Leon Grossvogel

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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 .

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  1. ↑ According to Trepper, he was arrested in Brussels on December 16, 1942
personal data
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