Henry Berenger

Henry Bérenger (born April 22, 1867 in Rugles , Département Eure , † May 18, 1952 in Saint-Raphaël ) was a French politician.

Henry Bérenger (1925)

Life

In 1887 he graduated in literature. In 1891 he was a student representative in Paris. By 1897 he wrote numerous books on intellectual and social problems, including The Intellectual Aristocracy . He was the publisher and shareholder of Revue des Revues , La Dépéche , L'Action and Renaissance Politique et Littéraire . He was a senator and around 1917 3ème Conseil de Guerre . On October 30, 1928, the revision procedure for the rehabilitation of Jacques Landau (born June 7, 1877 in Odessa) and Jean Goldschild (born December 13, 1890 in Paris, † August 18, 1969) was resumed before the Cour d'appel de Paris . The matter was about the anarchist, pacifist satirical newspaper Le Bonnet rouge , which existed from 1913 to 1922 and was accused by Léon Daudet and the Action française during World War I of being financed by the German army command. The payment instructions in question also went through the hands of Victor Henri Bérenger. After the First World War, he worked in the French Senate as Rapporteur Général du Budget , (budget rapporteur ). From 1912 to 1945 he sat in the Senate of Guadeloupe .

From 1926 to 1927 Bérenger was French ambassador to the United States . He submitted his letter of accreditation to the government of Calvin Coolidge in late January 1926 . End of January 1926 set Bérenger negotiations for the rescheduling of four billion USD from World War II with Andrew W. Mellon continued. As an ambassador, he was involved in the development of the Young Plan . He was also the first chairman of the Comité Général du Pétrol and in 1938 became a member of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees .

He was married to Genevieve Delzant Berenger († 1933).

Web links

• Photo on http://www.parisenimages.fr/
• Newspaper article about Henry Bérenger in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article6
2. ↑ http://www.bdic.fr/pdf/Bonnet%20rouge.pdf
3. ^ Time February 1, 1926, front page
4. ^ Time , Feb. 01, 1926, National Affairs: Financier-Diplomat
5. ^ Time , Apr. 17, 1933, tomb-, Milestones Died. Genevieve Delzant Berenger, wife of France's onetime (1926-27) Ambassador to the US Victor-Henri Berenger; after long illness; in Paris.

predecessor	Office	successor
Émile Daeschner	French ambassador to the USA 1926–1927	Zinovi Pechkoff