André Marie

André Marie (born December 3, 1897 in Honfleur , † June 12, 1974 in Rouen ) was a French politician of the Radical Party . He was Prime Minister in 1948 and Minister several times between 1947 and 1954.

Life

After finishing school in Honfleur and Rouen, where the family lived from 1908, André Marie was drafted into the army in 1916, was slightly injured twice during the First World War and was awarded the Croix de guerre .

In 1922 he started a career as a lawyer. Between 1928 and 1962 he was elected to the National Assembly nine times as a member of the Seine-Maritime department . He received his first government office in 1933 as Undersecretary of State for Alsace-Lorraine. Before the Second World War he was State Secretary and representative of France in the League of Nations several times .

When the Second World War broke out , he volunteered for the army as an artillery captain. He was captured and interned in Sarrebourg . He therefore did not take part in the vote of the National Assembly on the transfer of constitutional powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain , with which the Vichy regime was installed.

André Marie was released in 1941. Since he rejected the politics of the Vichy regime, he renounced all political offices. As a member of the Resistance , he was betrayed and arrested by the German occupying forces in September 1943. On December 16, 1943, he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he stayed until the camp was liberated by American troops on April 11, 1945.

After returning to France, André Marie soon resumed his place in political life. In 1947 he became Minister of Justice in the government of Paul Ramadier ; The last trials against collaborators took place under his responsibility . On July 27, 1948, he was appointed Prime Minister to succeed Robert Schuman , but had to resign a month later. He became Deputy Prime Minister under Henri Queuille and took over the Ministry of Justice again. In this role he rejected the persecution of the communists after the miners' strike of 1948. From August 1951 to June 1954 he was Minister of Education. During his tenure, laws were passed to support private schools.

From 1945 to 1974 André Marie was also mayor of Barentin in the Seine-Maritime department .

literature

• André Marie , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 49/1974 of November 25, 1974, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Robert Schuman	Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic July 26, 1948 - August 28, 1948	Henri Queuille