Robert Duterque
Gaétan Robert Duterque or Gaëtan Robert Duterque (born March 11, 1907 in Huby-Saint-Leu in northern France ; † May 3, 1945 in an unknown location) was a member of the Forces françaises de l'intérieur and an active resistance fighter in the Liberation North , trade unionist , Member of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière party and co-founder of the Reims daily L'Union , which is still published today.
Life
After a regular school education in Vindey in the Marne department , he trained as a teacher from 1923 to 1926 and was then able to teach classes with "disabled students". He was married and had two sons, born in 1935 and 1938. He was not called up for World War II due to an accident .
Duterque worked alongside his school service under the pseudonym Lieutenant Philippe and with forged papers in the underground for the Resistance to liberate France from German occupation. Under the name Comité départemental de liberation nationale de la Marne , its task was to organize information. Robert Duterque also participated, along with Edmond Forboteaux, in the preparation and drafting of the first edition of the French newspaper L'Union , which was secretly published on August 30, 1944.
He was arrested on June 13, 1944 and interned in Reims and Chalon. On July 15, they were transported to the Neuengamme concentration camp . He was then ordered to go to Bremen-Farge and finally came to the Ravensbrück concentration camp at the beginning of April 1945 because of the approaching enemy troops . The exact circumstances of death are not known; one suspects death from exhaustion two days after the camp was liberated. Other sources suspect an accidental shelling on the refugee ship Cap Arcona in the Baltic Sea.
Honors
In various public places - especially in Reims - there are memorial plaques to his person. In 1971 a street in Reims was named Allée Robert Duterque in his honor.
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Footnotes
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duterque, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duterque, Gaétan Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huby-Saint-Leu |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1945 |