Louis Joxe

Louis Joxe (born September 16, 1901 in Bourg-la-Reine , Département Seine , † April 6, 1991 in Paris ) was a French diplomat and Gaullist politician. In the 1950s he was the French ambassador to the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany. Between 1960 and 1968 he was successively education, Algeria, reform and justice minister. Joxe was the French chief negotiator in the treaties of Évian , which led to Algeria's independence in 1962. From 1977 to 1989 he was a constitutional judge at the Conseil constitutionnel .

Life

Louis Joxe was a history and geography teacher and journalist before he joined the French Foreign Service in 1932. In 1935 he was in charge of the Agence Havaswar news agency . In the same year he founded the Center d'études de politique étrangère (study center for foreign policy; predecessor of the Institut français des relations internationales ).

Because of his Jewish origins, he was removed from service by the Vichy regime in 1940 and migrated to Algiers , where he taught at a grammar school. As a member of the Resistance under General Charles de Gaulle , he was General Secretary of the French Committee for National Liberation from 1943 to 1944 and, after the liberation of France, was General Secretary of the Provisional Government until 1946 .

In the Fourth Republic he worked again in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There he acted from 1946 to 1952 as director of cultural relations and delegate of France to UNESCO . He was then the French ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952–1955) and the Federal Republic of Germany (1955–1956). After returning to Paris, he was Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the transfer of power to General de Gaulle and the founding of the Fifth Republic, Joxe held various ministerial offices in the government cabinets of Michel Debré and Georges Pompidou from July 1959 to May 1968 . From July 24, 1959 to January 15, 1960, he was State Secretary to the Prime Minister , and from January 15 to November 22, 1960, Minister of Education. From November 22, 1960 to November 28, 1962, Joxe was Minister for Algerian Affairs. As such, he led the negotiations with the Algerian Liberation Front FLN , which on March 18, 1962 led to the Treaty of Évian and thus to the end of the Algerian War and the independence of Algeria. After the resignation of Pierre Sudreau , Joxe headed the Ministry of Education again from October 15 to November 28, 1962. From November 28, 1962 to April 1, 1967 he served as Minister for Administrative Reform with the rank of Ministre d'État and from April 6, 1967 to May 31, 1968 as Minister of Justice.

As a member of the Gaullist party Union démocratique pour la Ve République (UD-V ^e ) or Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR), he was a member of the National Assembly from 1967 to 1977 (three legislative periods), where he had a constituency in the Rhône department represented. From November 1977 to February 1989 he was a constitutional judge at the Conseil constitutionnel .

Honors

• 1952: Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1960: Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique

literature

• Chantal Morelle: Louis Joxe, diplomate dans l'âme. André Versaille, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Address by Louis Joxe (Paris, March 23, 1962)

predecessor	Office	successor
Georges Catroux	French ambassador to Moscow 1952–1955	Maurice Dejean
André François-Poncet	French ambassador in Bad Godesberg 1955–1956	Maurice Couve de Murville