Alexis Le Strat

Alexis Le Strat (born July 14, 1898 in Ploërmel , † August 30, 1970 in Rennes ) was a French politician of the SFIO . From 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Life and career

Early life and career

Le Strat came from a humble background and was accepted into a college for teachers in 1914. In April 1917 he was mobilized and had to take part in the First World War . He completed training as a pilot, which he completed in October 1918 shortly before the end of the war. In the 1920s he worked as a teacher at various schools in his home region of Brittany before he was promoted to headmaster in Rennes in 1933. He then headed a vocational school from 1945 to 1955. In 1939 he was mobilized and was one of those who had to take part in both World War I and World War II . In September 1940 he was released from his military duties.

Career in political office

In 1927 Le Strat joined the socialist party SFIO, but was initially only little active. He campaigned against the threat from right-wing extremist forces and was elected deputy chairman of an anti-fascist group for the city of Rennes in 1934. Two years later he became the local president of the Popular Front . He also combined work and politics when he was secretary of the teachers' union from 1934 to 1939. From 1936 he was a member of the executive commission of the CGT trade union confederation in the Ille-et-Vilaine department .

After the Second World War he intensified his political activities and in February 1947 took over the office of Secretary of the SFIO at the departmental level. In October of the same year he entered the Rennes City Council and became a deputy mayor. As such, he advocated the expansion of social housing. After his re-election in 1953, he became the first deputy head of the city. A candidacy for the General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine in 1945 was unsuccessful.

At the national level he ran for the first time for parliament in 1946, but was not elected due to his hopeless list position. He ran for the Senate in 1949 and 1951 without success. In January 1956, however, he was at the head of a list made up of SFIO and the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste in the department and entered the National Assembly. There he was accepted into the commission for education as well as for reconstruction, war damage and housing. In total, he introduced three bills. In June 1958 he voted against the authorization of Charles de Gaulle , but a little later in favor of the proposed revision of the constitution. This resulted in the establishment of the fifth republic and new elections, so that he lost his mandate in December 1958. A year later he resigned from the Rennes city council and a renewed candidacy for the National Assembly in 1962 was unsuccessful. He died in 1970 at the age of 72.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr