Fernand Couzinet

Fernand Couzinet (born October 1, 1911 in Toulouse ; † August 31, 1986 there ) was a French politician of the SFIO . From 1962 to 1967 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Life and career

Couzinet grew up as the son of a commercial clerk and a seamstress in Toulouse and did his military service in Grenoble in 1929 , before he returned to his homeland and found a job as a teacher in Montesquieu-Volvestre in the Toulouse region; he practiced this profession until he received his mandate in 1962. With the beginning of the Second World War he was mobilized in 1939 and took part in the defense of his country against the German troops in 1940. He survived this unscathed and was not taken prisoner of war, so that he was able to pursue his teaching profession again from the same year.

Couzinet, who was already politically active before the war and joined the socialist party SFIO in 1930, made it to the General Council of the Haute-Garonne department in 1945 and was also elected to the local council of Montesquieu-Volvestre a year later. This was followed a little later by the appointment to the office of deputy mayor. In the following years he gained a certain reputation at the regional level and declared himself ready to run in the parliamentary elections in 1962. He ran in the fifth constituency of Haute-Garonne and faced the centrist previous MP Jacques Douzans . In the first ballot he reached 33.4%, while his competitor just barely missed the absolute majority with 49.4%; Nevertheless, Couzinet was able to prevail in the second round with 50.8% of the vote and thus took his place within the socialist faction in the Paris parliament building. Although he did not appear there through his own bills or a powerful position in a working group, he was elected one of the secretaries of parliament in 1965. At the same time, he continued his commitment at the local level and was also elected Mayor of Montesquieu-Volvestre in 1965, which he remained until 1974.

In the 1967 elections, Couzinet applied for a renewal of his mandate, but had to admit defeat to his predecessor Douzans, who had run again, with 45.2%. He then decided to withdraw from national politics, while at the regional level he was given the role of Secretary in the General Council in the same year. He retained this function until he also retired from this body in 1976. In 1986, the politician who was married twice and had two children died.

Individual evidence

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