Paul Teitgen, born on February 6, 1919 in Colombe-lès-Vesoul and died on October 13, 1991 in Saint-Cloud, a member of the Resistance since 1940 and deported first to the Struthof camp in Alsace then to Dachau, during the Second World War, was Secretary General of the Algiers Prefecture, in charge of general policing during the Algerian War, between August 1956 and September 1957. He is known for having opposed the use of torture during the Battle of Algiers. Paul Teitgen, gr…
