Pavel Timofejewitsch Gorgulow

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Pavel Timofejewitsch Gorgulow, 1932

Pawel Timofejewitsch Gorgulow ( Russian Павел Тимофеевич Горгулов ., Scientific transliteration Pavel Timofeevic Gorgulov usual, in French and English speaking countries name forms Paul Gorguloff and Paul Gorgulov * 29. June 1895 in Labinskaja , Russia ; † 14. September 1932 in Paris ) was the Murderer of the French President Paul Doumer . As a writer, he also appeared in public under the pseudonym Paul Bred or Pavel Bred .

Life

The Russian doctor Gorgulow opened a practice in Prague in the late 1920s . However, his license to practice medicine was withdrawn because of several violations of the medical professional code. He then went to Paris and was his third marriage to a wealthy Swiss woman who financed him a writing career. A novel by Gorgulow was published in German translation in 1929 under the title The Nun Son . As Paul Bred, he published a book on the Scythians in Paris in 1932 in Russian .

In September 1931 he obtained a residence permit for the Principality of Monaco , where he stayed until May 4, 1932. On the afternoon of May 6, 1932, in the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild on Rue Berryer in Paris, he fired several shots at President Doumer, who was visiting a book fair there. Doumer died of serious gunshot wounds in the early hours of the following day.

Pavel Gorgulov, who was injured in the head during World War I , suffered from severe paranoia and was completely mentally confused. He described himself as the "true dictator of the Pan-Russian national party". In the midst of an emotionally charged press campaign, in the course of which his head was repeatedly challenged, the trial against him began before the competent jury court in Paris on July 25, 1932. Gorgulov spoke little about his act, but gave lectures to the court about his confused political ideas . As a motive for the crime, he named France's lack of intervention against the Bolsheviks . Three psychiatrists gave opinions on his culpability with mixed results. The death sentence was issued on July 27th .

On August 20, a petition for appeal was rejected by the Court of Cassation in Paris. The French League for Human Rights protested sharply against the threat of execution of a seriously insane person , but Doumer's successor, Albert Lebrun, refused to commute the sentence to imprisonment . On September 14, 1932, Pawel Gorgulow was publicly beheaded with the guillotine by executioner Anatole Deibler in Paris . His last words were "Russia, my country".

Own printed publications

  • The nun's son. Russian film novel. Typosdruck, Olmütz 1929 (under the name form Paul Gorgulow ).
  • Taina jizni Skifov. Société nouvelle d'éditions franco-slaves, Paris 1932 (under the name Paul Bred )

Literary processing

  • George Bankoff: The President Died at Noon . King and Staples, London 1945. (novel)
  • Sergei Kudrjavcev: Variant Gorgulova. Roman iz Gazet . Gileëiìa, Moscow 1999. ISBN 5-87987-012-X (novel)

Non-fiction

  • Hans Flesch-Brunningen: Displaced persons. From Ovid to Gorguloff. Elbenmühl-Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1933.
  • Michel Gorel: Pourquoi Gorguloff at-il tué? Nilsson, Paris 1935.
  • José Agustín Martínez: Un magnicida: Paul Gorguloff. Montero, La Habana 1935.
  • Karelle Vincent: Le régicide, de Saint Réjant à Gorguloff (1800-1932). Dissertation University of Dijon 2000 (on microfiche).

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personal data
SURNAME Gorgulow, Pavel Timofejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorguloff, Paul; Gorgulov, Paul; Горгулов, Павел Тимофеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION killer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Labinsk
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1932
Place of death Paris