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Charles Gogumus

Known for
Saboteur
Born
Died

Biography

Born in Dijon (Burgundy, France) the Unionist militant revolutionary, anarchist and antimilitarist Charles Louis Jean Baptiste Gogumus. He was the son of the rentiers Joseph Gogumus, then postman, and of Loise Elisabeth Strohl. In the past made employee job in a news warehouse in Dijon, where he created a syndicate. In 1906 settled in Paris as a salesman of wool. Two years later it goes found the Union of Employees of the Parisian Region and in 1909, as a secretary of this union, acted numerous times to the great warehouses. He was a member of the Confederation committee General Labor (CGT), but also of the Communist Anarchist Federation Revolutionary (FACR) and always goes advocate in strike meetings the use of direct action, boycott and the sabotage. In 1911 the police have him signed as head of the sabotage, in groups of 10 militants, in the Parisian department stores (to turn the shop windows, break glass, sulfuric acid pumps, eggs ink stuffed...). That same year becomes administrator of the newspaper La Bataille Syndicaliste, which will be the origin of the creation, in June 1913, of the Committee for the Defence of Soldiers, of which he will be treasurer. Divorced by Jeanne Pierrette Brintet, the 18 August of In 1914 he married Julie in the 20th district of Paris Lagnier. In this He worked as a representative. Charles Gogumus died of tuberculosis on June 24, 1915 at his home, at number 12 bis of Hoche Avenue, Noisy-le-Sec (Ile-de-France, France) – in death Françoies Marie, administrator of La Bataille Syndicaliste and the recently deputy Pierre Laval – ; He was cremated four days later in the cemetery Parisian of Père-Lachaise and his ashes were covers the cemetery of Les Lilas (Ile-de-France, France).