Thierry de Briey

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Thierry Marie Ferdinand Ghislain Comte de Briey, Baron de Landres (born December 29, 1895 in Brussels , † April 11, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a Belgian nobleman and show jumper .

biography

Laclaireau Castle, then home of the de Briey family

Thierry de Briey came from a noble Belgian family. His father Camille (1862-1944), married to Marie Cécile d'Huart (1871-1963), was governor of the province of Luxembourg from 1912 to 1932 .

In 1920 de Briey started his horse Perfect Gentleman at the Olympic Games in Antwerp . He finished 21st in show jumping. The following year he married Simone Burnell (1900–1981); the couple had three daughters. He was a reserve officer of the Regiment des Guides , a cavalry regiment , and was awarded the Order of the Crown and the Order of Leopold .

During the occupation of Belgium by the German Wehrmacht , Thierry de Briey was a member of the resistance organization Armée belge reconstituée (ABR) (Flemish secret leger ). In February 1944 he learned that his father was seriously ill and went from Brussels to his residence, Laclaireau Castle in Èthe . There he was arrested by the police on February 15; other ABR members were also captured at the same time. On May 8, 1944, he was deported on a train from Antwerp together with around 850 other Belgians and around 50 prisoners of other nationalities - all as "political prisoners" ; de Briey was listed as an "industrialist" on the SS transport list. First he came to Buchenwald and then to the Harzungen camp , a satellite camp of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp . A second transport of this kind took place from Belgium on May 23, as the local prisons were "overcrowded" with prisoners and therefore had to be evacuated, as the Reich Security Main Office justified the deportations. On April 4, 1945, the camp in Harzungen was evacuated by the SS. Around 4,500 prisoners were transported to Bergen-Belsen by train, around 2,000 were forced to go on a death march on foot . Among them was Thierry de Briey, who died on April 11, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 49.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 to the Harmonie Royale St. Pierre Ethe
  2. ↑ Family tree of the de Briey family
  3. ↑ a b c de briey. In: users.telenet.be. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Secret Leger Foundation - Armée Secrète Foundation. In: sgl-fas.be. February 2, 2054, accessed November 16, 2018 (French).
  5. ↑ Konvooi van 8 mei 1944. In: getuigen.be. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Peter Scholliers: De massale Ontruiming van die SS-Gevangenissen. The transports of 8 and 23 in May 1944 to Buchenwald. In: Journal of Belgian History. 1980, pp. 119f. , accessed November 16, 2018 . (PDF file)
  7. ^ Wolfgang Benz: The place of terror: Niederhagen. CHBeck, 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 311 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Briey, Thierry de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briey, Thierry Marie Ferdinand Ghislain Comte de, Baron de Landres (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian nobleman and show jumper
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen concentration camp