Théodore Aubert

Théodore Aubert, mars 1939.

Théodore Aubert (8 September 1878, Geneva – 19 January 1963) was a Swiss lawyer and writer.

Biography

Aubert was born to an eminent family of bankers. He studied law at the University of Geneva. He was regional secretary of the Swiss Patriotic Federation, an umbrella organization for civil defense, which was formed in 1918 against the national strike and advocated for the creation of right-wing militant groups.[1] Aubert was party leader of the newly founded Union de défense économique. As a lawyer, he defended the White émigré Maurice Conradi who assassinated the Soviet envoy to Switzerland Vatslav Vorovsky in 1923.

Aubert founded the International Entente Against the Third International in 1924, which was financially supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.[2] From 1935 to 1939 he was a member of the National Council for the fascist Union nationale.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kreuzlingen, Andreas Thürer (2021-01-26). "«Front der Männer der Heimat, des Vaterlandes»". Schweizer Alpen-Club SAC (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2025-07-21.
  2. ^ Caillat, Michael (2014-03-01). "Théodore Aubert and the Entente internationale anticommuniste: an unofficial anti-marxist international". Twentieth Century Communism. 2014 (6).
  3. ^ Cantini, Claude (1992). Les Ultras: extrême droite et droite extrême en Suisse, les mouvements et la presse de 1921 à 1991. Lausanne: Editions d'En Bas. ISBN 978-2-8290-0135-2.
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