Nicolas Margue

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Nicolas Margue (born January 2, 1888 in Fingig , Käerjeng ; † March 18, 1976 in Luxembourg ) was a Luxembourg politician of the Rietspartei and Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei (CSV), who was a minister in various departments and most recently a member of the State Council from 1959 to 1970 .

Life

Nicolas Margue, who worked as a teacher and was a member of the right-wing party (Rietspartei) , was appointed Minister for Public Education, Agriculture and Religion (Ministre de l'Instruction publique, Agriculture et Cultes) in the first Dupong government on November 5, 1937 . In the second Dupong government that followed , between February 7, 1938 and May 10, 1940, he continued to take over the offices of Minister for Public Education, Agriculture and Religion as well as acting Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce (Ministe du Commerce, Industrie et Métiers ad interim) .

After the occupation of Luxembourg in World War II by the German Wehrmacht on May 10, 1940, the first day of the Western campaign , he was the only minister in the previous Dupong-Krier government who did not go into exile and formed the Lëtzebuerg government in exile there . At 3:30 a.m. on May 10, 1940, he was refused entry at the border with Belgium . Instead he was classified as anti-German and relocated with his entire family to Silesia , where he was interned first in Leubus and then at Boberstein Castle. After his liberation he was president of the historical section (Section historique) of the Institut Grand-Ducal between 1945 and 1972 .

Shortly before the end of the war, on April 21, 1945, Margue was appointed to the so-called Government of Liberation , the fourth Dupong government, and took over the post of Minister of Agriculture and, as such, was also Minister for Returns (Ministre de l'Agriculture et Rapatriement) . After the formation of the government of the National University , the fifth government of Dupong, on November 14, 1945, he became Minister for National Education, Religion, Worship, Arts and Science and Agriculture (Ministre de l'Éducation nationale, Cultes, Arts et Sciences, Agriculture) and held these offices until July 14, 1948. He then served from March 1, 1947 to July 14, 1948 in the sixth Dupong government as Minister for National Education, Religion, Worship, Art and Science and Agriculture . As Minister of Education he was also one of the fathers of the controversial official spelling, the Officially Lëtzebuerger Orthography, together with the linguist Jean Feltes .

In 1952 Nicolas Margue became a member of the Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and in 1955 a member of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe founded by Jean Monnet . From 1957 to 1959 he was also a member of the European Parliament , which emerged from the Common Assembly of the ECSC. On August 4, 1959, he became a member of the State Council , a consultative body in the Luxembourg political system, and was a member until his resignation on September 30, 1970.

Streets in Luxembourg and Küntzig were named in his honor. He was the father of the politician Georges Margue , who from 1959 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1994 as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Chamber) belonged, as well as the historian Paul Margue .

Publications

  • Aperçu historique , in: Le Luxembourg, le livre du Centenaire , Imprimerie Saint-Paul, pp. 7–25, second edition 1949.
  • Mouvements contre-révolutionnaires dans le Luxembourg 1831–32 , Luxembourg 1939
  • The development of the Luxembourg national feeling from 1870 to the present day , in: German Archive for State and People's Research , Leipzig, 1937
  • Brief history of the City of Luxembourg: 963–1963 , co-author Paul Margue , Luxembourg 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government of Dupong I
  2. ^ Dupong II government
  3. ^ Government of Dupong IV
  4. ^ Dupong V government
  5. ^ Government of Dupong VI
  6. ^ Members of the Council of State since 1857
personal data
SURNAME Margue, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Fingery , Käerjeng
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1976
Place of death Luxembourg