Jacques Stern (politician)

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Jacques Stern (1932)

Jacques Stern (born April 14, 1882 in Paris , France , according to other information in Germany , † December 21, 1949 , New York City , United States ) was a French-Jewish politician of the French Third Republic and a member of the Stern banking family .

Life

From 1914 to 1919 and from 1928 to 1936 he was a deputy of the southern French department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the French Chamber of Deputies for a left-wing Republican alliance led by the Radical Socialists .

Despite a nationalist campaign reminiscent of the Dreyfus affair , Stern was appointed Undersecretary of the Navy Minister Albert Sarraut in the Théodore Steeg cabinet (until January 1931) and in October 1933 as Merchant Navy Minister in the Albert Sarraut cabinet (until November 1933) . From January to June 1936 he was Colonial Minister in a new Sarraut cabinet. Since 1942 he lived in the United States.

During the Second World War, Stern campaigned for an assimilation of the colored peoples of the French colonial empire and propagated the vision of "a hundred million French" .

Fonts

  • The French Colonies. Past and Future. New York 1944.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Neue Welt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.5 MB) or two Jewish undersecretaries of state in the French cabinet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Truth , January 9, 1931 (PDF file; 2.1 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de  
  2. ^ Isaak Landman: The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Volume 10, p. 57.
  3. ↑ Fuabeh Paul Fonge: Modernization without development in Africa. Asmara 1997, p. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Jewish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris or Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1949
Place of death New York City , United States