Jean-Thomas Nordmann

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Jean-Thomas Nordmann (born February 16, 1946 in Paris ) is a French historian , literary scholar and politician ( PRad , UDF ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 1982 to 1994, from 1995 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2004

Life

Nordmann studied history, literature and politics at the École normal supérieure in Paris. He passed the Agrégation (license to teach) in classical languages ​​and literature in 1969 as the best of his year. From 1970 he was a research assistant at the Sorbonne and Maître de conférences for French literature at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He published u. a. about the history of French radicalism and about Hippolyte Taine . Nordmann was appointed to a professorship at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens in 1994 .

From 1966 to 1968 Nordmann was chairman of the Jeunesses radical-socialistes , youth organization of the Parti radical . From 1969 he was a member of the national board of the Parti radical (valoisien) . From 1977 to 2003 he was deputy chairman of the party that from 1978 belonged to the civic alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF). In the 1979 European elections , he initially missed entry, but moved up in 1982 for the late Francis Combe . Like his predecessor, he joined the Liberal and Democratic Group in the European Parliament. From 1983 to 1995 he was also a member of the Paris City Council.

After the European elections in 1984 and 1989, he was a member of the European Parliament for an entire legislative period; From 1993-1994 he was chairman of the delegation for relations with Canada. In the European elections in 1994 he only got one place to replace him, but in May 1995 he took the seat of his retired party colleague Yves Galland . In the European elections in 1999, his list position was again unsuccessful. At the special party conference of the Parti radical valoisien in March 2002, Nordmann spoke out in favor of supporting UDF chairman François Bayrou in the upcoming presidential election , but the majority of the party supported incumbent Jacques Chirac .

When François Bayrou resigned his seat in the EU Parliament after the election in June 2002, Nordmann took over for it. At the 2003 party congress, Nordmann applied to chair the Parti radical, but lost to André Rossinot with 21.4% of the delegate's votes . There was also the question of whether the party should remain associated with the UDF (as Nordmann advocated) or join Chirac's new center-right rallying party UMP (which Rossinot enforced). Nordmann did not follow the change to the UMP, but stayed in the UDF. From March 2003 to the end of the 2004 legislative period, Nordmann was deputy chairman of the Liberal and Democratic Group. Then he left the European Parliament.

Works (selection)

  • Histoire des radicaux , Table Ronde, 1974
  • La France radicale , Julliard Collection, 1977
  • Taine et la critique scientifique , PUF, 1992
  • La critique littéraire française au XIXème siècle (1800-1914) , Le Livre de Poche, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Jean-Thomas Nordmann in the Members' database of the European Parliament
  2. ↑ a b Laurent de Boissieu: Chronology Parti Radical France-politique.fr, June 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Nordmann, Jean-Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, MEP and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris