Olivier Guichard

Olivier Guichard (2nd from right) with Senator Raoul Vadepied at a meeting in Évron (1973)

Olivier Guichard (born January 27, 1920 in Néac , Gironde department , † January 20, 2004 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), who was a member of the National Assembly for several years and was a minister several times. He also served as President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire between 1986 and 1998 .

Life

Family background and professional career

Guichard was the son of Corvette Captain Louis Guichard, who was head of cabinet of Admiral François Darlan between February 1941 and November 1942 , and a grandson of Joseph Brisson , who was a member of the National Assembly between 1902 and 1906 and mayor of Néac for 61 years from 1881 to 1942 .

He himself completed his school education at the traditional Lycée Condorcet in Paris and then studied literature , law and political science at the University of Paris and joined the Forces françaises libres (FFF) founded by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War . In 1947 he became involved in Gaullist movements and served as Charles de Gaulle's cabinet chief between 1951 and 1958 . He then worked as a Councilor of State (Conseiller d'État) at the Conseil d'État , the administrative court that is also an advisory body to the government.

He was also mayor of Néac between 1962 and 1971.

Minister and Deputy of the Fifth Republic

Presidency of Charles de Gaulle

Guichard was elected as a candidate for the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) on March 12, 1967 in the seventh constituency of the Loire-Atlantique department for the first time as a member of the National Assembly and was initially a member of this until May 7, 1967.

A month earlier, on April 7, 1967, Guichard was appointed by Prime Minister Georges Pompidou as Minister of Industry (Ministre de l'Industrie) in his fourth cabinet . When the government was reshuffled in the fourth cabinet on May 31, 1968, he took over the post of Minister Assistant to the Prime Minister with responsibility for planning and spatial planning (Ministre délégué auprès du Premier ministre, chargé du Plan et de l'Aménagement du territoire) and retained this position in the subsequent Couve de Murville cabinet until June 21, 1969.

On June 30, 1968 he was again elected a member of the National Assembly for the UDR and resigned from his mandate on August 12, 1968 due to his ministerial office.

Presidency of Georges Pompidou

In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas , Guichard took over the office of Minister for National Education (Ministre de l'Education nationale) on June 22, 1969 and held this office until the end of Chaban-Delmas' term of office on 5 June 1969 . July 1972 out.

In 1970 Guichard became a member of the General Council of the Canton of Guérande and was a member of it until 1982. He was also mayor of La Baule-Escoublac from 1971 to 1995 .

Chaban-Delmas' successor, Pierre Messmer , appointed Guichard on July 5, 1972 in his first cabinet as Minister for Equipment, Housing and Spatial Planning (Ministre de l'Equipement, du logement et de l'aménagement du territoire) . On March 4, 1973 he was re-elected for the UDR in the seventh constituency of the Loire-Atlantique department as a member of the National Assembly and, due to his ministerial office, resigned from his mandate on May 5, 1973. After the formation of the second Messmer government on April 5, 1973, he took over the office of Minister for Equipment, Housing and Tourism (Ministre de l'Equipement, du logement et du tourisme) and held this ministerial office until February 27, 1974. In the third Messmer government , he served from March 1 to May 27, 1974 as Minister of Spatial Planning, Equipment and Transport (Ministre de l'aménagement du territoire, de l'équipement et des transports) . On June 15, 1974 he was an honorary starter in the Le Mans 24-hour race .

Presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire

In addition to his parliamentary and ministerial activities, Guichard also served as President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire from 1974 to 1998 . His successor in this capacity was François Fillon .

In the first government of Prime Minister Raymond Barre , Guichard finally took over the post of Minister of State (Ministre d'Etat) , Keeper of the Seal (Garde des sceaux) and Minister of Justice (Ministre de la Justice) on August 27, 1976 and remained in this position until August 29 , 1976 . March 1977.

After leaving the government, Guichard was re-elected to the National Assembly on March 12, 1978 for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) in the seventh constituency of the Loire-Atlantique department. He was re-elected in the subsequent elections on June 14, 1981, March 16, 1986, June 12, 1988 and March 28, 1993. When he left the National Assembly on April 21, 1997, Guichard was a member of Parliament for twenty years.

During his parliamentary membership, he was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation and General Administration (Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de la législation et de l'administration générale de la République) from April 1978 to April 1993, and then from April 1993 to April 1997 a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères) .

Publications

• Aménager la France , 1965
• L'Éducation nouvelle , 1970
• Un chemin tranquille , 1975
• Vivre ensemble , 1976
• Mon Général , 1980
• You particulier au général , 1999
• Vingt ans en 40 Fayard , 1999

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• French Ministeries (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (3rd legislative period)
2. ↑ Pompidou IV cabinet
3. ^ Cabinet Pompidou IV (remodeling)
4. ↑ Couve de Murville cabinet
5. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (4th legislative period)
6. ↑ Chaban-Delmas cabinet
7. ↑ French Ministeries (rulers.org)
8. ↑ Eric Roussel: Georges Pompidou , 2004
9. ↑ Messmer I cabinet
10. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (5th legislative period)
11. ↑ Messmer II cabinet
12. ↑ Messmer III cabinet
13. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (6th legislative period)
14. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (7th legislative period)
15. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (8th legislative period)
16. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (9th legislative period)
17. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (10th legislative period)