Docteur Charles MARX

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Docteur Charles MARX

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• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: uwafyduv
• Nombre de lectures: 193
• Langue: Français

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Bull. Soc. Sci. Méd.

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Vignette historique

Docteur Charles MARX

1903-1946

Georges Erasme MullER

J’habiterai mon nom

Saint-John Perse (1887-1975)

Abstract:

Charles Marx (1903-1946) an outstanding Luxembourg physician was a com-

munist. He had very weIl succeeded in his medical studies in Paris starting as

an interne (1929), to become «chef de clinique chirurgicale», then a «Lauréat de

l’Académie de Médecine» and finally a member of the «Comité de l’Associa-

tion française de Chirurgie» (1935). He founded his own hospital (50 beds) in

Ettelbruck. There, in 1940, he helped two interned French airmen, to escape to

France. Charles Marx escaped himself, with his family, just before the German

invasion. He briefly directed four French hospitals, in Nevers and in Quillan. In

July he founded the first resistance group of the «Armée secrète», which in May

1943 was followed by a first maquis in the western Pyrenees. In June 43, he was

condemned to death «in absentia» in Montpellier by the Nazis. In February 1944

Charles Marx was appointed medical commander of the FFI and chief health ma-

nager of the Resistance in the oriental Pyrenees. In September 1944 he took part

in the liberation of Lyon. In October, being the delegate of the medical resistance

council, he was named attaché to the Health Minister and was charged to organize

French-American military surgical structures.

End of July he took up the management of the Ettelbruck hospital. In November

1945 he was nominated minister of Public Health in Luxembourg. In June 1946

Charles Marx and his Rumanian wife lost their lives in a car accident.

Key words:

Charles Marx, Luxembourg, Communist, Medical career, World

War II France, Resistance, Public Health minister, Biography.

Docteur Georges E. Muller, 23, rue du Château, l-4433 Soleuvre