Albert Sarraut

Albert Sarraut (1921)

Albert-Pierre Sarraut (born July 28, 1872 in Bordeaux , † November 26, 1962 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and politician . He was the 113th and 116th Prime Minister of France in the Third French Republic (1871-1940).

Sarraut came from a family of journalists. His brother Maurice Sarraut was editor of the newspaper Dépêche de Toulouse . After attending high school in Carcassonne , Albert began studying law at the University of Toulouse , which he completed with a doctorate. He then worked as a lawyer.

Sarraut was a member of the Radical Socialists and sat from 1902 to 1924 as a representative of the Aude department in the French Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des députés). In July 1905 he voted for the law separating church and state . From 1912 to 1919 he was Governor General of French Indochina . He advocated a more liberal colonial policy and after 1919 was one of the first politicians to speak out in favor of independence from French Indochina; this actually came only in 1954, the Indochina War .

Sarraut held numerous offices in French governments: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior (1906–1909), Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of War (1909–1910), Minister of Education (1914–1915 and 1940), Minister of Colonial Affairs ( 1920–1924 and 1932–1933), Minister of the Interior (1926–1910) 1928, 1934, 1936 and 1938–1940), Minister of the Navy (1930 and 1933), Minister of the Navy (1930–1931) and Minister of State (1937–1938 and 1938). He served as Prime Minister from October 26 to November 24, 1933 and from January 24 to June 4, 1936 . From 1926 to 1945 he was also a senator for the Aude department .

After the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies (National Assembly) in July 1940 - Germany had occupied northern France in the western campaign - Sarraut withdrew from active politics. After his brother was killed by the Milice française in 1943, he took over the management of the family newspaper La Dépêche du Midi .

Since 1947 he was a member of the National Assembly of the Union française , of which he was elected President in 1951. In 1953 he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts as the successor to David David-Weill .

Web links

Commons : Albert Sarraut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about Albert Sarraut in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

predecessor	Office	successor
Édouard Daladier Pierre Laval	Prime Minister of France October 26, 1933 - November 24, 1933 January 24, 1936 - June 4, 1936	Camille Chautemps Léon Blum
Camille Chautemps Eugène Frot Joseph Paganon Marx Dormoy Marx Dormoy	Minister of the Interior of France July 23, 1926 - November 11, 1928 February 9, 1934 - October 13, 1934 January 24, 1936 - June 4, 1936 January 18, 1938 - March 13, 1938 April 10, 1938 - March 21, 1940	André Tardieu Paul Marchandeau Roger Salengro Marx Dormoy Henri Roy
Victor Augagneur Yvon Delbos	Minister of Education of France August 3, 1914 - October 29, 1915 March 21, 1940 - June 5, 1940	Paul Painlevé Yvon Delbos