Abraham Schrameck

Schrameck 1925

Abraham Schrameck (born November 26, 1867 in Saint-Étienne , † October 19, 1948 in Marseille ) was a French politician. He made a career as an administrative officer in the Third Republic and was a member of the Senate from 1920 to 1940 .

Life

Abraham Schrameck came from a Jewish family in Alsace . At the age of just 24, he was appointed Prefect of the Loire Department. In 1894 he became a senior officer at the Paris Police Prefecture . In 1900, at the age of 33, he was appointed Prefect of the Tarn-et-Garonne department in southern France. From 1906 to 1907 he briefly held this position in the Aisne department . In 1911 he finally became prefect of the densely populated Bouches-du-Rhône department with Marseille as the capital. After the end of the First World War , Schrameck became governor general of Madagascar in 1918 .

Two years later he succeeded in entering the French Senate as a representative of the Bouches-du-Rhône department . There he joined the moderate left. In 1925 he took over the post of Interior Minister for a few months . He has repeatedly been the target of anti-Semitic attacks. In 1925, Charles Maurras called in an open letter to kill Abraham Schrameck "like a dog".

When the Vichy regime came to power , Schrameck was one of the MPs who rejected the new government's laws. He was then imprisoned until the liberation in 1944 .

literature

• Claire Darmon: Abraham Schrameck, administrateur et homme politique de la Troisième République . Institut d'études politiques. Paris 1979.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Maurras: La politique. II. Lettre ouverte à M. Abraham Schrameck, ministre de l'Intérieur . In: L'Action française , Vol. 18, No. 160 of June 9, 1925, p. 1.
2. ↑ Anciens sénateurs IIIe république - Schrameck Abraham , senat.fr
3. ↑ David P. Boder interviews Abraham Schrameck , voices.iit.edu