Maurice Falvy

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Maurice-Émile Falvy (born March 4, 1888 in Reims , † June 2, 1970 in Mézy-sur-Seine ) was a French general .

Life

Maurice Falvy became the commanding officer of the Tirailleurs sénégalais in 1934 in Chad in French Equatorial Africa . From June 1935 to February 1936 he took over the post of commander of the Chad region from Charles Dagain on an interim basis . From 1937 to 1938 Falvy attended the Center des Hautes Etudes Militaires , the general staff school in Paris . He then worked from 1938 to 1940 as director of the colonial troops in the Paris Ministry of War. During the Second World War in 1940, General Falvy commanded the 3rd Colonial Infantry Division on the Maginot Line . In May 1940, while defending the La Ferté infantry factory, he gave an order to hold out, as a result of which 107 men died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Also in May 1940, the future President of the Republic, François Mitterrand , who was under his command, was wounded. Maurice Falvy became a German prisoner of war and was soon released on condition that he would not commit any future acts that would damage the German Reich. From then on, Falvy served the Vichy regime , from which he was sent to Niamey in French West Africa in late 1940 to command the colonial troops of Niger and Dahomey . He also took command of the border troops between Niger and Chad. On December 8, 1940, he succeeded Léon Solomiac as governor of the colony of Niger. Solomiac was not considered trustworthy by the Vichy regime. With Maurice Falvy, for the first time since 1922, no civilian was at the head of the colony. On March 4, 1942, Jean Toby succeeded him as governor. General Falvy assumed command of the ground forces of French West Africa. On leave from 1943, he retired in 1945. Maurice Falvy died in a retirement home in Mézy-sur-Seine in 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography of Lieutenant-General Maurice-Emile Falvy (1888-1970), France . Generals.dk website, accessed March 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ Chad . WorldStatesmen.org website, accessed March 8, 2013.
  3. ^ Gérard Giuliano: Les soldiers du béton: la Ligne Maginot dans les Ardennes et en Meuse, 1939-1940 . Éditions Terres Ardennaises, Charleville-Mézières 1986, p. 345.
  4. ↑ Lucien Bodin: Des tours de Laon aux mines d'Essen . Publibook, Paris 2004, p. 125
  5. ^ Catherine Akpo-Vaché: L'AOF et la Seconde Guerre mondiale (September 1939 - October 1945) . Karthala, Paris 1996, p. 100.
  6. ↑ a b c Roger Bruge: Les combattants du 18 juin. Vol. 4: Le cessez-le-feu . Fayard, Paris 1988, p. 233.
  7. ↑ a b Niger . WorldStatesmen.org website, accessed March 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ Marc Carlier: Méharistes du Niger. Contribution to l'histoire des unités montées à chameau du territoire nigérien: 1900 to 1962 . L'Harmattan, Paris 2000, p. 366.
  9. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 267.
personal data
SURNAME Falvy, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falvy, Maurice-Émile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Reims
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1970
Place of death Mézy-sur-Seine