Jean-Pierre Timbaud

Jean-Pierre Timbaud (Payzac, Dordogne, September 20, 1904 – Chateaubriant, October 22, 1941) was the secretary of the steelworkers’ trade union section of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT).

During the Second World War, he joined the Resistance and organized clandestine trade union committees.

Jean-Pierre Timbaud was executed by the Germans on October 22, 1941, along with 26 other Communist hostages detained in Châteaubriant, in punishment of the October 20 execution of Feldkommandant Karl Hotz, commander of the German troops in the Loire-Inférieure region, who was assassinated in Nantes by Resistants.

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Timbaud is the first name on the memorial to Heroes of the French Resistance in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Portrait of Jean-Pierre Timbaud, published in L'Humanité on April 20, 1933
Monument to heroes of the French Resistance, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris