Paul Bastid

Paul Bastid (1932)

Paul Raymond Marie Bastid (born  May 17, 1892 in Paris ; †  October 29, 1974 ibid) was a French lawyer and politician . He served from 1924 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1951 as a member of the French National Assembly and from 1936 to 1937 as Minister of Industry and Trade under Prime Minister Léon Blum . During the occupation of his home country in World War II , he was a member of the Conseil National de la Résistance , which coordinated and led the French resistance movement.

Life

Paul Bastid was born in Paris in 1892 , where he completed a degree in philosophy and law with a doctorate from the École normal supérieure . In both subjects he passed the admission test known as Agrégation for a university teaching position and later worked as a professor at the law faculty of the University of Lyon . In the 1920s he was a member of the French delegations to the meetings of the Assembly of the League of Nations .

During the time of the Third French Republic , he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies , one of the two chambers of the National Assembly, from 1924 to 1940 . He represented the Cantal department for the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste (PRRR) , in which he was also president of the Conseil général from 1934 to 1945 . From June 1936 to June 1937 he served as Industry and Trade Minister in Léon Blum's government .

During the occupation of France in World War II, he worked as a member of the Conseil National de la Résistance in the French resistance movement. After the end of the war and the establishment of the French Fourth Republic , he was a member of the Seine department from 1946 to 1951 and also a temporary member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union . He died in his hometown of Paris in 1974.

family

Paul Bastid was married to Suzanne Bastid , who was the first woman in France to receive a professorship at a law faculty and was accepted as a full member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . Jules Basdevant , his wife's father, was a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1946 to 1964 and President of the General Court from 1949 to 1952.

Awards

Paul Bastid was a full member of the history section of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques from 1946 and was also a knight of the Legion of Honor . For his service in the French resistance during the occupation of the country, he received the Médaille de la Résistance with rosette.

literature

• Notice biographique. Paul Bastid. In: Recueil des cours (Académie de droit international). Volume 72. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1949, pp. 169/170

Web links

• Assemblée nationale - Paul Raymond Marie Bastid (1892−1974) Biographical information (French, with picture)
• Newspaper article about Paul Bastid in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .