Marcel Dassault

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Marcel Dassault (1914)

Marcel Dassault (born January 22, 1892 in Paris , † April 18, 1986 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ; born Marcel Bloch ) was a French aviation entrepreneur .

Life

Bloch was the son of a Jewish general practitioner. He attended the traditional Paris high school Lycée Condorcet and an elite university , the Aviation University (ENSAE). He was one of the first aviation and aerospace students in France. During the First World War in 1917 he developed a very efficient wooden propeller for the French Air Force under the name Éclair ( French for 'lightning') . In 1928 he founded the aviation company Société des Avions Marcel Bloch . After the Compiègne armistice (1940) Bloch was supposed to work for the German occupiers as a so-called “economically valuable Jew”. He was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp . In the concentration camp he converted to the Catholic faith. Bloch refused any cooperation with the German aviation industry, but survived through the protection of a confidante of Wilhelm Canaris . In 1949 he changed his name from Bloch to Dassault. Dassault was the pseudonym of his brother General Darius Paul Bloch , who was in the French Resistance . The name alludes to the resistance (code name “Chardasso”) and is probably derived from char d'assaut , the French term for “battle tank”.

Dassault later also developed the Mystère and Mirage fighter aircraft and managed SA Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation with 16,000 employees until his death.

From 1951 to 1956 Marcel Dassault was a member of the French National Assembly for the Alpes-Maritimes department and from 1957/1958 a senator for the Oise department , as well as the age-president of the National Assembly.

Marcel Dassault is the father of Serge Dassault , the publisher and second richest man in France.

Well-known aircraft designs

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Marcel Bloch-dassault Dead at 94 .
  3. ↑ Information on the person on the website of the French Senate (French) , accessed on January 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Dassault, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloch, Marcel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French operator
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1986
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine