Georges Bonnet

Georges Bonnet (1937)

Georges Bonnet (born July 23, 1889 in Bassilac in the Dordogne department , † June 18, 1973 in Paris ) was French Foreign Minister from April 10, 1938 to September 13, 1939 .

Bonnet was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the May 1924 election for the Radical Socialist Party (PRRRS) . On April 10, 1938, he was appointed Foreign Minister in the Daladier III cabinet by Édouard Daladier . In November 1938 he visited his German colleague Joachim von Ribbentrop , where he did not protest against the November pogroms , but instead emphasized "how interested France is in a solution to the Jewish problem". His country does not want to accept any more Jews from Germany; he asked if "some measures" could not be taken to prevent them from coming to France. He also said that France also wanted to “get rid of ten thousand Jews somewhere”. Bonnet also advocated the Munich Agreement and tried to avoid World War II as late as August 1939 by suggesting Mussolini as a mediator in the conflict between Germany and Poland.

During the German occupation, Georges Bonnet maintained contacts with both the Vichy regime and the Resistance . In 1945 he was expelled from the Radical Socialist Party. In order to avoid persecution because of his collaboration with the Vichy regime, he evaded to Switzerland, but soon returned to France. In 1955 he appeared again as the leader of a small left-wing liberal party, but no longer achieved any significant political significance. From 1956 to 1968 he was a member of the Dordogne department in the French National Assembly , from 1955 to 1965 mayor of Brantôme .

literature

Hans F. Bellstedt: "Apaisement" or war. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and the Franco-German declaration of December 6, 1938 (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 37). Bouvier, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-416-02423-0 . ( Digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Georges Bonnet - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Newspaper article about Georges Bonnet in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

^ Nils Minkmar : The Foreign Office and the Holocaust. The pressing concern of becoming redundant. In: FAZ.NET . October 30, 2010, accessed January 10, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bonnet, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician, member of the National Assembly and Foreign Minister
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bassilac , Dordogne department
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1973
Place of death	Paris

[1] Nils Minkmar : The Foreign Office and the Holocaust. The pressing concern of becoming redundant. In: FAZ.NET . October 30, 2010, accessed January 10, 2016 .