Edgar Hector

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Edgar Georg Maria Hector (born May 9, 1911 in Saarlouis ; † March 21, 1989 in Paris ) was a Saarland lawyer and politician ( CVP ).

Life

Grave of Edgar Hector in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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

Commons : Edgar Hector  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal Officiel de la République Française , March 9, 1930, p. 2693, 2nd column.
  2. ↑ Ursula Langkau-Alex: German Popular Front 1932–1939. Akademie Verlag, 2004, p. 46. ISBN 3-05-004031-9
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ↑ Günter Scholdt: Saarland authors on the referendum in 1955. In: Wolfgang Brücher (Hrsg.): Grenzverschiebungen. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2003, ISBN 3-86110-317-6
  5. ↑ Personal details : Edgar Hector . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1956, pp. 64 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Personal details : Johannes Hoffmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1957, pp. 64 ( online ).
personal data
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