Pierre Kaldor

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Pierre Kaldor (born May 15, 1912 , † March 5, 2010 in Paris ) was a French lawyer , Resistance fighter, communist human rights activist and Knight of the Legion of Honor .

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After obtaining his university entrance qualification, Kaldor studied law and became a lawyer . Joining the French Communist Party early on , he was often asked for legal assistance and legal advice in court by communist or union clients as well as left-wing municipalities .

In August 1935 he took part in an international criminal law congress in Berlin and was able to see the German communist Ernst Thälmann during his free period while visiting the remand prison . In November of the same year, on behalf of the Thälmann Liberation Committee and the International Lawyers' Association , Kaldor tried to negotiate with the People's Court about an expulsion of Thälmann to France. However, the Gestapo came to his hotel and asked him to leave for Paris immediately.

As a Resistance fighter, he was one of the liberators of the French Ministry of Justice from Vichy people and Nazi occupiers in 1944. He later served as the defense lawyer of the accused leaders of the liberation movement in all French colonies , especially defense counsel before military courts during the Algerian war .

He also worked as a translator of Dimitrov's letters from his imprisonment in connection with the Reichstag fire trial , acted as an adviser in numerous professional bans proceedings before German administrative courts , was an expert in the professional bans investigation proceedings before the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva and before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . He appeared as a speaker at national and international anti-professional bans conferences and demonstrations. He was the founder and organizer of the French " Committee for Freedom of Expression in the FRG ", the initiator of vacation stays and gift packages for the children of those affected by the ban.

Until recently he was active on the committee for the rehabilitation of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , whose case files he translated from English into French.

On December 5 and 6, 1997, the Society for the Protection of Citizenship and Human Dignity (GBM) and the East German Board of Trustees of Associations held an "Anti-Discrimination Conference" with over 250 participants in the Berlin building on Köllnischer Park . The focus of the conference was the awarding of the GBM Human Rights Prize to Pierre Kaldor for his decades of work for the politically persecuted and discriminated against.

Pierre Kaldor was awarded the order of " Knights of the Legion of Honor " on October 26, 2007 on the occasion of his 95th birthday by the mayor of Paris in a ceremony by the aid organization " Secours populaire français " in the Paris City Hall .

Kaldor died on March 5, 2010 in Paris.

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literature

  • Hans-Joachim Lang : giving names to memories. About the Jewish students at the Eberhard Karls University. Lecture from [17. October 2007] at Dies Universitatis 2007. (= Tübingen University Speeches. New Part 48) Tübingen 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.thaelmann-gedenkstaette.de/GSETHP/Rundgang/Rundgang-23-Text.html
  2. ↑ http://www.redglobe.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1931&Itemid=105
  3. ↑ http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Menschenrechte/kaldor.html
  4. ↑ http://www.gbmev.de/chrnk/GBM_Chronik_1997.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.ub-archiv.uni-tuebingen.de/biblio0.htm
personal data
SURNAME Kaldor, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1912
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2010
Place of death Paris