Brunschwig-Bordier, Jacques

Date of birth:: October 21st, 1905 (Avignon, France)
Date of death:: April 21st, 1977 (Paris, France)
Nationality:: French (1870-present, Republic)

Biography

Polytechnician, he graduated as a second lieutenant in Engineering. He then joined the Ministry of the Interior, as an administrator.

In January 1942, he was recruited by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, who made him his second in the Liberation-Sud resistance movement. He was arrested in May of the same year and was interned at Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille. Released, he resumed his activities in the resistance and acted as interim leader of the movement for a few months.

In disagreement with the direction of the movement, he left Liberation-Sud in January 1943 and joined the Liberation-North movement, where he was in charge of political affairs and served as the movement's acting delegate general between February and April 1943. Being in England in October 1943, he was appointed to represent Liberation-Nord at the Provisional Consultative Assembly in Algiers. Parachuted near Saint-Aignan (Cher) on March 31, 1944, he returned to his duties as general delegate within Liberation-Nord, with the help of his wife Fernande.

On June 20, 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Paris, rue de Lobau, under the alias of Jean Bordier. Tortured, then interned in Fresnes, he was deported to Buchenwald on August 15, 1944, then to Dora and to the Nordhausen prison. He managed to escape on April 4, 1945 with two other prisoners.

Battalion commander at the end of the war, he ensured after it important administrative functions within the Ministry of Air, then that of the Interior. He thus occupies the functions of director of cabinet of the minister Louis Terrenoire and of head of the General Inspectorate of the administration of the Ministry of the Interior.

He also became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Houillères du Bassin de la Loire.

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