Alain Savary

Alain Savary, 1973

Alain Savary (born April 25, 1918 in Algiers , † February 17, 1988 in Paris ) was French Minister of Education .

Savary joined the French armed forces of France libre in 1940 and was entrusted by Admiral Émile Muselier with the administration of the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast, of which he was governor until early 1943. From April 1944 Savary took part in the Italian campaign and shortly afterwards in the landing in Provence . In October he became a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. In 1946 he became General Secretary of the Commissioner's Office for German and Austrian Affairs. In the 1950s he was a member of the National Assembly for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon until he was promoted to deputy general secretary of the socialist SFIO in 1959 . In 1969 he gave the decisive impetus for the establishment of the new Parti socialiste français . From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of parliament for the Haute-Garonne department , before finally becoming Minister of Education in the Pierre Mauroy cabinet on May 22, 1981 , an office that he held until July 19, 1984. The creation of the so-called zones d'éducation prioritaires (ZED), which should serve to reduce social inequalities, went back to his initiative . In 1984 there was a large-scale demonstration in Paris over the question of the freedom of schools and the politics of laicisation, in which over a million people took part.

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Literature by and about Alain Savary in the catalog of the German National Library

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SURNAME	Savary, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French education politician, member of the National Assembly and Resistant
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Algiers
DATE OF DEATH	17th February 1988
Place of death	Paris