Paul Ramadier
Paul Ramadier ([ pɔl ʁama'dje ]; born March 17, 1888 in La Rochelle , † October 14, 1961 in Rodez ) was a French politician, prime minister and multiple minister .
Life
Ramadier grew up as the son of a psychiatrist in La Rochelle. After graduating from school, he studied law and then obtained his doctorate in 1911 in the field of Roman law . The topic of his dissertation was "Les effets de la missio in bona rei servandae causa" . From 1905 he was politically active in the newly founded socialist party Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO). In 1913 Ramadier joined the Freemasons' League . In the same year his son Jean Ramadier was born. For the department of Aveyronhe was a member of the National Assembly from 1928 to 1940, from 1945 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1958 . He was also Mayor of Decazeville from 1919 to 1959.
In 1936 he left the SFIO, joined the Union socialiste et républicaine and became Deputy State Secretary in the cabinet of Léon Blum . His jurisdiction covered mines , electricity and liquid fuels . In the cabinet of Camille Chautemps , Ramadier received the post of Deputy State Secretary for Civil Engineering .
From January to August 1938 he was Minister of Labor under Édouard Daladier . In the Popular Front government , he campaigned for improved social legislation. He worked on a renewal of the pension law, the work accident regulation and the 40-hour week. When there was a dispute with Daladier over the latter reform, Ramadier resigned. When the National Assembly gave the Vichy regime of Henri Philippe Pétain almost unlimited powers after the defeat in June 1940 , he voted against and joined the Resistance . For his commitment to the Jewish French, he was included in the list of Righteous Among the Nations at the Israeli Yad Vashem memorial . During the German occupation he rejoined the SFIO.
After the liberation he became Minister of Supply from November 1944 to May 1945 in the Provisional Government of General Charles de Gaulle , from December 1946 to January 1947 he took over the Justice Ministry from Léon Blum and forced approval of the Marshall Plan . After the Constitution of the Fourth Republic was adopted by the National Assembly, he was the First Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic from January to November 1947 .
On May 7, 1947, Paul Ramadier dismissed the communist ministers from the government. Mass demonstrations by communist workers forced him to resign.
In the government of Henri Queuille he was Minister of Defense from 1948 to 1949 . In this position he was responsible for the suppression of the Malagasy uprising, in which between 10,000 and 90,000 Malagasy people were killed. Insurgents were shot dead, tortured or taken to special camps.
Under Guy Mollet , Ramadier was Minister of Economics and Finance from 1956 to 1957 . Under the Mollet government, he was given the task of financing social policy, which made the war in Algeria and the related expenses almost impossible. Ramadier also initiated the introduction of the car vignette in France in 1956.
Web links
- Biography on the website of the French National Assembly (French)
- Newspaper article about Paul Ramadier in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ramadier, entry date Lodge( Memento of the original from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Cercle Ramadier. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- ↑ Ramadians, Freemasons( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Swiss Lodge Aarau. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- ^ Jacques Larrue, Jean-Marie Payen: Jean Ramadier. Governor de la décolonisation . Karthala, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84586-011-0 , p. 96.
- ^ Time Magazine, December 1, 1947 , accessed September 5, 2012
- ↑ Jean Fremigacci: 1947: L'insurrection à Madagascar. (French, last accessed March 28, 2009)
- ↑ Gérard Althabe Les luttes sociales à Tananarive en 1972. (PDF; 7.1 MB) In: Cahiers d'Études Africaines. 20, No. 4, 1980, p. 408.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ramadier, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, member of the National Assembly, Prime Minister and multiple minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Rochelle |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1961 |
| Place of death | Rodez |