Victor Antoni

Victor Antoni (* 1882 ; † 1966 ) was an autonomist regional politician in Lorraine in the Third French Republic and during the German occupation in World War II .

Life

Until 1940

Before 1918 Antoni was active as a Catholic in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . After Lorraine was returned to France, Antoni became a member of the Union républicaine lorraine (URL) in 1919 . Excluded from the URL and the Catholic associations, he founded the Union chrétienne-sociale , which was later renamed Parti chrétien-social populaire . Initially a local council ( Conseiller d'arrondissement ) in Fénétrange (Finstingen) , he was elected to the general council ( conseiller général ) in 1928 for Phalsbourg (Pfalzburg) and in 1934 for Fénétrange . In 1936 he ran in Boulay (Bolchen) in the elections for the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des députés) . Prior to the Second World War, he was arrested in 1939 by the French authorities and with other autonomist, mostly Alsatian, politicians in a military prison at Nancy interned (the so-called. Nanziger , fr. Nancéiens ). After the armistice, Antoni was handed over to German troops in July 1940.

After 1940

Upon his return, Antoni was appointed mayor of Fénétrange by the German authorities in occupied Lorraine . In 1942 he took on German citizenship and in 1943 became a member of the NSDAP . After France was liberated by Allied troops, Antoni was arrested in 1945 and sentenced to prison. He was released from prison in 1949 and given an amnesty in 1954 .

Autobiography

• Grenzlandschicksal, Grenzlandtragik: Memoirs and human reflections of a Lorraine on the political errors and confusions of his time , Finstingen: V. Antoni 1957; 1960

literature

• Jean-François Colas: Les droites nationales en Lorraine dans les années 1930: acteurs, organizations, réseaux , Thèse de doctorat, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, 2002.
• Jean-Claude Delbreil: “Les parlementaires et les forces politiques en Moselle dans l'entre-deux-guerres”, in: Jean El Gammal (ed.): Dictionaire des parlementaires lorrains de la IIIe République , Metz, Ed. Serpenoise 2006, pp. 87-129. ISBN 2876926202 .
• François Roth : La vie politique en Lorraine au XXe siècle , Metz-Nancy, Ed. Serpenoise-PUN 1985.

Web links

• Literature by and about Victor Antoni in the catalog of the German National Library