Louis Blacher
Louis Placide Blacher (born October 5, 1883 in Saint-Pierre , Martinique , † October 26, 1960 in Paris ) was a French colonial official. He was governor of Niger , Dahomey , French Somaliland and Guinea .
Life
Louis Blacher came from Martinique and had African ancestors. In 1905 he began to work for the French colonial administration in Madagascar and later moved to French West Africa . During the First World War he was particularly involved in the recruitment of African soldiers. Similar to Félix Éboué , who also had black skin and was not born in Africa, the French colonial administration calculated that Blacher could take on the role of a “middleman” between the African population and their European rulers. As the successor to Alphonse Choteau , Blacher was appointed governor of the French West African colony of Niger in 1930, which he remained until 1931. In 1932 he was governor of Dahomey, from 1932 to 1934 governor of French Somaliland and finally from 1936 to 1940 governor of Guinea. In October 1938 Blacher married the painter Béatrice Appia , the widow of Eugène Dabit, in Conakry . They had a son who was born in 1939.
Honors
- Knight (1919) and officer (1933) of the Legion of Honor
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ramón Grosfoguel: "Cultural Racism" and Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Core Zones of the Capitalist World-Economy . In: Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration , No. 2 September 2002, accessed on 14 August 2020 (English).
- ↑ Blacher, Louis Placide . Archives nationales website , accessed January 31, 2013.
- ↑ Index Bi-Bl . Website rulers.org, accessed January 31, 2013.
- ↑ Eugène Dabit . Henri Thyssens website about Robert Denoël, accessed January 31, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blacher, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blacher, Louis Placide (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French colonial administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Pierre , Martinique |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1960 |
| Place of death | Paris |