Boris Fraenkel

Boris Fraenkel (1921, Free City of Danzig - 23 April 2006, Pont du Garigliano, Paris) was a Communist politician active in French and international politics.

Biography

To 1950

Fraenkel was born to Jewish parents in 1921 in

During the 1960s and '70s Fraenkel crossed the path of many persons who became public personalities - politicians such as Alain Krivine and Lionel Jospin, university lecturers such as Jean-Marie Brohm and Georges Vigarello, as well as many journalists.

2001–06

Fraenkel re-appeared in public life in 2001, when he affected the French presidential campaign by revealing (as he had already done in 1997) Lionel Jospin's Trotskyite past. Jospin had been introduced to him by Robert Lacondemine, one of his comrades in Dugny's cell (other members were Fraenkel, Denise and the historian Pierre Broué, who located him at a wedding in Burgundy and referred to Fraenkel as "a young intellectual with a happy air who joined the ENA").

Fraenkel told the Nouvel Observateur:

It was slightly my speciality: to locate young people of the left and have them fall into my nets, as my comrades put it. Jospin was then a student at ENA. I moulded him secretly. We did not then have a graduate of the École nationale d'administration in the movement. It was an extraordinary chance to infiltrate high public office. When I recruited Jospin, only Lambert and I knew he was in the organisation. I even thought that Lambert did not know I had been in the circuit.^[2]

In 2002 he decided to join the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire "to break his isolation", but was disappointed by it and did not long remain a member.

Boris Fraenkel committed

Notes

Bibliography

• (in French) Thomas Munzer, Pour Wilhelm Reich par Boris Fraenkel. Sexualité et travail, Éditions Maspero (1968).
• (in French) Boris Fraenkel, Sonia Combe, Antoine Spire, Profession: Révolutionnaire, Collection Clair & Net. Éditions Le Bord de L'eau, 29 March 2004,
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