Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer [ pɔl duˈmɛːʀ ] (born March 22, 1857 in Aurillac , France , † May 7, 1932 in Paris , France) was a French statesman and penultimate President of the Third Republic (1931-1932). He was Governor General of Indochina (1897–1902) and held the office of Finance Minister several times (from 1895–1896, 1921–1922, 1925–1926).
Life
The son of a working-class family, who was orphaned at an early age, was initially a mathematics teacher before turning to journalism and being elected member of parliament for the first time in a constituency in the Aisne department in 1888. As a high-grade Freemason in the Grand Orient , he joined the parliamentary group of the Parti radicale . In 1912 he was elected Senator in Corsica . In 1927 the Senate elected Doumer, whose four sons had died in World War I, as its president.
He reached the high point of his political career on May 13, 1931, when he was elected French president in the second round against Aristide Briand . On May 6, 1932, he was assassinated. At the opening of a book fair in Paris in the early afternoon, the Russian émigré Pawel Gorgulow (in French spelling Paul Gorguloff ) fired at Doumer several times. This suffered serious injuries.
In a Paris hospital he was cared for by the surgeon Gosset. One of the two bullets had penetrated the skull and around 8 p.m. had revealed a severe cerebral haemorrhage, which led to Doumer's death that same night.
Doumer Island and Doumer Hill in Antarctica are named after Doumer .
Web links
- Newspaper article about Paul Doumer in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 306 f.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
|
Alexandre Ribot Frédéric François-Marsal Louis Loucheur |
Minister of Finance of France November 1, 1895–29. April 1896 January 16, 1921-15. January 1922 December 16, 1925–9. March 1926 |
Georges Cochery Charles de Lasteyrie Raoul Péret |
| Léon Bourgeois |
President of the French Chamber of Deputies January 10, 1905–8. June 1906 |
Henri Brisson |
| Justin de Selves |
French Senate President January 14, 1927-13. May 1931 |
Albert Lebrun |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doumer, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | President of France (1931-1932) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aurillac |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1932 |
| Place of death | Paris |