Jean de Hauteclocque
Jean Marie François, Comte de Hauteclocque (born February 11, 1893 in Fontainebleau , Seine-et-Marne , France ; † September 27, 1957 in Bermicourt , Pas-de-Calais , France) was an official in the French colonial administration and diplomat .
Life
The cousin of the Marshal of France Jacques-Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque held numerous posts within the colonial administration before he became general secretary of the High Commission in the Levant in 1940 . Some time later, however, he was ordered back to France by the Vichy regime , where he was put out of service in 1941 at his own request ("en disponibilité") and then became an active member of the Resistance .
He was arrested in March 1944, but was able to escape from custody in May 1944 and was sent some time later by the President of the Provisional Government , Charles de Gaulle , to the representative in Belgium . After the end of the Second World War he was first ambassador to Canada in 1945 , before he was sent as ambassador to Belgium in 1947 and worked there until 1952.
On January 13, 1952, he became General Resident in Tunisia , at a time when a troubled domestic political situation in France and a growing nationalist tendency in Tunisia made this post a difficult post. Immediately after his arrival and the arrest of 150 Destour members on January 18, an armed revolt began as the fronts hardened on both sides. The assassination of the trade unionist Farhat Hached by the colonialist extremist organization La Main Rouge led to rallies, riots, strikes and acts of sabotage, whereby the target increasingly became the structures of colonization and government. France mobilized 70,000 soldiers to bring the Tunisian guerrilla groups under control.
After he left Tunisia on September 2, 1953, he took up his last diplomatic post as ambassador to Portugal , where he worked until his death.
Jean de Hauteclocque has received several awards, became a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and received the Médaille de la Résistance .
literature
- Comte Jean de Hautecloque , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/1956 of August 13, 1956, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Louis Périllier |
General Resident in Tunisia January 13, 1952 to September 2, 1953 |
Pierre Voizard |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hauteclocque, Jean de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hauteclocque, Jean Marie François Comte de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fontainebleau , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1957 |
| Place of death | Bermicourt , France |