 for counterfeiting money. In England he was convicted of theft. In 1919 he bribed the operations manager of the Cunard Line to smuggle drugs across the Atlantic via a safe transport. However, the establishment of a sales network in Canada and the USA was discovered and he had to leave the country again, so that he was back in Europe in 1921, where he was also wanted in many countries in Western Europe.

By providing false information, he was able to obtain jurisdiction in zu Kalksburg and thus obtain Austrian citizenship. In 1931 he bought Oberranna Castle and began renovating it. Much to the displeasure of the previous owner Annie Dirkens , he also bought large parts of the facility. During the Second World War, the National Socialists wanted to take possession of the castle, arrested delegates and initiated the sale. Although there was a signed sales contract, the arrested deleglise never received the purchase price, which meant that he was again the owner of the castle after the Second World War.

In 1961, Deleglise was found dead on the Jauerling . He was buried in the Niederanna cemetery and his widow lived alone in the castle until 1982.

literature

  • Robert Streibel : Krems 1938-1945. A history of adaptation, betrayal and resistance , Provincial Library Publishing House, Weitra 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-330-1
  • Oliver Rathkolb et al .: bananas, cola, contemporary history: Oliver Rathkolb and the long 20th century , Böhlau, Vienna 2015
  • Tim Newark: Empire of Crime: Organized Crime in the British Empire , 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tradition. In: Oberranna Castle. Retrieved January 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ New Wiener Tagblatt of April 28, 1931, page 5 online
personal data
SURNAME Deleglise, Laurent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grenout, Jules Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French criminal
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH France
DATE OF DEATH 1961
Place of death Jauerling