Laure Diebold

Biography

Exit of an Alsatian family very patriotic, Laure Mutschler passed most of its youth to Holy-Marie-with-Mines where his/her parents had been established in 1922. At the end of its studies, the Laure, occupation Nazi day before entered as secretary to the Baumgartner Establishments. Since 1940, Laure Mutschler joins the resistance movement Dr. Bareiss gathered under the initials of A.V. (= Armed with Volunteers) and with the pseudonym of " Mado" it became a liaison officer of the network " Mithidate ", prolonged as far as Alsace by Alfred Rebert. Thus very often it deal with prisoners of war of which it lodged a great part in the paternal residence, 4 rue Jean Jaurès, like at its been engaged, the secretary of the town hall, Eugene Diebolt. At the time of “funny of war”, she worked as secretary of an industrialist of Saint-Dié. After the armistice, it remains in Alsace and joined an organization of frontier runners for the escaped prisoners, but, located by the German , it must leave the Alsace, and, the day before Christmas 1941, it goes to Lyon, hidden in an engine.

She works as secretary for the service of the refugees of Alsace - Lorraine and enters starting from May 1942 the network “Mithridate”, where, in the capacity as escape and liaison officer, she collects information which she codes and makes pass in the form of mail to London.

The January 31st 1942, Laure Mutschler married Eugene Diebold, which had taken refuge like it in Lyon. In July 1942, it is stopped first once with her husband, but the two resistant ones are slackened fault of evidence. Taken refuge to Aix-the-Baths, Laure Diebold passes in clandestinity and becomes “Mona”.

Engaged in the Free French Army, under the name of “Mado”, it is assigned to the Regional delegation in September 1942, in the capacity as P.2 agent with the rank of lieutenant. It is then the secretary of Jean Moulin and deploys an extraordinary activity, working day and night for the Delegation. After the arrest of Jean Moulin, in June 1943, it goes to Paris and continues same work at the sides of Georges Bidault.

Again stopped in company of her husband the September 24th 1943 and led to the Prison of Fresnes, it manages to escape the Torture while having succeeded in convincing the Gestapo which it did nothing but be used as letter-box. Initially sent to Schirmeck in January 1944, it is then off-set with Auschwitz, where, without it knowing it, is already his/her husband. Sent to the camp of Ravensbrück, it is transferred close to Altenburg, with the Kommando de Meuselwitz which depends on Buchenwald, then, the October 6th 1944, with the Kommando de Taucha (close to Leipzig) also depending on Buchenwald. Seriously sick, it would have to die there in the Crematorium, without the miraculous intervention of a Czech doctor of the laboratory of the camp which retracted its card twice thus saving it unquestionable death.

Released in April 1945 by the American , it returns to Paris, where it arrives, very weakened, the May 16th 1945, and finds there her husband, also return of deportation.

After its return of the camps, Laure Diebold is made to Compagnon of the Release, named chevalier of the Legion of Honor, decorated with the Military Cross 1939-1945 and with the Médaille of Resistance with Rosette.

She dies in Lyon the October 17th 1965 and was buried according to her Sainte Marie-with-Mines desire where she had passed to her childhood and known her husband.

A street of Lyon and a place of Holy-Marie-with-Mines bear the name of Laure Diebold.

External bonds

detailed Biography of Laure Diebold on the site about the Release

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