Max Fléchet

Max Fléchet (born May 10, 1901 in Chazelles-sur-Lyon , Département Loire ; † October 11, 1983 ibid) was a French politician who was a member of the Senate between 1948 and 1958 and again from 1963 to 1965 and was temporarily State Secretary .

Life

After attending school, Fléchet began to study science, which he completed with a Baccalauréat ès sciences , and then worked in his parents' hat factory. In 1929 he was elected a member of the municipal council of his birthplace Chazelles-sur-Lyon and in 1931 also took over the post of President of the Association of Hat Manufacturers of France (Union des fabricants de chapeaux de France) . He was also in 1932 a member of the General Council of the Loire department, and in 1941 the Vichy regime for mayor appointed by Chazelles-sur-Lyon and held that office for three years until 1944. After the Second World War, he became in 1947 a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Saint-Etienne and at the same time again mayor of Chazelles-sur-Lyon, where he held this post until 1959.

In the elections of November 7, 1948, Fléchet was elected for the first time as a member of the Senate as the top candidate on the list of Independent Republicans (Républicains Indépendants) in the Loire department . There he was a member of the finance committee and the committee for universal suffrage and was also re-elected to the general council of the Loire department in 1949, to which he belonged until 1967. In the elections of June 19, 1955, he was re-elected a member of the Senate in the first ballot at the top of the list of the National Center of Independents and Farmers CNI ( Center national des indépendants et paysans ) in the Loire department. He was in the period following the October 4, 1956 Vice President of the Finance Committee and High on July 24, 1958 Commissioner on National Economy and Foreign Trade (Haut Commissaire à l'économie national et au commerce extérieur) and held this position newly created to 8 January 1959.

Subsequently, on January 8, 1959, Fléchet was appointed by Prime Minister Michel Debré as State Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and Economics (Secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires économiques) in his cabinet and then served in this government from November 17, 1959 to January 19, 1960 as State Secretary for Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Finance and Economy (Secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires économiques extérieures) , where he resigned from his office together with Finance Minister Antoine Pinay .

After the previous André Chazalon had been elected member of the National Assembly in November 1962 , Fléchet was re-elected as his successor in a by-election on February 24, 1963 as his successor to the Senator and represented the Loire department. He joined the Républicains indépendants again and was again a member of the Finance Committee. In the elections of September 26, 1965, he ran again for a seat in the Senate, but suffered a defeat and left the Senate on October 1, 1965. He was for a time Vice President of the National Center for Foreign Trade CFCE (Center national du commerce extérieur) and between 1967 and 1969 President of the Franco-Soviet Chamber of Commerce. For his services he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor .

Web links

• Entry on the Senate homepage
• French Ministeries (rulers.org)