The Bindels family reunion

Mr. Joseph Bindels was born on 2 Moresnet in 1864, while his future wife, Mrs. Gertrude Hagelstein was born in Moresnet-Neutre.

This union was blessed with the birth of five children who, in turn, have already given birth to twenty-one grandchildren. It is all these descendants who, on Saturday evening, at the Sélect in La Calamine, met around a well-stocked table and, certainly, this reunion made it possible to get to know each other better. But already, the next objective will be to reunite the whole family, including the great-grandchildren. Initial estimates now exceed 160 people.

But, this gathering there, it is not for now. (Photo - The Courier 1984???).

German beers in PERU - Fredrich Bindels.

The most important breweries founded and owned by Germans are "Compañía Nacional de Cerveza" later known as "Pilsen Callao" and "Cervecería Alemana" which changed their name to "Cervesur".

The first brewery officially established in the city port of Callao in1863 it seems, was already producing before that date under the name of the German citizen Fredrich Bindels who sold it to the Alsacian Alois Kieffer in 1869.

In the following years , this beer won awards in Lima (1872 and 1876) and in Paris (1878).

After Kieffers passed away in May 1888, his wife and children tried to continue running the company, but ultimately it was sold to a group of Peruvian and Italian investors in 1902.

"Pilsen Callao" was a symbol of good Peruvian brewing tradition until 1994 when all the shares were sold to Backus and Johnston ...

Painter - Willy Bindels 1908-19 (64-65?).

Very noticed on the quays by the Concarnois, Willy Bindels had the reputation of an "original" painter most often "between two waters".

A sickly child with a fragile heart, he was born in Vaals in Holland.

After the death of his wife, he arrived from Brussels in 1948 for Spain and stopped in Concarneau to spend a month there.
He settled in the city of painters and opened a studio on the avenue de la gare.
According to Madame Vaslet "the Breton light troubled him and he was angry for a long time because he could not translate it.

He went on the subject, crisscrossing Brittany on a moped. With his equipment on the luggage rack.

He then interpreted his vision. in workshop.
He only exhibited once at the Rayer Hotel, and sold his paintings to "acquaintances".

He died in 1964-65 following a heart attack.
His works, very structured, sometimes "sloppy" express with expressionist violence predominantly urban landscapes.

They offer an exacerbated interpretation, a singular look in opposition to the myriad of too often academic subjects devoted to Concarneau.

Commander Victor Bindel (Avranches - France)

Victor Marie Louis Bindel, born in Huisnes-sur-Mer on August 9, 1883 died in Avranches on June 5, 1962.
He was incorporated into the 48th infantry regiment on November 4, 1904 in Guingamp (Côtes d'Armor) and rose through the ranks (corporal, sergeant, master sergeant in 1907 and quartermaster sergeant in 1912).

He married on December 1, 1908 with Marie Gauchet and will be the father of two daughters.

On August 5, 1914, he was assigned to the 202nd reserve infantry regiment as sergeant major, then second lieutenant in 1915. This regiment formed in Granville in the first days of August 1914 was made up of reservists from the 'Avranchin and the Mortainais, he left by train for the front and participated in several attacks. Victor Bindel was shot in the head on June 7, 1915 in Bois-Sabot in the town of Souain (Marne), then evacuated.
He returned to the depot with the rank of lieutenant.

He was then appointed as an instructor at the center for aspirants in Saint-Maixent (Deux-Sèvres).
Promoted captain in 1920, he was on a mission in Morocco from 1921 to 1923.

Back in Avranches, in 1930 he bought a house at 52 rue de Mortain, in the portion of the street which would become rue du Commandant-Bindel. He remained there until his death, as did his widow and his youngest daughter, owner until 2007.

He was vice-president of the association of "Colonials of Avranchin".
Mobilized on August 25, 1939 while he was in retreat, in June 1940 he took part in the fighting around Cherbourg against the German invasion of Cotentin. A few hours before the armistice, he ordered all the posts in the Octeville sector under his command to resist excessively against the German offensive. He thus prevents the thousands of soldiers in the garrison from being taken prisoner.

This earned him the congratulations of the general, commanding the place.
He was taken prisoner on June 18, 1940.

Returned to his homes in Avranches, in November 1942 he created the center for mutual aid for prisoners of war and their families. This allows, from February 1943, until the end of the war, to send every month a package to each of.

After the bombings of June 1944, he organized mutual aid services (distribution of food, clothing, furniture, etc.) to the victims of Avranches and six cantons. He was delegate, then honorary president of this mutual aid center from 1944 to its dissolution.
The Commandant-Bindel foyer, located at Place d'Estouteville, continues this tradition.

He was the first mayor of Avranches elected after the Liberation in 1945. Until 1953, he worked on the Reconstruction of Avranches with Léon Jozeau-Marigné, then municipal councilor.
He was notably president of the Red Cross until 1961.

Tributes

In Avranches, rue du Commandant-Bindel paid tribute to him, as well as a meeting room (the foyer du Commandant-Bindel).

Distinctions

• 1914-1918 war cross
• Commander of Nicham El Amouar
• Combatant's cross
• Colonial Medal
• Knight of the Legion of Honor by decree of July 9, 1924, as captain of the 48th infantry regiment.
• Officer of the Legion of Honor by decree of February 10, 1951, as honorary president of the support center for prisoners and their families.

Religious history of Napoleon - Abbe Victor Bindel.

• Volume I: the Bishops of Bonaparte, preface by M. Paul Claudel;
• Volume II: The Imperial Church. - Paris, Jouve, 1940. 2 volumes in-8 ° of 215 and 239 pages.

Father Bindel publishes two volumes of a Religious History of Napoleon which itself seems to be part of a Religious History of France in the 19th century.

These two volumes have as subtitles: The Bishops of Bonaparte and the Imperial Church, which should roughly be understood as follows: the author first studies the training of ecclesiastical executives of France under the Consulate, until the coronation; then the interior life of the reconstituted Gallican Church.

A third volume announced, the Vatican in Paris, will lead us to Napoleon's religious policy in Europe and to the conflict between the emperor and the pope.

The subject is broad and attractive. The achievement, unfortunately, has so far been disappointing.

(André Latreille)