Georges Turines

Georges Turines (born January 26, 1895 in Lautignac , Haute-Garonne department ; † July 4, 1979 in Villefranche-de-Lauragais ) was a French politician of the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste . From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Life and career

Early life

Turines, whose older brother Maxime was politically active for the French Communist Party at the local level, graduated from high school in Saint-Gaudens in 1910 and then studied to become a teacher in Toulouse . In 1914 he began teaching in Auterive , following his father, who did the same job. Two weeks after being hired, he was mobilized and had to fight in the First World War. In the last year of the war he was captured, but released a little later and released from his military duties in 1919. On January 1, 1921, he got a permanent job as a teacher and a little later managed to rise to the head of a school in Villefranche-de-Lauragais.

Entry into politics and World War II

In 1931 the teacher joined the left-wing liberal Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste and acquired his first political office when he was elected to the council of his arrondissement in 1937 . At the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 he was drafted back into the military and was stationed as a staff officer in Alsace . He escaped the German troops, but had to stay in Switzerland until the end of 1940. After his return home, he made contact with the Resistance , which probably happened in 1942, and was promoted to local commander of the underground fighters of the Armée Secrète . France was liberated in 1944 and Turines became the head of the municipal administration of Villefranche-de-Lauragais, a town with a population of 2,000. In regular elections he was elected mayor and held this office until 1965.

National politics

In June 1946, Turines stood on the list of the Parti républicain for the election to the constituent national assembly, but failed because of an entry into parliament. He did not take part in the subsequent parliamentary elections in November of the same year, but he expanded his political functions at the regional level by entering the General Council of the Haute-Garonne department in 1949. In the parliamentary elections in 1951, the then 61-year-old ran for the second time for the Paris National Assembly and, thanks to an electoral alliance, was third in the list in the Haute-Garonne department. There he was a member of the commission for universal suffrage, the regulatory and petitions commission, and the commission for labor and social security, and in the last few months of his work the commission for educational issues. In voting he usually followed the line of his party and voted, among other things, for the introduction of the European Coal and Steel Community . His mandate ended in December 1955 and he sought re-election in the parliamentary elections in January 1956, again placing him in third place on the list. His list lost exactly this third place compared to the previous election, which meant that Turines had to give up his seat in Paris. Another unsuccessful candidacy followed in 1958. The former MP died in 1979 at the age of 84. He was a member of the Legion of Honor and was awarded the Croix de guerre in both world wars .

Individual evidence

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