Léon Gaultier

Léon Gaultier
Born	(1915-02-01)1 February 1915 Bourges
Died	18 July 1997(1997-07-18) (aged 82)
Allegiance	France  Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen-SS
Years of service	1943–45
Rank	SS-Untersturmführer
Battles/wars	World War II
Other work	National Front

Léon Gaultier (1 February 1915 Bourges – 18 July 1997) was a French collaborator.^[1] He was a cofounder of the National Front.

Biography

Léon Gaultier studied classics, and was a professor of history.^[2]

During World War II, he worked with Paul Marion – secrétaire général of Information in the government of Philippe Pétain, was a columnist for " Radio Vichy ", and was one of the founders de la Milice française.

He fought for Germany in the Waffen-SS with the rank of Untersturmführer. He commanded a French unit on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1944. He was seriously wounded in Galicie. He was sentenced to forced labor in 1946. Released on 2 June 1948, he worked for Agence Havas.

Later, he cofounded with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the publishing house SERP (Société d'études et de relations publiques^[3] which specialized in history.

In 1972, he was one of the founders of the National Council of the National Front.^[3] He wrote in Rivarol, he was gradually moved away from the circle of Jean-Marie Le Pen in early 1980. Thereafter, he concentrated on writing memoir.

Works

• Gaultier, Léon (1980), J. Picollec, ed., Catalina de Erauso (in French), Paris, ISBN 978-2-8647-7011-4, OCLC 7255341 .
• Gaultier, León (1982), J. Picollec, ed., "Jean Coëtanlem : le cœur au poing, le lys aux lèvres", Biblio Celtique (in French), Paris, p. 267, ISBN 978-2-8647-7045-9, OCLC 9854275 .
• Gaultier, Léon (1991), Perrin, ed., Siegfried et le Berrichon : parcours d'un "collabo" (in French), Paris, p. 378, ISBN 978-2-2620-0888-8, OCLC 24429779 

Notes

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.