Paul Bordier

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Paul Camille Bordier (born January 16, 1921 in Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente , Département Charente-Maritime , † October 5, 2003 in Paris ) was a French colonial official. He was governor of Niger and high commissioner of Ubangi-Shari .

Life

Paul Bordier worked for the French colonial administration in Africa. He initially worked as the director of economic affairs for French West Africa . Bordier was close to the left French party UDSR . On November 3, 1956, he succeeded Jean Ramadier as governor of the French overseas territory of Niger. One of his first tasks was to handle the local elections, which first took place on November 18, 1956 in Niamey and Zinder . The overseas territory of Niger received its own government in 1957, the Conseil de gouvernement . In his capacity as governor, Paul Bordier headed the government as head of government. The Deputy Prime Minister Djibo Bakary and the other ministers belonged, if they were not non-party, to the Sawaba party , which had won the parliamentary majority in the elections for the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1957 . On January 25, 1958, Louis Rollet Bordiers succeeded as Governor of Niger. Paul Bordier took up his new office as High Commissioner of Ubangi-Shari on January 29, 1958. He had to implement the extended autonomy granted to the area by the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic within the Communauté Française . Ubangi-Shari gained independence from France as the Central African Republic on August 13, 1960 . President David Dacko asked France to immediately recall Bordier as High Commissioner. Back in France, Paul Bordier was among other things president of the Syndicat national des établissements thermaux .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Pierre Kalck: Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic . 3rd ed., Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland 2005, ISBN 0-8108-4913-5 , p. 39.
  2. ^ André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , p. 78.
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 271-272.
  4. ^ Papa Alioune Ndao: La francophonie des Pères fondateurs . Karthala, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-8111-0036-0 , pp. 77-78.
personal data
SURNAME Bordier, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bordier, Paul Camille (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente , Charente-Maritime department
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2003
Place of death Paris