Memorial Burgod Reims

Claudius Burgod was born in 1898 in Souk-Ahras (Algeria).
Until 1917 he lived and studied in Tunis.
After his higher studies in France, he worked as a professor of financial mathematics and political economy at the Société Industrielle, an organization for permanent education and knowledge improvement set up by companies.
Burgod was appointed professor at the commercial department of the Collège Arago in Paris in October 1942 and was also an examiner at the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales.
He married in January 1943 and lived with his wife in Paris.

Burgod became one of the leaders of the Reims branch of the Socialist Party SFIO.
In 1935 he was a candidate in the cantonal elections in the 3rd canton of Reims. In the 1936 parliamentary elections he was the candidate of the Socialist Party SFIO.

Several documents posthumously added to his candidacy for the Legion of Honor in 1948 refer to his resistance actions since 1940: intelligence, the Libération-Nord movement in Paris and Reims, the preparation of landing and parachute landing areas, the passage of resistance fighters to England , false papers. At Christmas 1943 he was ambushed. Captured and tortured in Fresnes prison, then in Compiègne, he was deported to Buchenwald at the end of January 1944. He was nicknamed "Our Leader" or "Our Professor" by his companions and was sent to the labor camp in Flossemburg, where he died on March 21, 1945.
According to the memorial plaque, the death occurred in February 1944, but this could not be confirmed anywhere.

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