Paul Ely

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Paul Ély, second from left

Paul Henri Romuald Ély (born December 17, 1897 in Thessaloniki , † January 16, 1975 in Paris ) was a French Général d'armée .

Life

Paul Ély attended the Saint-Cyr Military School ; at the end of the First World War he was an officer in the infantry. During the German offensive in 1940, Ely was wounded in the right arm. After the defeat of France, he was accepted into the army of the Vichy regime and commanded a battalion. When the Germans occupied the rest of France in 1942, Ély joined the resistance group Organization de résistance de l'armée . After the liberation of France, Ély served as a director in the Ministry of Defense of free France . In 1946, Ély was promoted to general. During the Indochina War , as Chief of the General Staff , he took part in talks with the US about a possible US intervention. Ély was installed as the last French high commissioner for Indochina and delegated the withdrawal of the French expeditionary corps after the Indochina Conference in 1954.

He was French Chief of Staff from August 1953 to June 1954, from March 1956 to May 1958 and from June 1958 to February 1959. In 1961 he retired.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Ely, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ely, Paul Henri Romuald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Thessaloniki
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1975
Place of death Paris