Edouard Ramonet

Édouard Jean Ramonet (born September 14, 1909 in Cerbère , Département Pyrénées-Orientales ; † December 4, 1980 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste (RRRS) and later the Center républicain (CR), who was a member of the National Assembly , Secretary of State and Minister of Industry and Trade between 1958 and 1959.

Life

Studies, diplomat and World War II

Ramonet, the son of a barber, began after the visit of the renowned founded in 1564 Lycée Louis-le-Grand , a study of history at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris , and later at the University of Florence . After completing his studies with the Agrégé d'histoire , he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an attaché in 1937 . In 1938 he became general secretary of the Jeunesses Radicales Socialistes (JRS), the youth organization of the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste (RRRS). He was then appointed director of the Institut français in Porto by Jérôme Carcopino .

In May 1942, the appointment was revoked at the urging of Abel Bonnard by Pierre Laval , the list of heads of government of France collaborating with the German Reich and who was also the foreign minister responsible for Institut français .

Fourth republic

MP and Mayor

On October 21, 1945 Ramonet was elected member of the National Assembly for the RRRS and was a member of the National Assembly as a representative of the Indre department until December 8, 1958. The National Assembly existed from October 21, 1945 to November 27, 1946 as a provisional constituent national assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante) , whose first legislative period ran until June 10, 1946. During this time he was a member of the Committees for Economy, Customs and Trade Conditions (Commission des affaires économiques, des douanes et des conventions commerciales) and for Agriculture and Supply (Commission de l'agriculture et du ravitaillement) . In the second legislative term of the National Constituent Assembly in 1946, he became secretary of the RRRS parliamentary group , chaired by Édouard Herriot , on June 2, 1946 , and remained a member of the Committee on Economy, Customs and Trade Conditions.

In the first legislative term of the National Assembly of the Fourth Republic , he was a member of the Economic Committee (Commission des affaires économiques) from 1946 to 1951 and Secretary of the National Assembly between 1946 and 1949. In October 1947, he succeeded Pierre Gautier from the PCF and also became mayor of Châteauroux , the capital of the Indre department, and held this office until he was replaced by Louis Deschizeaux from the DVG in March 1959. He was also a member between 1947 and 1951 of the Education Committee (Commission de l'éducation nationale) , from 1948 to 1950 also Secretary of the Economic Committee and most recently between 1950 and 1951 also a member of the Press Committee (Commission de la presse) . During the second legislative term between June 1951 and June 1952 he was again Secretary of the National Assembly and a member of the press committee. He was then chairman of the economic committee between 1952 and 1955 and, most recently, a member of the press committee again in 1955.

State Secretary and Minister

After the elections of January 2, 1956, Ramonet acted again as chairman of the economic committee in the third legislative period from 1956 to 1957. On June 14, 1957, he took over his first government office, until November 5, 1957 as State Secretary for Energy (Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Energie) at the Minister for Finance, Economy and Planning in the Bourgès-Maunoury cabinet . Between 1957 and 1958 he was a member of the Committee on Universal Suffrage, Constitutional Law, Rules of Procedure and Petitions (Commission du suffrage universel, des lois constitutionnelles, du règlement et des pétitions) and the Committee on Communication and Tourism (Commission des moyens de communication et du tourisme) .

On June 1, 1958, Ramonet was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Industrie et au commerce) in the third cabinet of de Gaulle . Less than a week later, on June 9, 1958, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the resulting post of Minister for Industry and Commerce (Ministre de l'Industrie et du commerce) , which he held until the end of de Gaulle's term on January 7, 1959 clothed.

Fifth Republic

In the elections of November 30, 1958, he suffered a defeat in his constituency in the Indre department and missed re-entry into the National Assembly. After leaving the government, Ramonet became a member of the Economic and Social Council (Conseil économique et social) at the beginning of the Fifth Republic in June 1959 , to which he was a member until 1964.

He refused to run again in the elections of November 25, 1962. In the elections of March 12, 1967, he ran again unsuccessfully for a seat in the National Assembly in the first constituency of the Pyrénées-Orientales department and then withdrew from political life back.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 (rulers.org)