[Doctor Charles Marx 1903-1946].
Charles Marx (1903-1946) an outstanding Luxembourg physician was a communist. He had very well succeeded in his medical studies in Paris starting as an interne (1929), to become "chef de clinique chirurgicale", then a "Lauréat de l'Académie de Médecine" and finally a member of the "Comité de l'Association française de Chirurgie" (1935). He founded his own hospital (50 beds) in Ettelbruck. There, in 1940, he helped two interned French airmen, to escape to France. Charles Marx escaped himself, with his family, just before the German invasion. He briefly directed four French hospitals, in Nevers and in Quillan. In July he founded the first resistance group of the "Armée secrète", which in May 1943 was followed by a first maquis in the western Pyrenees. In June 43, he was condemned to death "in absentia" in Montpellier by the Nazis. In February 1944 Charles Marx was appointed medical commander of the FFI and chief health manager of the Resistance in the oriental Pyrenees. In September 1944 he took part in the liberation of Lyon. In October, being the delegate of the medical resistance council, he was named attaché to the Health Minister and was charged to organize French-American military surgical structures. End of July he took up the management of the Ettelbruck hospital. In November 1945 he was nominated minister of Public Health in Luxembourg. In June 1946 Charles Marx and his Rumanian wife lost their lives in a car accident.
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