Michel Cointat

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Michel Cointat, 1993.

Michel Cointat (born April 13, 1921 in Paris ; † November 16, 2013 ibid) was a French politician of the Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR) and later of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), which between 1967 and 1971 and again was a member of the National Assembly from 1973 to 1993 . Between 1971 and 1972 he was Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Foreign Trade from 1980 to 1981. He was also a member of the European Parliament from 1968 to 1971 and again between 1974 and 1979 .

In addition, Cointat published numerous volumes of poetry and non-fiction books and received various literary awards.

Life

Studies and professional career

Cointat, son of the businessman Lucien Cointat and his wife Marie-Louise Adam, completed his school education at the Lycée Montaigne and the traditional Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and then began studying agricultural sciences at the Institut national agronomique , which he worked as an agricultural engineer completed. A post-graduate studies of subjects Water and Forestry at the Ecole nationale des eaux et forêts he finished (ENEF) also as an engineer.

After completing his studies, he became head of the water and forestry department of the canton of Uzès in 1943 and was then head of the water and forestry inspection in Joinville between 1949 and 1958 . In addition, he has been involved in the Society for the Development of Fallow and Thicket in Eastern France (Société d'aménagement des friches et taillis de l'Est) since 1948 , of which he was Deputy General Director from 1948 to 1961 and President and General Director between 1961 and 1971 .

In 1962, Cointat became the head of cabinet of the Minister of Agriculture Edgard Pisani and then acted between 1962 and 1967 as Director General of the Department for Production and Markets in the Ministry of Agriculture, in which he was also chief of the agricultural engineering service as an engineer. From 1964 to 1967 he also held the position of Administrative Director of the National Bureau for Nitrogen Production and Administrative Director of the state potash mines in Alsace . He was also a member of the National Commission for Agricultural Reports.

Fifth Republic

Member of Parliament and Minister of Agriculture

In the elections of March 12, 1967, Cointat was elected a member of the National Assembly for the first time as a candidate for the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) in the fifth constituency of the Ille-et-Vilaine department and in the subsequent election on June 23, 1968 re-elected. At the same time, he was a representative of France in the European Parliament from 1968 to 1971 .

On January 8, 1971, Cointat was appointed Minister of Agriculture (Ministre de l'Agriculture) in his cabinet by Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas as the successor to Jacques Duhamel, who had been appointed Minister of Culture and held this ministerial office until the end of Chaban-Delmas' term on 5 January 1971 . July 1972. When he was appointed minister, he resigned his parliamentary mandate on February 7, 1971, so that his “piggyback candidate” Augustin Beauverger succeeded him as a member of the National Assembly.

Mayor of Fougères and re-elections in 1973 and 1978

In addition to his ministerial work, Cointat also became mayor of Fougères , a municipality in Brittany, in 1971 .

In the elections of March 11, 1973, he was re-elected a member of the Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR) in the fifth constituency of the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and thus took over his old mandate again, especially since his successor Beauverger on 14 Died September 1972. In addition, between 1974 and 1979 he was again a member of the European Parliament, representing France. In addition, he was active as a member and president of the finance committee of the regional council of the region Brittany, as vice president of the Committee for Studies and relationships for Breton interests celib (Comité d'études et de liaison des intérêts bretons) , as president of the National Horticultural Society SNHF (Société national d'horticulture de France) and as President of the Association for Information and Promotion of Brittany.

In the elections of March 19, 1978 he was re-elected as a member of the fifth constituency of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, this time running for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR).

Foreign Trade Minister and Member of Parliament from 1981 to 1993

On October 2, 1980, Cointat was appointed by Prime Minister Raymond Barre to succeed Jean-François Deniau as Minister of Foreign Trade (Ministre du commerce extérieur) in his third cabinet , to which he was a member until the end of Barre's tenure on May 13, 1981. After being appointed to the government, he resigned from his seat on October 3, 1980.

On June 14, 1981, Cointat was re-elected to the National Assembly for the RPR and, after being re-elected on March 16, 1986 and June 5, 1988, continued to represent the interests of the fifth, respectively, until he left parliament on April 1, 1993 in the ninth legislative period of the sixth constituency of the Ille-et-Vilaine department. During his membership in the National Assembly, he served as questeur as a member of the Presidium of the National Assembly between 1988 and 1990 .

Other engagement, awards and family

In addition to his membership in parliament, he was President of the Paneuropa Union in France between 1990 and 1992 and President of Tourisme en espace rural , an organization that promotes tourism in rural areas, from 1990 to 1998 , and also President of Qualité-France between 1992 and 1996 , an organization promoting agricultural products. Cointat also served as President of the Agricultural Academy ( Académie d'agriculture de France ) in 1996 , as President of ECTI (Echanges et consultations techniques internationaux) between 1997 and 2003 , an institution promoting international exchange and technical advice, and finally from 2000 to 2003 as President of the Académie de l'art de vivre founded by Pierre Benoit , Paul Morand and Jean Cocteau .

Cointat has received several awards for its many years of service. He became, among other things, commander of the Legion of Honor , officer of the Ordre national du Mérite , commander of the Ordre du Mérite agricole , officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Knight of the Order for Services to the National Economy . In addition, he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with the Star of the Federal Cross of Merit and the Royal Victorian Order . He also became Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Grand Officer of the Rio Branco Order .

His two sons emerged from his marriage with Simone Dubois on August 11, 1942. The older son Christian Cointat was a member of the Senate between 2001 and 2014 , where he represented the interests of the French outside France , while Alain Cointat worked as a writer and general controller of the Agricultural Authority (Contrôleur général des offices agricoles) .

Publications

In addition to his professional and political activities, Cointat wrote several volumes of poetry, but also specialist books on agricultural, tourist and historical topics. He has also received several awards for his literary work, including the Prix ​​littéraire du conseil général de la Haute-Marne (1957), the Prix ​​Eugène Piccard of the Académie française for the work Tresques en Languedoc: l'histoire vivante dans le Midi (1980), the Prix ​​Marie Havez-Planque of the Académie française for the collection of poems Moments inutiles (1984) and the Prize of the Société des poètes français .

His most important works include:

  • Les Heures orangées , poems, 1974
  • Tresques en Languedoc: the history of life in the midi , 1979
  • Les Moments inutiles , poems, 1983
  • Le Neveu de Jules Ferry , 1987
  • 1789: sept députés bretons à Versailles , 1988
  • Souvenirs de l'Uzège , 1992
  • Visages des jardins de France , 1993
  • Poèmes en fleurs , 1994
  • Fleurs en fêtes , 1997
  • Rivarol et Couloirs de l'Europe , 2001
  • Histoires de fleurs , 2002
  • Les couloirs de l'Europe , 2002, ISBN 2-7475-1878-7
  • Rivarol (1753-1801): Un écrivain controversé , 2003 ISBN 2-7475-1026-3
  • Le Moyen Age Moderne , 2004, ISBN 2-7475-5719-7
  • Histoires de fleurs: Les jolies fleurs du jardin , 2004, ISBN 2-7475-2149-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (3rd legislative period)
  2. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (4th legislative period)
  3. ↑ Chaban-Delmas cabinet
  4. ↑ Eric Roussel: Georges Pompidou , 2004
  5. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (5th legislative period)
  6. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (6th legislative period)
  7. ↑ Barre III cabinet
  8. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (7th legislative period)
  9. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (8th legislative period)
  10. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (9th legislative period)
personal data
SURNAME Cointat, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and writer, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2013
Place of death Paris