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Maurice Èmile Aenis-Hanslin
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Maurice Èmile Aenis-Hanslin (20 September 1893 – 19 October 1968) was a committed French communist who was a member of the Communist Party of Switzerland and later a member of the Communist International (Comintern). Aenis-Hanslin first worked as an engineer, 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, Aenis-Hanslin main business was interposed with clandestine work as a courier for the Paris-based Soviet espionage network run by Comintern agent Henry Robinson. Aenis-Hanslin survived the war and was still active as a communist.
Aenis-Hanslin 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 Aenis-Hanslin married Gabrielle Lucile Schneider in Blois in Loir-et-Cher. In 1933, the couple separated. Just prior to the start of the war, Aenis-Hanslin 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.
Aenis-Hanslin became a member of the Communist Party of Switzerland and rose to become an official of the central committee and an important member of the Communist International (Comintern). He trained as an engineer and was gradually attracted to the food industry. He became the general agent of a large Swiss company that manufactured distillation equipment and this in turn led him to an interest in the use of apple pectin for use as a food preservation. This led to a company being established in Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich with the name of Unipectine in the early 1930's, with capital supplied from Karl Hofmaier who at the time was treasurer of the Swiss Communist Party.
Aenis-Hanslin used a luxury apartment at 31 Rue Amsterdam in Paris, that the group used as a safehouse for the group.
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