Alphonse de Châteaubriant

Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (25 March 1877 - 2 May, 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel "Monsieur de Lourdines". After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate for National Socialism. He was a member of the central committee of the "Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme", an organisation founded in 1941 by Fernand de Brinon and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germans in Russia. In 1945 he fled to Austria, where he lived under the alias Dr. Alfred Wolf until his death at a monastery in Kitzbühel.