Marcel Peyrouton
Bernard Marcel Peyrouton (born July 2, 1887 in Paris , † November 6, 1983 in Saint-Cloud , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ) was a French colonial administrator , diplomat and politician .
biography
From July 1933 to March 1936 he was General Resident of Tunisia . Immediately afterwards he was general resident of Morocco for 6 months .
In June 1940 he returned to Tunisia and was again General Resident of France until July 1940.
After France's defeat by Germany, the President of the Council of Ministers, Pierre Laval , appointed him Minister of the Interior in his cabinet on September 6, 1940 . In this role, Peyrouton appointed the architect Le Corbusier to be responsible for urban development in the devastated areas of France. As a well - known anti-Semite , Peyrouton made preparations for the later failed Madagascar plan to deport Jews to what was then the French colony. He also held the office of interior minister under Laval's successor François Darlan until February 14, 1941, when Darlan himself took over the office of interior minister. He was then ambassador to Argentina until April 1942.
From January to June 1943 he was Governor General of Morocco. He then handed this office over to General Georges Catroux , representative of the government of Charles de Gaulle in the Middle East .
On December 22, 1943, Peyrouton was arrested. In a procedure before the Commission d'Épuration he was acquitted after the end of the Second World War in December 1948 of the charge of collaboration with the German occupying forces .
Web links
- rulers.org
- Newspaper article about Marcel Peyrouton in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 243
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Adrien Marquet |
Interior Minister of France September 6, 1940 - February 14, 1941 |
François Darlan |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peyrouton, Marcel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peyrouton, Bernard Marcel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French colonial administrator, diplomat and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1983 |
| Place of death | Saint-Cloud , Hauts-de-Seine department , France |