Francis Laur
Francis Laur (born September 5, 1844 in Nevers , † May 26, 1934 in Paris ) was a French mining engineer, industrial expert, specialist author and politician. He was the adopted son of the socially critical writer George Sand .
Political career
Laur was deputy of the Loire department between 1885 and 1889 and that of the Seine department from 1889 to 1893 . Laur was elected as deputy for Loire in 1885 on the basis of a heavy anti-Semitic program. The historian Laurent Joly stated that Laur was typical of a national-social bourgeois anti-Semitism that used the financial scandals and economic problems of the Third Republic to demagoguery against Jews and foreigners.
Journalistic career
Between 1890 and 1910 Laur published numerous pamphlets and specialist books on economic policy issues. He was an excellent economist and gave various impulses to French economic theory. From 1900 on he published a work in several volumes in the field of cartel and concentration theory . Its generic term, the “accaparement” (= shortage), was an alternative to the otherwise common “syndicats industriels”. Laur was thus in a conceptual contrast to the academic mainstream around Paul de Rousiers , who cultivated a "syndicate theory". Unlike or more strongly than the latter, Laur saw the German cartels as a model for the structurally weak and less well organized French industry. Among the large industrial organizations he recommended sales syndicates of the Rhenish-Westphalian coal syndicate type : “Parmi ces ententes commerciales […] quelle est celle qui vous paraît devoir être le mieux tolérée, je répondrai sans hésiter: 'C'est le cartel allemand, le cartel dont le type pur est le coal syndicate de la Westphalie. '"
Peace mission
During the First World War, Laur campaigned for a moderate peace between France and Germany. France should only re-annex Lorraine (not Alsace ), but thereby become a great steel-producing power again. The large buffer state "Suisse rhénane" was to be created between Kleve on the Lower Rhine and southern Alsace , into which Germany had to bring all of its areas on the left bank of the Rhine. This construction of a strengthened France and a strong buffer state, which completely shielded Germany from that, should guarantee peace between Paris and Berlin in the future. The historical mission of Alsace is that of a buffer.
Works by F. Laur
- La France sans houillères. Paris 1897.
- Exposition de Chicago: mines, métallurgie et électricité. Paris 1894.
- De l'accaparement. Essai doctrinal. Vol. 1. Préface by Edmond Théry. Paris 1900.
- Les cartels et syndicats en Allemagne. Essai documentaire. De l 'accaparement. Vol. 2. Paris 1903.
- Siège de Péking: récits authentiques des assiégés, S. Pichon, d'Anthouard, Ct Darcy, Matignon, Bartholin, Mathieu, Piot, etc. / par Francis Laur; with photographies de Piry. Paris 1904.
- De Oorlog! Hoe zal da oorlog? door Francis Laur. Van het Belgian front !. OO 1916.
- Une Suisse rhénane? La seule garantie contre une guerre futur entre la France et l'Allemagne, Paris-Geneve 1918.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Laurent Joly : Antisémites et antisémitisme à la Chambre des députés sous la IIIe République. Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine , 3/2007 (No. 54-3), pp. 63-90.
- ↑ Laur: Les syndicats cartels et en Allemagne. Essai documentaire. De l 'accaparement. Vol. 2. Paris 1903. S. XIII.
- ↑ Laur: Les syndicats cartels et en Allemagne. Essai documentaire. De l 'accaparement. Vol. 2. Paris 1903. pp. 462-463.
- ^ Francis Laur: Une Suisse rhénane? La seule garantie contre une were futur entre la France et l'Allemagne. Paris-Geneve 1918, pp. 139-149.
- ^ Francis Laur: "Une Suisse rhénane?" La seule garantie contre une guerre futur entre la France et l'Allemagne, Paris-Geneve 1918, p. 145.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laur, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mining engineer, industry expert, specialist author and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nevers |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1934 |
| Place of death | Paris |