Charles Nollet
Charles Marie Edouard Nollet (born January 28, 1865 in Marseille , † January 28, 1941 in the Puy-de-Dôme department ) was a French general and chairman of the Inter-Allied Control Commission ( IMKK ) from 1919 to 1924 and French Minister of War (1924-1925) .
Nollet joined the French army in 1884 . In 1902 he worked as an instructor at a war school .
At the beginning of the First World War in 1914 he commanded the 48th Infantry Brigade on the Western Front as a Brigade General. On June 14, 1915, he took command of the 129th Division in the Vosges . From December 31, 1915 he led the 66th Division, which led the fighting at Hartmannswillerkopf . On May 12, 1916 Nollet was commanding general of the XII. Army corps in the area southwest of Reims . He was promoted to division general in 1916 and commanded the XXXVI between March 4, 1917, beyond the end of the war until February 11, 1919. Army Corps. Since June 16, 1917, his large formation was subordinate to the 1st Army , his troops remained in the trench warfare in northern Flanders until the German spring offensive in 1918 . At the end of March, his units, which had been transferred to Amiens , intervened in the Battle of the Avre . Already deployed in Flanders again at the end of April, his corps wrestled during the Battle of the Lys near Bailleul . In September 1918 his troops pursued the retreating Germans to St. Quentin and reached the old border after the second battle of Guise .
After the war he took over the leadership of the 1st Army Corps in occupied Alsace on February 11, 1919. At the beginning of August 1919, Nollet was appointed chairman of the Inter-Allied Control Commission in the occupied German territories until 1924. From 1921 he was a member of the Supreme War Council until 1930, where he was French Minister of War (1924–1925) for almost a year.
On December 22, 1925, Nollet was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (GC LH) and from 1934 to 1940 he held the post of Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor.
Web links
- Charles Nollet in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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André Maginot |
Minister of War of France June 14, 1924 to April 17, 1925 |
Paul Painlevé |
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| SURNAME | Nollet, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nollet, Charles Marie Edouard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, officer and chairman of the IMKK (1919-1924) and Minister of War (1924-1925) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1941 |
| Place of death | Puy-de-Dôme department |