Antoine Lemoine

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Lemoine (center) in the town hall of Marseille on January 23, 1943
Deportation of Jews on January 24, 1943

Antoine Jean Marcel Lemoine (born July 13, 1888 in Épinal , † September 12, 1958 in Précy-sur-Vrin ) was a French administrative lawyer , prefect and state secretary in the Vichy government .

Life

Antoine Lemoine studied law and began working in the prefecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in 1910 . He then became head of cabinet of the Prefect in the Seine-et-Oise department . During the First World War he was first drafted and then from 1916 on as sub-prefect in Loches and Doullens . His further administrative career sent him from 1919 to 1922 to the Aisne department and as sub-prefect to Soissons . After working in the Ministry of the Merchant Navy in 1929, he became Prefect for the first time in Ain (1930–1931), then in Indre (1931–1934), Indre-et-Loire (1934–1936), Gard (1936–1938) and in Loiret ( 1938–1940), where he saw the German conquest of France .

In the then established Vichy administration, Lemoine was appointed director of communications ( Directeur du corps des gardes de communication ) in 1941 and then again as prefect in the Haute-Vienne and regional prefect of Limoges (1941-1942) in the unoccupied part of France, and in 1943 as Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône and Regional Prefect of Marseille .

In November 1942 , Vichy France was also occupied by the Wehrmacht , but the French Vichy government and the prefectures remained in office and now, as in the previously occupied part, worked directly with the Wehrmacht and the German security service . In January 1943, 1640 Jews were deported to assembly camps in the “Rafle de Marseille” under Lemoines Prefecture . Lemoine was appointed State Secretary to the Vichy Ministry of the Interior on December 30, 1943 and was this until June 13, 1944, when he was replaced by Joseph Darnand .

After the end of the war he was indicted as a member of the collaboration government by the Commission d'Épuration and sentenced by the Haute Cour de justice to five years of loss of honor ( Dégradation nationale ) and removed from all offices. The sentence was overturned because he could prove to have supported the Resistance .

literature

  • René Bargeton: Dictionnaire biographique des préfets: September 1870 – May 1982 . Paris: Archives nationales, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Antoine Jean Marcel Lemoine (1888–1962) , short biography at ihtp
personal data
SURNAME Lemoine, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemoine, Antoine Jean Marcel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French administrative lawyer, prefect and state secretary in the Vichy government
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Epinal
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1958
Place of death Précy-sur-Vrin