Jacques Peirotes
Jacques Laurent Peirotes (11 September 1869 Strasbourg – 4 September 1935) was a French and German politician, mayor of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1929.[1]
Biography
The young Jacques Peirotes, son of a carpenter working at the locomotives factory of Graffenstaden, learned the job of typographer while entering into politics.
Since 1900, he was editor of the Freie Presse (Free Press) that was an organ of the Strasbourg branch of the Social Democratic Party which he joined in 1895. In 1902, he became its political manager. In 1913, the newspaper was printed in 9,500 units.
He came into the town council of Strasbourg in 1902 and was elected councilor of the southern canton of the Kreis Straßburg (Stadt) in 1903. He also was deputy in the second chamber of the
in 1912.When the
Elected mayor of Strasbourg in 1919 and reelected in 1925, he created a 'municipal office for cheap accommodations' which built 3,000 social apartments in ten years. He was beaten in the 1929 election by a coalition of communists and autonomists that led Charles Hueber to the town hall.
A street was later named after him in the Swiss quarter of Strasbourg (Krutenau).
Footnotes
- ISBN 978-2-7384-5194-1, p. 382 read online
- Republic of Alsace-Lorraine [...]. The same day, the socialist Jacques Peirotes, elected mayor of Strasbourg, also proclaim the Republic in front of the statue of the general Kléber. The 11th, the low room of the Landtag sets up as National Council and invest Eugène Ricklinas chief of government, replaced as soon as the day after by Peirotes. The 13th, the red flag flutters over the cathedral. Epic debates oppose the councils of soldiers and workers to the elected officials in a confused atmosphere. Solicited by the anxious notables, the French troops then decide to advance their arrival ..."
Bibliography
- Jean-Claude Richez, Léon Strauss, François Igersheim, Stéphane Jonas, 1869-1935, Jacques Peirotes et le socialisme en Alsace, BF Éditions, Strasbourg, 1989, 220 p. read online : Danièle Voldman, Vingtième Siècle – Revue d'histoire, 1990, Nr 1, p. 135.
Sources
This article is a translation of the similar article in the French Wikipedia.