Pierre Georges known as Colonel Fabien says Frédo, was militant a communist and resistant French (January 21st 1919, Paris - December 27th 1944, Habsheim).

Pre-war period

His/her father was baker, his mother died in 1928. He starts to work very young person and becomes apprentice baker, then layer of Rivet S on the building sites of Railroad and finally fitter. He adheres to the Party at the fourteen years age and engages in the international Brigades at seventeen years, in 1936. Sent to the school of officers of the base of Albacete, it leaves in January 1938 there with a rank equivalent to second lieutenant. Wounded with three recoveries, it is also victim of a Pneumonie. Returned to France in June 1938, it makes a school for metallurgist and becomes again working with the establishments Bréguet.

He is elected at the central committee of the JC (Communist youths). Of its marriage with Andree Coudrier, it had a little girl in 1940. Internee like Communist militant in December (November?) 1939, after the signature of the pact germano-Soviet, it escapes in June 1940 during a transfer in the train and renews contact with the Party with Marseilles where it is devoted to a series of clandestine activities under the pseudonym of Fredo. Gone up with Paris to take part in the direction of the JC, it is charged by the Party with assembling the first armed group.

Resistance

It becomes in 1941 the assistant of the colonel Albert Ouzoulias, chief of the “Bataillons of Youth”, members of the Francs-tireurs and in favor (ftp). It carried out itself what was regarded as the first murder attempt against the troops of occupation by killing an officer of the Kriegsmarine, the Aspirant Moser, the August 21st 1941, with the subway Barbès - Rochechouart. This attack and those which followed involved reprisals on behalf of the German (See interior Résistance française#La urban guerilla warfare).

The March 8th 1942, it leaves to Franche-Comté and sets up one of first maquis ftp under the name of war of “colonel Fabien”. It is seriously wounded with the head on October 25th, 1942. The French police force stops it in Paris on November 30th, 1942, and delivers it to the Germans. He is questioned and tortured, three months pass to Fresnes, are transferred to the prison from Dijon and escape finally from the fort from Romainville about May 1943. It takes part then in the organization of maquis in the Vosges, in Haute-Saône and in Center-North.

Release

It takes part in the Libération of Paris in August 1944. It is him whom one finds with the head of a group of FFI to take by storm the palate of Luxembourg and which will receive the support of the tanks the avant-garde of the 2nd dB. Colonel Fabien gathers a group of five hundred men, mainly originating in Suresnes, to continue the fight against the German army with the French and allied forces: the “Brigade of Paris”. This brigade is attached, initially, with division Patton . Then, it becomes the 151 {{E}} regiment of infantry in the Army of Lattre de Tassigny, and will fight in the east of France then in Germany.

The December 27th 1944, it is killed by the explosion of a mine which it was examining, with Habsheim close to Mulhouse (Alsace). The exact circumstances of its death remain badly established. Its liaison officer Gilberte Lavaire, the lieutenant-colonel Dax (Marcel Pimpaud 1912-1944) its right-hand man, two captains, a lieutenant perish with him.

The father and the father-in-law of Pierre Georges were shot by the Germans.

Posthumous

A subway station, a place of the XIXe district of Paris bear the name of the Colonel Fabien and another place to Nancy in the old city; the seat of the French Communist party is located on this place is often called same name.

The writer Alphonse Boudard who belonged to the regiment of Fabien of drew up a portrait in the hearse of Jules .