Guillaume Widmer

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Guillaume Widmer (born July 24, 1906 in La Possonnière , Maine-et-Loire department , † 1968 in La Rue-Saint-Pierre , Oise department ) was a French politician.

After studying philology and law, Widmer was employed in the management of the Banque nationale française du commerce extérieur from 1926 to 1931 . From 1931 to 1939 he worked as an authorized signatory at the Banque de l'Indochine . During the Second World War he worked in 1943 for an Allied general staff in Algiers. From 1945 to 1952 he headed the military government in Württemberg-Hohenzollern , from 1954 to 1958 he was a senior official in the French Ministry of Defense. He then served on the staff of the President of the National Assembly (and former Defense Minister) Jacques Chaban-Delmas until his suicide in 1968 .

literature

  • Reinhard Grohnert: The denazification in Baden 1945-1949. Kohlhammer Stuttgart 1991
  • Jürgen Klöckler: Occident - Alpine - Alemannia. France and the discussion about restructuring in southwest Germany 1945-1947 (Studies on Contemporary History, Vol. 55), Oldenbourg, Munich 1998. pp. 42f., ISBN 3-486-56345-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Widmer, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH La Possonnière , Maine-et-Loire
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death La Rue-Saint-Pierre (Oise)