André Eugène Marcel Pourchier (1 June 1897 – 1 September 1944)[1] was a French military officer whose last rank was Lieutenant-Colonel.

He was a chasseurs alpins soldier and a member of his hometown's winter sports club, which was founded in 1924.

[2] As a Lieutenant, he was the leader of the national military patrol team at the 1928 Winter Olympics (demonstration event), which finished last.

[3] Because of his expertise, he was made the first commander and captain of the newly founded French mountain warfare school École de Haute Montagne (EHM) in Chamonix in 1932.

[5][6] He recruited Pierre Dalloz, an engineer who supported his drawings of detailed alpine maps after 1941.