Norbert Zafimahova

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Norbert Zafimahova (born October 28, 1913 in Ambarikorano ; † April 3, 1974 ) was a Malagasy politician and State Secretary.

Life

From 1948 to 1958 he was Senator for Madagascar in the French Senate of the IV Republic . In 1956 he founded the UDSM (Union des Démocrates Sociaux de Madagascar) and ran for president of the National Assembly (Madagascar) in 1959 (1958-1960) unsuccessfully against Philibert Tsiranana for the office of president.

During the dispute over the political reforms and the reintroduction of the Fokon'olona, ​​he crashed on July 3, 1974 in an airplane in which Hannes Kamphausen (* 1936, † 1974), an advisor to the left-wing interior minister Ratsimandrava , was originally supposed to fly.

Individual evidence

  1. Heart of the People . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1975 ( online ).