Maurice Èmile Aenishanslin
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Maurice Emile Aenishanslin (20 September 1893 – 19 October 1968) was a French engineer who became a committed French communist, a member of the Communist Party of Switzerland and later a member of the Communist International (Comintern). Aenishanslin later became a commercial director of the Paris-based company Unipectine-France, the branch office of a food preservation company that was based in Zurich called Unipectine. During World War II, Aenishanslin main business was interposed with clandestine work as a courier for the Paris-based Soviet espionage network run by Comintern agent Henry Robinson. Aenishanslin survived the war and was still active as a communist.
Life
Aenishanslin was a French national who was born into a Swiss family from Basel in Switzerland who were Calvinists. He became a communist after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
On the 3 July 1926 Aenishanslin married Gabrielle Lucile Schneider in Blois in Loir-et-Cher. In 1933, the couple separated. Just prior to the start of the war, Aenishanslin married his secretary, Edwige Couchon, a communist activist, who worked as an accountant for the communist daily newspaper Ce soir and as an activist in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The couple lived in an apartment at 25, Rue Raynouard in Passy in the 16th arrondissement.
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