Jules-Antoine Buehrer

Jules-Antoine Bührer (born September 25, 1879 in Saint-Denis-du-Sig, Oran , † September 9, 1965 in the 5th arrondissement , Paris ) was a French general .

Life

Bührer completed an officer training and then found various uses as an officer and staff officer in the army (Armée de terre), such as commander of a battalion of the territorial infantry and the battalion of the war school (École de guerre) in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . For his services he was on 18 November 1914, the Knight's Cross and on 16 June 1920, the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor Award. On September 25, 1924, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on July 8, 1925, he was seconded to the command of the Inspector General of the Colonial Forces and, subsequently, in 1925, Deputy Head of Cabinet of War Ministers Paul Painlevé (1925 to 1926 and 1926 to 1929), Adolphe Guillaumat (1926), André Maginot (1929 to 1930 and 1930), René Besnard (1930) and Louis Barthou (1930 to 1931). As such, he was promoted to colonel on September 25, 1926 .

After his promotion to brigadier general on March 1, 1931, Bührer was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Defense of the Colonies between March 1 and July 21, 1931 and commander of the 2nd West African Brigade from February 16 to December 29, 1932 (2e Brigade des troupes de l'Afrique-Occidentale français) . On July 8, 1932, he became commander of the Legion of Honor. He then acted between December 29, 1932 and September 10, 1935 director of the colonial troops in the War Ministry and was promoted as such on December 3, 1934 to major general. He then acted from September 10, 1935 to December 16, 1937 as commander-in - chief in French Indochina and was promoted to lieutenant general on May 29, 1936 as such . On June 30, 1937, he became a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. After that he was between December 16, 1937 and September 25, 1941 General Inspector of the Colonial Troops and, at the same time, President of the Advisory Committee for the Defense of the Colonies. In this position he was promoted to General ( Général d'armée ) on May 17, 1938 and as such was also a member of the Supreme War Council between May 17, 1938 and September 2, 1939, from May 19, 1938 to May 6, 1938 November 1940 chief of staff of the colonial troops and between November 6, 1940 and September 25, 1941, inspector of the colonial troops in France. On September 25, 1941, he left active military service and retired.

Web links

• Entry in Archives nationales
• Entry in generals.dk