Léon Solomiac

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Léon Solomiac (born July 20, 1884 in Cajarc , Département Lot , † May 10, 1960 in Cannes ) was a French administrative officer. He was the incumbent head of state of the Syrian Republic , governor of several French colonies and prefect in metropolitan France .

Life

Léon Solomiac was the son of a shopkeeper . In the course of his career in the French colonial service, he was appointed a delegate in Beirut in July 1925 and a delegate in Damascus in 1930. France administered these places on the basis of the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon . After Taj ad-Din al-Hasani was deposed , Solomiac served as head of state of the Syrian Republic from November 19, 1931, until Muhammad Ali al-Abid was elected president by the Syrian parliament on June 11, 1932 . Léon Solomiac then represented Louis Fousset as governor of French Sudan on an interim basis from May 22 to November 30, 1933 . On August 15, 1934, he succeeded Georges Bourret as governor of French India . He held this position until October 1936. He was succeeded by Horace Crocicchia . Solomiac was used interim as Governor General of French Equatorial Africa on April 21, 1939 instead of Dieudonné Reste . In this office, Pierre Boisson replaced him on September 3, 1939 . On November 7, 1940, Solomiac took over the post of governor of Niger on an interim basis from Jean Rapenne . However, he was considered untrustworthy by the Vichy regime , was deposed and replaced on December 8, 1940 by General Maurice Falvy . In August 1944, Léon Solomiac was entrusted with the management of the official business of the Prefect of the Tarn Department. As "Prefect of Liberation " he replaced a prefect appointed by the Vichy regime in July 1944 and was in office until early 1946.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nadine Méouchy: France, Syrie et Liban, 1918-1946. The ambiguities et les dynamiques de la relation mandataire . Institut français d'études arabes de Damas, Damascus 2002, p. 148.
  2. ↑ Syria . WordStatesmen.org website, accessed February 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Mali . WordStatesmen.org website, accessed February 18, 2013.
  4. ^ India . WordStatesmen.org website, accessed February 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Congo (Brazzaville) . WordStatesmen.org website, accessed February 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ Niger . WordStatesmen.org website, accessed February 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ Marc Carlier: Méharistes du Niger. Contribution to l'histoire des unités montées à chameau du territoire nigérien: 1900 to 1962 . L'Harmattan, Paris 2000, p. 366.
  8. ↑ Les préfets du Tarn des origines à nos jours . Website of the Département du Tarn, published July 5, 2012, accessed February 18, 2013.
  9. ^ Léon Solomiac (1884-1960) . In: Revue du Tarn . No. 18 / June 1960.
personal data
SURNAME Solomiac, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Cajarc , Lot
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1960
Place of death Cannes