André Duroméa

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André Duroméa (born September 5, 1917 in Le Havre , † March 16, 2011 in Dieppe , Département Seine-Maritime ) was a French politician and resistance fighter .

Life

After training as a locksmith , Duroméa became a member of the French Communist Party (FKP) in 1938 .

After the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht in 1940, he joined the Francs-tireurs et partisans in 1941 and fought in south-west France. Duroméa achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the partisan organization before he was arrested and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp . From there he was brought to the Bahrsplate concentration camp, which was guarded by naval soldiers , and had to do forced labor for the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft on the AG Weser .

After the liberation he returned to his hometown Le Havre, where he sat on the city council for the FKP from 1947 to 1959. From 1958 to 1976 he was a member of the General Council of the Seine-Maritime Department for the canton of Le Havre-3 . In 1965 the communist mayor of Le Havre, René Cance , appointed him his first alderman. In 1971 Duroméa was elected Mayor of Le Havre in the first ballot. In 1977 and 1986 he was re-elected in the first ballot and in 1989 in the second ballot. In 1994 he handed over the office to his first alderman Daniel Colliard .

From 1976 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993 Duroméa was also a member of the National Assembly , and from 1986 to 1988 he was a member of the Senate .

Honors

André Duroméa promenade
  • On February 28, 1949, André Duroméa was made a knight for his military achievements during the Second World War , an officer on April 2, 1999 and commander of the Légion d'honneur on January 1, 2006 .
  • On May 19, 2012, the newly laid out beach promenade Promenade André Duroméa was inaugurated in Le Havre by the mayor Édouard Philippe ( UMP ) and the Communist MP Daniel Paul in the presence of the widow Duroméa and his daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • André Duroméa raconte: la Résistance, la déportation, Le Havre. Éditions Sociales, Paris 1987.
  • André Duroméa, un maire, un militant. Entretiens avec Jean-Jacques Lallemant . Le Temps des cerises, Pantin 2005.

literature

  • Marie-Paule Dhaille-Hervieu: Communistes au Havre. Histoire sociale, culturelle et politique (1930–1983) . Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre (PURH), Mont-Saint-Aignan 2009, ISBN 978-2-87775-475-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Un hommage à l'ancien maire, André Duroméa on the Paris-Normandie.fr page
  2. ^ Le Havre: Promenade André Duroméa ( Memento of August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the page of the Élus Communistes et Républicains de Seine-Maritime
personal data
SURNAME Duroméa, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Resistance fighter, member of the National Assembly and Mayor of Le Havre
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2011
Place of death Dieppe