Commander of the French Sector of Berlin

The Commander of the French Sector of Berlin was one of the four city commanders of Berlin who represented the French Army in the Interallied Military Command (later: Allied Command ) . The Allied Command was the body with which the four occupying powers, the USA , Great Britain , France and the Soviet Union, exercised control over Berlin after the Second World War . She was subordinate to the Allied Control Council .

Jean Ganeval, commandant of the French sector from 1946 to 1950

Commanders of the French sector of Berlin were:

rank	Surname	Period
Brigadier General	Geoffrey de Beauchêsne	July 1, 1945 - March 12, 1946
Brigadier General	Charles JMA Lançon	March 2, 1946 - October 4, 1946
Brigadier General	Jean Ganeval	October 4, 1946 - October 5, 1950
general	Pierre Carolet	October 1, 1950 - December 31, 1952
general	Pierre Mançeaux-Demiau	January 1, 1953 - December 31, 1954
general	Amédée Gèze	January 1, 1955 - September 30, 1958
general	Jean Lacomme	October 1, 1958 - February 25, 1962
general	Edouard K. Toulouse	1962-1964
general	François Binoche	1965-1967
general	Bernard Huchet de Quénetain	1967-1970
general	Maurice Routier	1970-1973
general	Camille Metzler	1973-1975
general	Jacques Mangin	1975-1977
general	Bernard d'Astorg	1977-1980
general	Jean P. Liron	1980-1984
general	Oliver de Gabory	1984-1985
general	Paul Cavarrot	1985-1987
general	François Cann	1987-1990

See also

• Military liaison missions
• Commander of the American Sector of Berlin
• Commander of the British Sector of Berlin
• Commander of the Soviet Sector of Berlin

literature

• Gerhard Keiderling: The principle of unanimity prevailed. The Allied Command 1945–1948 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 67-72 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Manceaux-Demiau , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 27/1955 of June 27, 1955, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)