Émile Pelletier

Émile Amédée Pelletier (born February 11, 1898 in Saint-Brieuc , Département Côtes-du-Nord ; † December 15, 1975 ) was a French civil servant and politician who, among other things, was prefect of various departments , minister of the interior between 1958 and 1959 and most recently from 1959 until 1962 was Minister of State of Monaco .

Life

Pelletier joined the administration in 1915 after attending school and in 1917 became deputy head of cabinet of the Prefect of the Loire-Atlantique department . In the following period he worked in other administrations, namely from 1920 to 1922 in the sub-prefecture of the arrondissement of Mulhouse , from 1922 to 1925 in the arrondissement Arras , from 1925 to 1936 in the arrondissement Montreuil , from 1936 to 1939 in the arrondissement Cambrai and from 1939 to 1939 1940 Valenciennes arrondissement . In September 1940 he took over the post as prefect for the first time and served as prefect of the Somme department until he was replaced by Gaston Mumber in May 1942 . He then succeeded Jean Quenette from May 12, 1942 until he was replaced by Gaston Mumber on March 27, 1943 Prefect of the Aisne department . In April 1944 he was dismissed from the administration by the list of heads of government of France, Pierre Laval , who collaborated with the German Reich and was also the interior minister responsible for administration. He then joined the the Résistance belonging Resistance Movement Organization civile et militaire (OCM) and lived from January 1944 to the liberation of Paris in late August 1944 in the underground .

Pelletier then returned to the administration and was initially, as the successor to Jean Latour, from March 15, 1945 until his replacement by André Dubois on June 11, 1947, Prefect of the Seine-et-Marne department . He then took over on June 24, 1947 from Jean Baylot the post of Prefect of the Haute-Garonne Department and held this post until September 23, 1955, after which he was replaced by Louis Périllier . He also served on April 11, 1948 to September 23, 1955 as inspector general of the administration in particular use iGame (Inspector général de l'administration en mission extraordinaire) and was supervisor of the Prefects of the region Midi-Pyrenees . He then succeeded Paul Haag as Prefect of the Seine department on October 6, 1955, and remained in this position until he was replaced by Richard Pouzet on June 2, 1958.

On June 1, 1958 Pelletier was Minister of the Interior (Ministre de l'intérieur) in the third cabinet de Gaulle and held this ministerial office until January 8, 1959. Most recently, he was on February 12, 1959 successor to Henry Soum as the list of ministers of state of Monaco and remained in this position as Head of Government of Monaco until his replacement by Pierre Blanchy on January 23, 1962.

publication

• Traversée d'une époque , Memoirs, Toulouse, 1974

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of préfets de l'Aisne
2. ↑ Les préfets de Seine-et-Marne
3. ↑ Les préfets de la Haute-Garonne 1800-2007
4. ^ Monaco: Ministers of state (rulers.org)