Jean-Pierre Timbaud
Jean-Pierre Timbaud (
Second World War, he joined the Resistance
and organized clandestine trade union committees.
Jean-Pierre Timbaud was executed by the Germans on October 22, 1941, along with 26 other
Marseillaise" before the firing squad. Louis Aragon
also stated: “The name of Timbaud among the Châteaubriant hostages was to be my direct reason, my individual reason to accept the clandestine duty which fell on me.”
Several cities in France, such as Paris and Limoges, have streets named after him. Previously, a street in East Berlin was named Timbaudstraße after him as well, but after German reunification, the street was renamed Fredersdorfer Straße.
Timbaud is the first name on the memorial to Heroes of the French Resistance in
Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
.
Bibliography
- Lucien Monjauvis, Jean-Pierre Timbaud (Editions Sociales, 1971)
- Fernand Grenier, Ceux de Châteaubriand (Editions Sociales, 1971)
- Louis Aragon, Le Témoin des Martyrs (1942)
- Lettres de fusillés 1941-1944
See also
External links
- Le Procès de Riom: Eloge de Jean-Pierre Timbaud et des combattants de Stalingrad, Léon Blum’s statement in favor of Timbaud during the Riom Trial (in French)
- Biography on Timbaud (in French)
- "Berlin: Jean-Pierre Timbaud indésirable", in L'Humanité, September 22, 1990 (in French) (search for "Jean-Pierre Timbaud" on L’Humanité’s English website for translations).
- On 1936 strike organized by Timbaud, in L’Humanité, July 25, 2006 (in French)
- "Châteaubriant, assassinat politique de 27 otages", in L’Humanité, October 20, 2001 (in French) (with the list here of the 27 executed hostages)
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