Jacques Marette

Jacques Marette (born September 21, 1922 in Paris ; † April 25, 1984 ibid) was a French politician of the Rassemblement du peuple français (RPR), Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) and most recently the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), who was a member of the Senate between 1959 and 1962 , Minister of Post and Telecommunications from 1962 to 1967 and a member of the National Assembly between 1967 and his death in 1984 .

Life

Resistance fighter, party official and business manager

Marette grew up in a middle-class industrial family in Paris and completed his education at the private school Cours Hattemer, founded in 1885 . He then began studying law at the École libre des sciences politiques , founded by Émile Boutmy in 1872 , the predecessor of today's Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). While still a student, he joined the Resistance movement after the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht in 1942 and took part in several secret operations in a responsible position. In 1944 he became a member of the executive board of the national liberation movement MLN (Mouvement de libération nationale) and also acted as its deputy general secretary in Île-de-France . For his services in the resistance he was awarded the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 , the Médaille de la Résistance and the Médaille des combattants volontaires de la Resistance.

After the end of the Second World War , Marette worked as a journalist for the daily newspapers France Soir and Combat and as a representative of the state broadcasting company Radiodiffusion Française Télévision Française (RTF) in Germany . After his return to France he was one of the first members of the RPF ( Rassemblement du peuple français ) , founded by Charles de Gaulle in the spring of 1947, and acted as head of cabinet of Jacques Baumel , the former general secretary of the MLN. Shortly thereafter, he became editor-in-chief of the RPF published newspaper Le Rassemblement ouvrier and worked for it until 1949. From 1951 to 1952 he was responsible for building up the RPF in the Midi-Pyrénées region and was also a member of the National Council of the RPF. In 1952 he switched to business and was managing director of various industrial companies until 1958.

At the request of General de Gaulle, he returned to politics and served between June 1958 and January 1959 as a technical advisor in the cabinet of Industry and Trade Minister Édouard Ramonet . In autumn 1958 he was one of the co-founders of the Union for the New Republic UNR ( Union pour la Nouvelle République ) . In the following period he was Deputy Secretary General of the UNR between October 1958 and March 1961 and thus representative of the then General Secretaries Roger Frey , Albin Chalandon and most recently Jacques Richard . In this function he was responsible for relations with parliament, the press and external relations within the UNR. In addition, since 1959 he was political director of the party newspaper Courrier de la nouvelle République . In the local elections in March 1959, he was also elected a member of the municipal council of the 9th sector of Paris, which included the 19th and 20th arrondissement .

Senator, Minister and MP

After Edmond Michelet entered the government of Prime Minister Michel Debré as Minister of Justice on January 8, 1959 , Marette was succeeded by the Senate on May 29, 1959 and was a member of the Senate as a representative of the Seine department until May 15, 1962. He belonged to the parliamentary group of the Union pour la Nouvelle République and was a member of the Senate Committee for Economic Affairs (Commission des affaires économiques) .

On April 16, 1962, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou appointed Marette to his first cabinet as Minister of Post and Telecommunications (Ministre des Postes et télécommunications) . In the elections of November 25, 1962 he was elected for the party alliance of the UNR and the Democratic Union of Labor UDT (Union Démocratique du Travail) as a member of the National Assembly for the Seine department, but resigned this mandate on January 6, 1963 after on November 28, 1962, he had been reappointed Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the second Pompidou cabinet . He also held this ministerial office in the third Pompidou cabinet formed on January 8, 1966 until April 1, 1967. When the fourth Pompidou cabinet was formed on April 6, 1967, he was no longer taken into account, but Yves Guéna as the new Minister for Post and Telecommunications appointed.

In the previous elections on March 12, 1967, Marette was re-elected a member of the National Assembly for the Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic UDR (Union démocratique pour la V ° République) and belonged to this after his re-elections on June 30, 1968, 11. March 1973, March 19, 1978 and June 14, 1981 as representative of the 17th constituency of Paris until his death on April 25, 1984. During this time he was a member of the successor parliamentary groups of the UNR / UDR, namely the Union of Democrats for the Republic of UDR (Union des démocrates pour la République) and most recently the rallying movement for the Republic of RPR ( Rassemblement pour la République ) . During the third legislative period, from March 1967 to June 1968, he was a member of the parliamentary committee for culture, families and social affairs (Commission des affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales) and at the beginning of the fourth legislative period initially a member of the committee for production and trade (Commission de la production et des échanges) , but switched to the more prestigious committee for finance, general economics and planning (Commission des finances, de l'économie générale et du plan) in October 1969 . He was a member of this committee until his death.

In addition, Marette was elected a member of the City Council of Paris in 1977, to which he was a member until his death after his re-election in 1983.

Marette was the younger brother of the later pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto . After his death he was buried in the Cimetière de Vaugirard and the Place Jacques-Marette was named in his honor, a square in the 15th arrondissement of Paris .

Web links

• Entry on the Senate homepage
• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly