Édouard Fuchs
Édouard Fuchs (born February 11, 1896 in Mulhouse , † January 2, 1992 in Riedisheim ) was a French MP ( UPR ).
Life
Edward Fuchs was the fifth child in a working class family. He first attended the Ecole des Frères de Mulhouse, where he took evening courses on bookkeeping, correspondence and languages. He did an apprenticeship in a textile factory and later worked as an office clerk in a bank.
On September 21, 1914, he was drafted by the German military authorities and did military service . He fought on the Romanian front and was taken prisoner of war in early 1918. He was released to France from prisoner-of-war camps in Romania and Russia. On April 22, 1918, he joined the French army and was deployed in North Africa. In 1919 he was demobilized and then worked in the administration des contributions indirectes part of the French financial administration. He later worked in banking, commerce and industry. From 1926 to 1930 he was the department secretary of the League of Catholic Alsatians (Ligue des catholiques d'Alsace).
Édouard Fuchs was a member of the Union populaire républicaine (UPR). In the elections to the French Chamber of Deputies in 1936, he ran in the constituency of Mulhouse-campagne. In the first ballot on April 26th, Fuchs took first place with 9,656 votes out of 23,846 voters. In the runoff election nor the Socialist Eisenring came with 5,156 votes. The candidates Becher (Republican Left, 4,446 votes) and Kayser ( PCF , 3,477 votes) were eliminated. In the runoff election on May 3, Fuchs prevailed with 14,007 votes against Eisenring with 8,317 votes and was the successor to Médard Brogly (UPR), who had previously represented the constituency.
In the Chamber he was a member of the Indépendants d'action populaire and the committees for Alsace and Lorraine, hygiene and public works and communication. A decree of July 1939 extended the mandate in the Chamber of All Deputies during the Second World War until May 31, 1942. On July 10, 1940 he was one of the deputies who voted in Vichy for the constitution and government of Philippe Pétain . After the war, he no longer applied for a mandate.
literature
- Christian Baechler: Édouard Fuchs . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Faszikel 12, 1988, p. 1072.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French MP (UPR) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1992 |
| Place of death | Riedisheim |