Georges Oltramare

Georges Oltramare ( born April 17, 1896 in Geneva, † August 16, 1960 ) was a Swiss politician ( National Union ).

Life

In 1927 he received the Welti- price of 3,000 francs for his novel Don Juan ou la solitude. An organized by him political event led to the unrest in Geneva in 1932. Between 1933 and 1936 he was one of the founders of the Union at the Geneva National Grand Council.

From 1936 to 1938, more than ten times Oltramare visits Benito Mussolini. In 1940 he settled in occupied Paris, where he first took over the management to a study published by the German occupying forces newspaper and then on the radio and for other newspapers became active.

The extreme right-wing Oltramare was sentenced in 1947 by the Federal Court for crimes against the independence of Switzerland to three years in prison; 1950, a court in Paris convicted him in absentia for collaboration to death.

Family

His brother André Oltramare was social democratic politician and philosopher Jeanne Hersch partners of. According to the CIA, he was said to be working for the spy network Red Three.