Jean Ybarnégaray

Jean Ybarnégaray (1932)

Michel Albert Jean Joseph Ybarnégaray (born October 16, 1883 in Uhart-Cize , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques , † April 25, 1956 in Paris ) was a French politician.

Life

Ybarnégaray, who comes from the French Basque Country , completed a law degree at the University of Bordeaux and the Sorbonne in Paris . He then worked as a lawyer. Ybarnégaray began to be politically active and became mayor (" Maire ") of his home community Uhart-Cize. In April 1914, Ybarnégaray moved into the Chamber of Deputies for the conservative Fédération républicaine and remained a member of the Mauléon constituency until May 1942 .

After the beginning of World War I, Ybarnégaray volunteered for the army and served as an officer on the Western Front . After being wounded, he was awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor and returned to Parliament. There Ybarnégaray criticized the Nivelle Offensive (1917) and the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty .

During the 1930s, Ybarnégaray moved politically to the right and sympathized with the Jeunesses patriotes and the veteran organization Croix de Feu . From 1936 he joined the moderate successor party Parti social français and served as its parliamentary group leader in the Chamber of Deputies.

On May 10, 1940, Ybarnégaray joined Paul Reynaud's government as Minister of State ( Ministre d'État ) and supported Philippe Pétain's political line during the German invasion of France and spoke out in favor of an armistice with the German Reich . With Pétain's takeover on June 17, 1940, Ybarnégaray remained in the cabinet as Minister for Veterans and Family and supported the Pétain's constitutional amendments of July 10, 1940, which transformed the Third Republic into the authoritarian État français ( Vichy regime ). Ybarnégaray resigned his ministerial office on September 6, 1940.

Because of his support for the Resistance , Ybarnégaray was arrested in 1943 and imprisoned by the German occupation authorities in the Füssen- Plansee camp ( Tyrol ).

On March 16, 1946, he was tried in the Haute Cour de justice , but the court suspended his sentence for supporting the resistance movement.