Jean-Claude Bauer (Communist)
Jean-Claude Bauer (3 October 1910 – 23 May 1942) was a Communist partisan and medical doctor.
Biography
Jean-Claude Bauer was born into a Jewish family at Saint-Dié in Vosges. His father, Raoul Bauer, came from Lille and his mother, Flore Weiller, from Saint-Dié.[1]
He studied medicine.[1] In 1934, Bauer joined the French Communist Party (PCF). During the Spanish Civil War, he was a member of the International Health Center.[1]
In 1937, he married Marie-Jeanne Gantou, born on July 14, 1913, in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron, who came from a family of farmers. They settled in Saint-Ouen.[1] Bauer was mobilized and seriously wounded in June 1940 at his regimental aid post. He was taken prisoner, but escaped during a transfer to a Paris hospital.[1]
He joined the Resistance and, in October 1940, helped set up the intellectuals' committees headed by Georges Politzer and Danielle Casanova. In early 1941, he helped launch the clandestine magazine La Pensée libre and, with Maurice Ténine, founded Le Médecin français.[2] At Georges Politzer's request, he contacted lawyer Joë Nordmann to create the magazine Le Palais libre and set up a committee of jurists.
On March 2, 1942, he was arrested by the Special Brigade of the Paris Police Prefecture on his way to a meeting with Jacques Solomon. He was imprisoned and tortured, but gave no information. He was shot at Mont-Valérien on May 23, 1942, along with Georges Politzer, Georges Dudach and Jacques Solomon.[1]
In October 1944, the local liberation committee decided to rename La Chapelle street Doctor Bauer street. Stade de Saint-Ouen became Stade Bauer.[3]
Jean-Claude Bauer is posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour and the War Cross. He was certified FFI (no. 0978) on February 15, 1949.[1]
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Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Virieux, Daniel. "Bauer Jean-Claude (Pseudonyme dans la Résistance: Clément)," Fusilles-40-44.maitron.fr.
- ↑ Withuis, Jolande; Annet Mooij (2010). The Politics of War Trauma: The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries. Amsterdam: Aksant, p. 90.
- ↑ Edwards, Mathias (26 décembre 2016). "Un homme, un stade: Jean-Claude Bauer," Sofoot.com.
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