Augustin Maurellet

Augustin Maurellet (born December 21, 1888 in Écuras , Charente department , † February 23, 1969 in Royan , Charente-Maritime department ) was a French politician of the SFIO . From 1945 to 1955 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Life and career

Early life

Maurellet, the son of a wooden shoemaker , graduated and started working as a teacher in Villebois-Lavalette . In 1914 he was drafted into the military after the start of the First World War and then took part in the fighting. He then got a job as a teacher in Ruelle-sur-Touvre and later became the head of a school there. In 1920 he joined the socialist party SFIO. He was also active in the teachers' union and was also a member of the French League for Human Rights . He supported pacifism and participated in several multinational conferences aimed at maintaining world peace. In April 1939, Maurellet, who had already entered the local council of Ruelle-sur-Touvre, ran for a by-election for the national parliament, but was unable to prevail.

Second World War

During the German occupation that began in 1940 and the associated rule of the Vichy regime , he fought the rulers as part of the Resistance movement . He particularly helped young people who wanted to avoid forced labor in the Service du travail obligatoire . As a member of the Liberation Committee for the Charente department, he also belonged to the leadership level of the resistance.

Career in political office

Immediately after the liberation of France, he was elected mayor of Ruelle-sur-Touvre in September 1944, which he remained until October 1947. In the elections for the first constituent national assembly in September 1945, the then 56-year-old led the list of socialists in the Charente department and thus made it into parliament. There he was a member of the Commission for National Defense Issues and was also elected to the Haute Cour de Justice , which had to decide on the eventual impeachment of the President. In June 1946 he made it into parliament again in the elections for the second constituent national assembly, which he succeeded again in the first regular elections in November of the same year. Following this, he was also accepted into the Commission for Family, Population and Health. In the 1951 elections, he won another re-election and was then secretary of the Defense Commission before being elected its vice-president on July 27, 1955. In the service of his group, he participated regularly in debates on the budget for national defense. In general, he always voted in line with the prevailing opinion of his party and, as a staunch European, advocated the establishment of the European Defense Community in 1954 , although it did not find a majority and ultimately failed. When his mandate expired in December 1955, he decided against a new candidacy and withdrew from political business. He died in 1969 at the age of 80.

Individual evidence

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