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Philippe de Gunzbourg was born on 1904, is a WWII French spy. Discover Philippe de Gunzbourg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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1904

Baron Philippe de Gunzbourg LdH CdG MBE (1904–1986) was a French aristocrat who became a Special Operations Executive agent during the World War II.

Philippe Georges de Gunzbourg was born in Paris on 17 February 1904, the son of Baron Pierre de Gunzburg (the son of Baron Horace Günzburg), a banker, and Yvonne Deutsch de La Meurthe.

A relative, Aline de Gunzbourg, married the British writer and philosopher Isaiah Berlin.

He studied in Paris and Oxford.

1933

He finished second in the 1933 Le Mans 24 Hours motor race.

1942

In November 1942 after the German occupation of Vichy France, he made contact with Maurice Pertschuk, organiser of the PRUNUS network in Toulouse, and joined him as courier.

The wireless operator was Marcus Bloom.

1943

Philippe de Gunzbourg noted that Pertschuk had a reckless lack of security, with resistance leaders sharing tables in black-market restaurants in Toulouse and speaking in English, and on 12 April 1943 Pertschuk, Bloom, and several of their key colleagues were arrested.

They were possibly betrayed by double agent Roger Bardet.

Pertschuk was deported to Buchenwald, Bloom to Mauthausen, and both were executed.

The PRUNUS network collapsed after their arrest, though de Gunzbourg escaped and transferred to the WHEELWRIGHT network of George Starr, where he worked until liberation.

After the war, he devoted himself to agriculture, agri-food, and prunes.

He was one of the pioneers of France-Prune, and its first president.

1969

A profitable outlet for agriculture, '' with H. Farcy, "The Earth" collection, Flammarion, 1969.

1986

He died on 10 July 1986, aged 82, and was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Léon.

2002

In Losse (Landes), a stele inaugurated on 23 May 2002 quotes Philippe de Gunzbourg as part of a tribute to seven other agents brought to France nearby during five airdrops between August 1943 and April 1944: Maurice Southgate, organiser of the STATIONER network; four agents for the WHEELWRIGHT network of George Starr: Yvonne Cormeau, radio operator, Anne-Marie Walters, courier, Claude Arnault, saboteur instructor, and Denis Parsons, radio operator; two agents for the SCHOLAR network: Gonzague de Saint-Geniès, network organiser, and Yvonne Baseden, radio operator.

Place Philippe de Gunzbourg in Bergerac is named after him.

''Tourism and rural environment.