Marcel Pourchier

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Marcel Pourchier (1935)

André Eugène Marcel Pourchier (born June 1, 1897 in Beuil , † September 1, 1944 in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp ) was a French officer , most recently in the rank of lieutenant-colonel .

Pourchier was a member of the mountain troops and also a member of the Beuiler winter sports club founded in 1924. At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, he was the lieutenant captain of the French team in the military patrol demonstration , which was the last to cross the finish line.

In 1930 he constructed the first ski jump in Beuil . As a competent officer, he was in 1932 in the rank of Capitaine first commander of the newly founded mountain combat school École de Haute Montagne (EHM) in Chamonix , in which the members of the 1930 ski reconnaissance platoons were trained. During his time as school commander, he developed new techniques, training methods and clothing for mountain combat. He recruited the engineer Pierre Dalloz and from 1941 supported him in creating detailed mountain maps. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner by Germany and was deported to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, where he died.

In his hometown his name is now on a war memorial and the boulevard Marcel Pourchier bears his name.

literature

  • Marcel Pourchier, Edouard Frendo: La Technique de l'Alpinisme , Arthaud, 1943.
  • J.-P. Martin: Jusqu'au bout du devoir. Le Lieutenant-Colonel Marcel POURCHIER , in Les Cahiers des Troupes de Montagne , No. 17, June 1999, pages 30-38.
  • Pierre Dalloz: Vérités sur le drame du Vercors , Paris, 1979, chapter 3.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Index des noms commençant par P
  2. ↑ L'histoire de Beuil (French).
  3. ^ Association Montagne et Traditions: Surveiller et protéger la frontière (French).
  4. ^ Association Montagne et Traditions (French), 2008.
  5. ↑ Matériel du CEFS (French).
  6. ^ Ian Sumner, Francois Vauvillier, Mike Chappell: The French Army 1939-45 (1) (English), Osprey Publishing, 1998, p. 20.
  7. ↑ Les Allemands à Villard de Lans  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ecoles-villard-de-lans.fr  
  8. ^ D'une Guerre à l'autre: L'Ecole militaire de haute montagne de Chamonix (French).
  9. ↑ Beuil: Monument aux Morts
personal data
SURNAME Pourchier, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pourchier, André Eugène Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer and skier
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuil
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1944
Place of death Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp