Louis Marin (politician)

Louis Marin

Louis Marin (born February 7, 1871 in Faulx , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle , † May 23, 1960 in Paris ) was a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly for over forty years and was a minister several times.

Life

After attending the Catholic school in the canton of Jarville-la-Malgrange , Marin attended the Lycée Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert in Nancy from 1887 to 1890 and then studied literature and law at the University of Nancy , which he graduated with a licentiate in 1892 . He then studied until 1894 at the Faculty of Law at the University of Paris and at the École libre des sciences politiques and then worked as a lawyer until 1910 .

In a by-election on October 8, 1905, Marin was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly and was a member of this until 1940, where he was part of the Entente républicaine démocratique (ERD) group between 1919 and 1924 and then until 1932 the Union républicaine et démocratique (URD) represented. He was also a member of the General Council of Canton Nomeny from 1910 to 1952 .

On March 29, 1924 he was appointed Minister for the Liberated Areas by Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and held this post in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Frédéric François-Marsal until June 14, 1924. On July 23, 1926, he became Prime Minister Poincaré was again appointed to his government and was Minister of Pensions until November 11, 1928.

Marin, who belonged to the Fédération républicaine (FR) from 1932 to 1940, was Minister of Public Health and Physical Education in Prime Minister Gaston Doumergue's government from February 9 to November 8, 1934 .

In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin , Marin was appointed Minister of State for the first time and held this honorary post in the following government of Prime Minister Fernand Bouisson and in the fourth cabinet of Pierre Laval until January 24, 1936. He was also from 1934 to 1952 President of the General Council of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.

After the beginning of the campaign in the West on May 10, 1940, he became Minister of State in the government of Prime Minister Paul Reynaud and was a member of the cabinet until the end of Reynaud's tenure on June 16, 1940. A few years after he left the government, he criticized the Compiègne armistice, which was concluded between the German Reich and France on June 22, 1940 .

After the end of the Second World War , he was again a member of the National Assembly in 1945 and represented the Républicains indépendants (RI) in this until 1951 .

Web links and sources

Commons : Louis Marin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• French Ministeries (rulers.org)
• Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 856
• Newspaper article about Louis Marin in the press kit for the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .