Louis Malvy

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Louis Malvy in 1925

Louis-Jean Paul Malvy (born December 1, 1875 in Figeac ( Lot ), † June 10, 1949 in Paris ) was a French politician and radical socialist . He died of a heart attack on June 10, 1949 .

Live and act

Louis Malvy doctorate in 1901 in Paris to Dr. jur.

In the Lot department, Louis Malvy was a council member from 1901 to 1919, chairman of the council from 1916 to 1917 and mayor of Souillac from 1929 to 1940 . From 1906 to 1919 and from 1924 to 1940 he represented the Lot department in the French Chamber of Deputies .

The lawyer Malvy was Minister of the Interior in the Third French Republic from March to June 1914 under Gaston Doumergue , from June 1914 to October 1915 under René Viviani , from October 1915 to March 1917 under Aristide Briand , from March to August 1917 under Alexandre Ribot and from March until April 1926 again under Briand. Before that, in the spring of 1911 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice under Ernest Monis , then for six months he was State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior under Joseph Caillaux, and from December 1913 to March 1914 he was also Minister of Post, Economics and Industry under Doumergue.

1914–1917 the Minister of the Interior represented the truce in relation to the workers' movement.

exile

The radical Clemenceau had already been Prime Minister 1906-1909 . On November 16, 1917 he was again head of government. Clemenceau ruled with a hard hand. Peace with Germany was out of the question for him. A Frenchman who wanted such peace - even if it was one of his friends such as the above-mentioned Joseph Caillaux - was labeled an opponent of "dictateur" Clemenceau. 1917 Malvy was accused of betraying military secrets to the enemy and 1918 acquitted of high treason, but when interior minister during the war years 1914 to 1917 for five years for violation of the official duties of certain Spanish San Sebastián banished.

relationship

The Malvy family, small businesses driving from Souillac, can be genealogically to anno 1466 traced. Martin Malvy, Louis' father, was the director of a flour mill and mayor of Souillac for the last decade of the 19th century.

Louis Malvy married into the French landed gentry in 1901. With his wife Louise de Verninac (1878-1973) he had the son Charles and the daughters Paulette and Jeanne (1911-2001). The latter commanded a paratrooper unit as a resistance fighter . Paulette married Marcel Peyrouton . Charles fought in the war under de Gaulle . Born in 1936, grandson Martin Malvy is a socialist politician.

literature

  • Jean-Yves Le Naour: L'Affaire Malvy - Le Dreyfus de la Grande Guerre (for example: The Malvy Affair - the Dreyfus Affair of the First World War), Hachette Littératures 2007, Essays Collection, 377 pages, Prix Henri-Hertz 2008 ( see also )

Web links

Commons : Louis Malvy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Trotsky was expelled from France on the orders of Malvy in the early autumn of 1916 (Trotsky, p. 227, see also deportation from France at MIA ). He understands: “... it was war. The tsar was an ally ... So all that was left was to carry out Malvy's order. ”(Trotsky, p. 231) And Trotsky is amused because“ Malvy, the Minister of the Interior of France, who signed ... [the] deportation warrant himself from the Ministry soon afterwards Clemenceau was expelled from France on the accusation of pacifist intrigues. ”(Trotsky, p. 238) What an irony of fate - in 1929 Trotsky asked France in vain for political asylum. Malvy's orders are certainly still in place. (Trotsky, pp. 511-512)
  2. ^ In 1920 Caillaux was sentenced to three years in prison for correspondence with the enemy .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ French Martin Malvy
  2. ^ French Hachette Livre
  3. ^ French Prix ​​Henri-Hertz
  4. ^ French Le Sénat, Haute Cour de Justice sous la IIIe République
  5. ↑ eng. The Vindicator
predecessor Office successor

René Renoult
Paul Peytral
Camille Chautemps 		Minister of the Interior of France
March 17, 1914 to June 9, 1914 June
13, 1914 to August 31, 1917
March 9, 1926 to April 10, 1926
Paul Peytral
Théodore Steeg
Jean Durand
personal data
SURNAME Malvy, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malvy, Louis-Jean Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and radical socialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Figeac ( Lot )
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1949
Place of death Paris