Leon Grossvogel
Leon Großvogel ( Russian Лео Гроссфогель ; pseudonym Ksawje (Xawe) and Susche (?); Born November 27, 1904 in Łódź , Congress Poland / Russian Empire; † 1943/44) was a Polish-Belgian Comintern official , Resistance fighter and one of the organizers of the Red Chapel in Belgium and France .
Life
Großvogel was an electrician and entrepreneur by profession. In 1925 he met Leopold Trepper in Palestine . In 1926 he went to Ghent in Belgium with his sister .
In 1929 Großvogel became a member of the Belgian Communist Party . From 1929 to 1938 he worked for the Brussels-based company "Kautschuk-König". In December 1938, he became general manager of a subsidiary of Trepper's front company Foreign Excellent Trench-Coat Company . In his capacity as a representative of the company, he traveled to Norway , Switzerland , Denmark and Finland .
On instruction from Trepper, Großvogel appointed Mikhail Makarow as managing director of the Foreign Excellent Trench-Coat Company in Ostend . In 1939 Großvogel enlisted the services of Abraham Raichman , a specialist in the preparation of forged documents, on behalf of Trepper , and organized a meeting between Raichman and Trepper and Makarow.
With the beginning of the Second World War , Großvogel refused to expand the company abroad. In 1940 Großvogel went to France with Trepper. In autumn of the same year he founded the company "Simex" in Paris . He was Trepper's most trusted helper and organized a small group to handle transportation and connections.
In December 1940 he visited “ Kent ” in Brussels. After "Simex" was firmly established, he handed the company over to Alfred Corbin . Großvogel lived in Paris in the house of the actor Georges Milton .
Leon Great Bird was one of the three radio operators, the home of Sophia Poznanska and Rita Arnould in the Rue des Atrebates 101 in the Brussels suburb of Etterbeek used.
Großvogel married Jeanne Pesant in the early 1940s and his daughter was born in 1942.
During a meeting with Raichman, Großvogel was arrested in Paris in December 1942.
Jeanne Großvogel-Pesant was arrested on November 25, 1942 in Brussels by the Gestapo special command Red Chapel and murdered on July 6, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee .
literature
- Sergei Nikolajewitsch Poltorak: The scout "Kent" (Russian)
- Viktor Kuznetsov: NKVD against Gestapo. Report from the "Gestapo Müller" .
- Leopold Trepper : The truth , autobiography Ahriman-Verlag Freiburg 1995 ISBN 3-89484-554-6 . Excerpt .
- Sándor Radó Dora reports ... , military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1974, 3rd edition 1980 online (russ). .
Movies
- Russian TV series Krasnaja kapella ( Krasnaja kapella in the Internet Movie Database )
- German television series Die Rote Kapelle
Web links
- Lasar Medowar: The conductor of the Red Chapel (russ.)
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: Encyclopedic directory «Great names of Russia» - Leon Großvogel (russ.)
- The GRU in Western Europe during the Second World War: Belgium and Holland (Russian)
- Speech by the Ambassador of Russia to Belgium at the international conference in memory of the heroes of the Red Chapel (russ.)
- Lasar Medowar: Heroism and Tragedy of the Red Chapel (russ.)
- The GRU in Western Europe during the Second World War: France (russ.)
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: Russian hall in the Royal Museums for Art and History, Brussels (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Trepper, he was arrested in Brussels on December 16, 1942
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Großvogel, Leon |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Xawe (pseudonym); Ksawje (pseudonym); Гроссфогель, Лео (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Belgian Comintern functionary and resistance fighter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź |
DATE OF DEATH | 1943 or 1944 |