André Diethelm
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André Diethelm | |
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Senator | |
In office 1948–1951 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Bourg-en-Bresse | July 3, 1896
Died | January 11, 1954 Paris | (aged 57)
Political party | Farmers' Social Union Party [fr] |
Other political affiliations | Rally of the French People |
André Diethelm (3 July 1896 – 11 January 1954) was born in
Early life and education
He pursued a secondary education in Foix. He was admitted to the prestigious École normale supérieure in Paris in 1914, but the war interrupted his studies just as they began.
Career
Diethelm fought in the
After the war, he returned to the École normale supérieure but in 1919 he gave up taking the
French Resistance
Joining Free France, he was appointed commissioner for the Interior, Labour and Information, by de Gaulle, then for Finance and Pensions, and finally for Finance, the Economy and the Merchant Navy under the French National Committee in 1941–1943. He was the first director of the Caisse centrale of Free France [fr].
In the government of Algiers (
Deputy of the Vosges in the Constitutional Assembly of 1945 [fr], he then sat on the Council of the Republic from 1948 to 1951. Then he was deputy for the Seine-et-Oise department in 1951. He succeeded Jacques Soustelle as President of the Rally of the French People (RPF) faction in the National Assembly, then chaired the Union of Republicans for Social Action [fr] (URAS). Sickness forced him to give up his post, which was taken over by Jacques Chaban-Delmas. President Vincent Auriol asked him to form a government on 24 May 1953, but he refused.
Death
Diethelm died on 11 January 1954 in Paris.[citation needed]
See also
- Allies of World War II
- André Philip
- Émile Muselier
- Foreign policy of Charles de Gaulle
- Free French Africa
- French Colonial Empire
- French Fourth Republic
- French Resistance
- French Third Republic
- Georges Catroux
- Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
- Jean Moulin
- Liberation of France
- Liberation of Paris
- Martial Valin
- Military history of France during World War II
- Paul Legentilhomme
- Philippe Auboyneau
- Philippe Pétain
- Provisional Government of the French Republic
- René Pleven
- Vichy France
References
- ^ Tirouflet 2012.
- ^ Maury, Jean-Pierre (2007). "Le Comité français de la libération nationale" [The French Committee of National Liberation]. MJP digitheque (in French). University of Perpignan. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
Works cited
- ISBN 978-2-35039-148-9.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-2-84876-148-0.
as quoted in el Saad-2010
- el Saad, Lamia (2010). "L'ombre du général de Gaulle" [The Shadow of General de Gaulle]. L'Orient littéraire (in French). L'Orient Le Jour.
- ISBN 2-84654-067-5.