Émile Laffon
Émile Laffon (born June 20, 1907 in Carcassonne , † August 20, 1957 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and politician.
Life
He studied mining engineering and law in Béziers , Nîmes and Paris and was admitted to the bar from 1935 to 1939.
From 1943 to 1944 he represented the French National Liberation Committee under the code name Lachaux to the National Council of Resistance in Algiers . After Liberation he worked as a ministerial director in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1945, as administrator general, he took over the development and management of the military administration in the French occupation zone . Differences with the commander -in- chief, Marie-Pierre Kœnig , led him to resign in 1947.
From 1947 to 1952 he was President of the Board of Directors of the northern French coal mines. He was président-directeur général of the mining companies Le Nickel , Compagnie Française des Minerais d'Uranium and Société des Mines de Fer de Mauritanie .
Laffon died of a brain haemorrhage.
swell
- Reinhard Grohnert: The denazification in Baden 1945-1949, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991
- Obituary (in French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laffon, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carcassonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1957 |
| Place of death | Paris |