Jean de Lipkowski

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Jean Noël de Lipkowski (born December 25, 1920 in Paris , † September 20, 1997 ibid) was a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly and temporarily Secretary of State and Minister.

Life

Family, World War II and a diplomat

Jean Noël de Lipkowski came from a noble industrial family who immigrated from Poland and was the son of Henri de Lipkowski, who received several awards for his services in World War I and who was murdered on March 20, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp . His mother Irène de Lipkowski was Vice-Mayor of Orly after the Second World War and, as a representative of the Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF), also a member of the National Assembly between 1951 and 1955. After attending the prestigious Lycée Henri IV, founded in 1795, he began studying law at the École libre des sciences politiques . However, he had to interrupt his studies after the German occupation in World War II and initially fled to London . On his return, he signed a student manifesto on November 11, 1940 and joined General Charles de Gaulle as corporal of the Free French Armed Forces FFF ( Forces françaises libres ) under the pseudonym "Jean de Ligny" . After several combat missions he participated in the liberation of the September 3, 1944 Lyon part

After La Liberation , the liberation from German occupation, and his return to Paris, de Lipkowski began training as a consular attaché on November 15, 1945 and, after completing it, was initially employed in the Asia and Oceania department on the Quai d'Orsay , the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . He then worked at the Consulate in Nanjing and as Third Secretary in the Far East Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he was attaché to the Embassy in China between 1947 and 1949 . Afterwards he was again an employee of the Asia and Oceania Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1952 and vice-consul in Madrid between 1952 and January 1954 . He later became Deputy Head of Cabinet of General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin , who became General Resident in Tunisia in November 1954 . He took part in the negotiations for the independence of Tunisia and then went to Rabat in September 1955 with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin , after he had been appointed President General in Morocco on August 31, 1955 . After General Boyer de Latour was recalled shortly afterwards on November 9, 1955, he was second class counselor at the embassy in the Soviet Union .

Deputy and State Secretary

However, Jean de Lipkowski returned to France shortly afterwards and was elected in the elections of January 2, 1956 as a candidate for the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste (PRRRS) of Pierre Mendès France with 42,738 votes in the first constituency of the Seine-et- Oise first became a member of the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) and was a member of this until December 8, 1958. During this time he was a member of the Interior Committee (Commission de l'Intérieur) , the Committee on Pensions (Commission des pensions) , the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères) and the Committee on General Suffrage, Constitutional Law, Rules of Procedure and Petitions (Commission du suffrage universel, des lois constitutionnelles, du règlement et des pétitions) . At the beginning of June 1958 he founded the Gaullist group Center de la réforme républicaine (CRR) with Henri Frenay , Paul Barberot , Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Philippe Dechartre . In the elections on November 30, 1958, he ran for the CRR in the ninth constituency of the Seine-et-Oise department, which included in particular Aulnay-sous-Bois , for re-election. However, he suffered a defeat against the candidate of the Parti communiste français (PCF) Robert Ballanger and thus resigned from the National Assembly.

Photo of the duel in Neuilly-sur-Seine . V. l. To the right: Duelist Ribière, referee Lipkowski, duelist Defferre

On December 6, 1962, he was again a member of the National Assembly for the Union pour la Nouvelle République-Union Démocratique du Travail (UNR-UDT) in the Charente-Maritime department . He was also a member of the European Parliament from 1962 to 1968 and mayor of Royan for the first time between 1965 and 1977 . In the Charente-Maritime department he was again a member of the National Assembly on April 3, 1967 for the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) and on July 11, 1968 for the Union pour la défense de la République (UDR). On April 21, 1967 he was in the park of a villa in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris referee at the last official duel in France with the sword . This was carried out by MP Gaston Defferre and Gaullist MP René Ribière . Defferre had called Ribière idiots (abruti) during a session of the French National Assembly , and Ribière had then called for a duel "to restore his honor". The nationalist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen acted as Ribière's second ; The referee was Jean de Lipkowski. The duel, which took place in the presence of photographers and a camera team, was canceled after four minutes after Defferre injured his opponent twice and left him with a bleeding wound on his epee arm.

On August 12, 1968, he resigned his mandate after he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secrétaire d'État aux Affaires étrangères) in the Couve de Murville cabinet . Between June 20, 1969 and July 5, 1972, he also held the post of State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry in the subsequent Chaban-Delma cabinet . On December 13, 1971, he was again a member of the National Assembly for the UDR in the Charente-Maritime department, but resigned this mandate on January 12, 1972 due to his office as State Secretary. He was on April 2, 1973 for the Union des démocrates pour la République in the Charente-Maritime department again a member of the National Assembly. However, this time he renounced the mandate again on May 12, 1973, after he had become State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry in the Messmer II cabinet on April 13, 1973 . De Lipkowski held the office of State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry between February 28 and May 28, 1974 in the Messmer III cabinet .

Ministers and re-elections for MPs

As the successor to Pierre Abelin , Jean Noël de Lipkowski was finally appointed Minister for Cooperation (Ministre de la coopération) in the Chirac I cabinet on January 12, 1976 and was a member of this until the end of his term on August 25, 1976.

After leaving the government, he became a member of the National Assembly for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) in the Charente-Maritime department on April 3, 1978 . He was confirmed as such on July 2, 1981, April 2, 1986, June 12, 1988 and April 2, 1993, respectively. He was again Mayor of Royan between 1983 and 1989 and resigned from the National Assembly on April 21, 1997, a few months before his death on September 20, 1997. He was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 , among other things . His marriage to Nadine Hecquet d'Orval had two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'insulte à mort? ( Memento from October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (contains a link to the weekly report with a film recording of the duel)
  2. ↑ Philipp Schnee: Hewing and stabbing for fame and honor. Spiegel Online, October 2, 2009, accessed December 11, 2019
  3. ↑ MINISTÈRE CHIRAC 1
personal data
SURNAME Lipkowski, Jean de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lipkowski, Jean Noël de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly and Minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1997
Place of death Paris