Edgar Hector
Edgar Georg Maria Hector (born May 9, 1911 in Saarlouis ; † March 21, 1989 in Paris ) was a Saarland lawyer and politician ( CVP ).
Life
Hector was the son of the Saarlouis doctor and mayor as well as a member of the government commission of the League of Nations for the Saar area Jacob Hector . After the Saar referendum in 1935 , his family, who had opposed the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich, emigrated to Metz . As early as February 25, 1930, Edgar Hector was granted French citizenship together with his father as a minor child. Hector, who had studied law at the Sorbonne , settled in Paris and was part of the Sarrois Office , a government agency for refugees from the Saar in France. During the German occupation of France, he stayed with his family in the Pyrenees .
As a member of the French armed forces , Hector returned to Saarland in 1945 . He joined the CVP and was elected to the Saarland state parliament in 1947 despite criticism due to his nationality . After working as State Secretary in the meantime , the doctor of law was appointed Minister of the Interior in the first cabinet of Johannes Hoffmann . He retained this function in all of Hoffmann's cabinets. Hector, who was one of the leading members of the MRS , took a pro- France course and used police-state methods against critics, among other things he was responsible for numerous expulsions, censorship measures and the ban on the pro-German Democratic Party of the Saar .
After the rejection of the European Saar Statute in 1955, Hoffmann's cabinet resigned. Hector then left the Saarland and returned to France in 1956. He initially worked as a lawyer in Paris, where he finally found employment with Électricité de France , which he last represented in Brussels at the European Community .
literature
- Alexis Andres: Edgar Hector and the Saar question 1920–1960. In: Rainer Hudemann , Burkhard Jellonnek, Bernd Rauls (eds.): Grenz-Fall. The Saarland between France and Germany 1945-1960 . Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1997, ISBN 3-86110-136-X ( History, Politics & Society series of the Saarland Democracy Foundation 1), pp. 163–176
Web links
- Hector's farewell . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/1955
- Edgar Hector on saarland-biografien.de
- Literature on Edgar Hector in the Saarland Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal Officiel de la République Française , March 9, 1930, p. 2693, 2nd column.
- ↑ Ursula Langkau-Alex: German Popular Front 1932–1939. Akademie Verlag, 2004, p. 46. ISBN 3-05-004031-9
- ^ Winfried Becker: The development of the political parties in Saarland 1945 to 1955 according to French sources. In: Rainer Hudemann, Raymond Poidevin (Ed.): The Saar 1945–1955. A problem in European history. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-486-56142-5 , p. 254.
- ↑ Günter Scholdt: Saarland authors on the referendum in 1955. In: Wolfgang Brücher (Hrsg.): Grenzverschiebungen. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2003, ISBN 3-86110-317-6
- ↑ Personal details : Edgar Hector . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1956, pp. 64 ( online ).
- ↑ Personal details : Johannes Hoffmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1957, pp. 64 ( online ).
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SURNAME | Hector, Edgar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hector, Edgar Georg Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (CVP), MdL |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1911 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarlouis |
DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1989 |
Place of death | Paris |