Jean de Broglie

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jean Marie François Ferdinand de Broglie (pronunciation: [də bʁɔj] ; * June 21, 1921 in Paris ; † December 24, 1976 ibid) was a French politician of the Center national des indépendants et paysans (CNI) and the Républicains indépendants (RI) , who was a member of the National Assembly and several times State Secretary in various governments of the Fifth Republic . He was also a member of the European Parliament between 1967 and 1976that were still sent by the respective parliaments of the member states at the time. His assassination on December 24, 1976 led to the “Broglie Affair” during the final years of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's office .

Life

Family background, studies and professional career

Coat of arms of the Broglie family ( d'or, à la croix de Saint André ancrée d'azur )

Jean de Broglie was from the Piedmont coming and since 1656 based in France noble family de Broglie and was a descendant of Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie , and by his son François-Marie de Broglie , a Marshal of France . His great, great, great grandfather Victor-François de Broglie was Minister of War in 1789 and only one of seven people who were awarded the title of General Marshal ( Maréchal général des camps et armées du roi ) . His great-great-grandfather Achille-Léon-Victor de Broglie acted as foreign minister , interior minister and education minister and held the post of prime minister from 1830 and 1835 to 1836 . His great-grandfather Albert de Broglie was also Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Justice and Prime Minister from 1873 to 1874 and again in 1877 . He himself was the eldest of two sons of Amédée de Broglie and his wife Béatrix de Faucigny-Lucinge.

During the Second World War, Jean de Broglie was involved in the resistance movement of the Résistance in the Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI). He completed a degree in law , in which he earned a doctorate, and political science , which he completed with a diploma. He then entered the public service and was first auditeur en seconde classe in 1946 and auditeur en première classe in 1948 at the Council of State ( Conseil d'État ) , which is both the supreme administrative court and, on the other hand, an advisory body to the government on legal issues. After he was between June 20, 1953 and June 14, 1953 in the office of the Minister of State for Constitutional Reform Edmond Barrachin , he returned in 1954 as Maître des requêtes at the Conseil d'État .

Mayor and MP

De Broglie began his political career in 1951 when he was elected as the successor to Alfred Saussaye of the Parti communiste français (PCF) as a member of the General Council of the Eure department , where he represented the canton of Rugles until his death . At the same time he became mayor of the municipality Broglie in 1954 and also exercised this function until his death, whereupon he was replaced by Claude Cordier of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR).

In the elections of November 30, 1958, de Broglie was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly as a candidate for the Center national des indépendants et paysans (CNI) in the constituency of Département Eure Nr. 1 . During the first legislative term of the Fifth Republic that followed, he became a member of the Committee on Finance, General Economics and Planning (Commission des finances, de l'économie générale et du plan) .

State Secretary

On August 24, 1961, de Broglie took over a government office for the first time, namely as State Secretary in the Ministry for the Sahara (Secrétaire d'État au Sahara) and as State Secretary in the Ministry for the Overseas Departments and Territories (Secrétaire d'État aux départements d'outre- mer et aux territoires d'outre-mer) in the Debré cabinet . As such, until April 14, 1962, he was the closest collaborator of Minister of State (Ministre d'État) Louis Jacquinot , the new minister of these two departments. In this role he was at the same time alongside Algeria Minister Louis Joxe and the Minister for Public Works and Transport Robert Buron in the negotiations in Évian-les-Bains with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), which on March 18, 1962 to the treaties of Évian , which led to the end of the Algerian War.

In the first Pompidou cabinet that followed , de Broglie served between April 15 and November 28, 1962 as State Secretary to the Prime Minister for the Public Service (Secrétaire d'État chargé de la fonction publique) . In the election of November 18, 1962, he was re-elected to the National Assembly for the Républicains indépendants (RI), but resigned his seat on January 6, 1963 because of his appointment to the government. Previously, he was appointed to the second Pompidou cabinet on December 6, 1962 as State Secretary for Algeria Affairs to the Prime Minister (Secrétaire d'État auprès du Premier ministre, chargé des affaires algériennes) and held this office until January 8, 1966 subsequent third cabinet Pompidou he acted after between 8 January 1966, and April 1, 1967 as Secretary of State (Secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires étrangères) .

Re-elections to the MP

De Broglie founded the Fédération nationale des républicains et indépendants (FNRI) together with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in June 1966 and became its general secretary for political affairs. He was re- elected a member of the National Assembly on March 12, 1967 for the electoral alliance of the Républicains indépendants . After the constitution, he joined the RI parliamentary group and also became a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères) . In addition, he was elected member of the European Parliament on May 24, 1967 . After the early dissolution of the National Assembly due to the unrest in May 1968 , he ran in the elections on June 23, 1968 for the RI and was elected in the first ballot with 26,553 of the 52,010 votes cast. On October 16, 1968 he was re-elected as a member of the European Parliament and was again a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, of which he became vice-chair on April 3, 1969. Most recently he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee from September 16, 1969 until the end of the fourth legislative period on April 1, 1973, replacing Jacques Vendroux , Charles de Gaulle's brother-in-law .

In the elections in March 1973, de Broglie was re-elected to the National Assembly in the second ballot on March 11, 1973 with 31,818 votes (56.6 percent). During this fifth legislative period, he was a member of the Finance Committee (Commission des finances) from April 5, 1973, and was again a member of the European Parliament on June 13, 1973. On June 27, 1974, he moved again to the Foreign Affairs Committee. After Valéry Giscard d'Estaing emerged from the second round of the presidential election on May 19, 1974 with 13,396,203 votes (50.81 percent) just as the winner over François Mitterrand (12,971,604 votes, 49.19 percent), he became spokesman of the RI group in the National Assembly.

Assassination and Broglie Affair

On December 24, 1976, de Broglie was shot dead on the doorstep of his financial advisor Pierre de Varga in Paris' Rue des Dardanelles . Over time, the case grew into a scandal affecting business, politics, and a number of obscure businesses.

De Broglie was involved in a number of activities of various more or less successful companies such as Sofradec , Sodotex and Brincom , but at the time of his murder he had a debt of 12 million francs . He was murdered at a time when he was becoming a liability risk. This was created, among other things, through investments in restaurants and companies operated by de Varga and Patrick de Ribemont. Five days after the murder, the then Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski declared on December 29, 1976 that de Varga and de Ribemont had commissioned the murder of de Broglie and that it was carried out by Gérard Frèche.

In 1980 the Parti socialiste (PS), with the support of the Parti communiste français (PCF), submitted a motion to the National Assembly that Michel Poniatowski, the then Interior Minister , should appear before the Court of Cassation and be charged with failure to provide assistance. According to the PS and PCF, as Minister of the Interior, he had failed to help someone he knew was in danger. Poniatowski then accused the PS and PCF of defamation and told the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry that it had never had any prior information about the impending murder of Jean de Broglie.

Marriage and offspring

His marriage to Micheline Segard on June 7, 1948 had three children, including Victor-François de Broglie , who was the 8th Duke of Broglie between 1987 and his death in 2012, and Philippe Maurice de Broglie , who was 9th after his death in 2012 Became Duke of Broglie.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1976, Yves Le Goff of the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche (MRG) succeeded him as a member of the General Council of the Eure department for the Rugles canton .
  2. ↑ Gouvernement Michel Debré
  3. ↑ Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
  4. ^ Deuxième Georges Pompidou Governorate
  5. ^ Troisième Gouvernement Georges Pompidou
  6. ^ L'affaire Jean de Broglie. REPLAY - Le 24 décembre 1976, le Prince Jean de Broglie, député de l'Eure et ancien ministre, est assassiné rue des Dardanelles, à Paris. . In: RTL from December 5, 2016
  7. ^ “Un prince est mort à Paris”: l'assassinat de Jean de Broglie . In: France Inter of 7 December 2016
  8. ^ Retour sur l'affaire Jean de Broglie. L'assassinat de Jean de Broglie, une affaire d'État . In: La Croix of December 8, 2016
  9. ↑ FRANCE: Dark business. A big name, a historic restaurant, millions of francs and murder: the de Broglie criminal case turned into a judicial scandal. . In: Der Spiegel from January 10, 1977
  10. ↑ Giscard d'Estaing: Rotten society. Unsolved murders, scandals, secret indiscretions with public discretion and unparalleled patronage of office - this is what the “Giscard State” looks like. . In: Der Spiegel from May 19, 1980
  11. ↑ FRANCE: Dark affair. Who ordered the murder of Prince Jean de Broglie? And why? France is experiencing its most confusing murder trial. . In: Der Spiegel from November 30, 1981
personal data
SURNAME Broglie, Jean de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broglie, Jean Marie François Ferdinand de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1976
Place of death Paris