Pierre Abelin

Pierre Louis Ernest Armand Abelin (born May 16, 1909 in Poitiers , Department Vienne , † May 23, 1977 ibid) was a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly and temporarily Secretary of State and Minister.

Life

World War II and member of the Constituent Assembly

Pierre Louis Ernest Armand Abelin, son of Armand Abelin and Marguerite Chevalier, began to study law at the University of Poitiers and the University of Paris , from which he graduated with a doctorate in law . He also obtained a diploma from the École libre des sciences politiques and, after his military service in 1931, became secretary to Marshal Hubert Lyautey , who was commissioner general of the Paris Colonial Exhibition at the time . After the beginning of the Second World War he became a liaison officer to British troops and, after the German occupation in World War II, director of various companies. At the same time he was director of the Union of Export Companies (Union française des industries exportatrices) and the Export Committee of the Cotton Industry between 1940 and 1945 . He also acted temporarily as director of the group of cocoa importers and the chamber of chocolate and confectionery manufacturers. On the other hand, he was involved in the resistance movement of the Resistance and published underground newspapers against the German occupying power and the Vichy regime that collaborated with them .

After La Liberation , the liberation from German occupation, Abelin began his political career and in May 1945 became a member of the Poitiers City Council . He was also a board member of La Tribune Economique between 1945 and 1947 . As a candidate for the Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP) in the Vienne department on October 21, 1945, he was a member of the National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante) with 21,709 votes . He was a member of the Finance Committee (Commissions des finances) and the Economic Committee (Commissions des affaires économiques) . On June 2, 1941, he was again a member of the National Constituent Assembly for the MRP in the Vienne department with 54,372 votes and was a member of this until November 27, 1946. He was also a member of the Finance Committee and the Economic Committee.

Deputy and State Secretary in the Fourth Republic

In the elections of November 10, 1946, Pierre Abelin was elected member of the first National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) for the MRP in the Vienne department and remained a member of the Finance Committee. At the same time he was still a member of the City Council of Poitiers between October 1947 and March 1953. On November 24, 1947 he was appointed to the Schuman I cabinet , where he served as State Secretary to the Prime Minister until July 16, 1948 (Secrétaire d'Etat à la Présidence du Conseil) . On September 5, 1948, he took over the post of State Secretary to the Prime Minister also in the Schuman II cabinet and held this until September 10, 1948. As State Secretary to the Prime Minister, he was responsible for coordinating the work of the Council of Ministers, the Planning Commission, relations with Parliament and information.

On June 17, 1951, Abelin was again elected member of the National Assembly for the MRP in the Vienne department with 20,464 votes and was initially still a member of the finance committee. On September 19, 1952, he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance (Secrétaire d'Etat aux finances) in the Pinay cabinet and held this office until the end of Pinay's term on January 8, 1953. In the local elections in March 1953 he was elected a member of the city council of Châtellerault . In January 1954 he became a member of the Defense Committee (Commission de la Défense nationale) in the National Assembly .

In the Faure II cabinet , Pierre Abelin took over the post of State Secretary for the Economy (Secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires économiques) on March 1, 1955 and held this position until February 1, 1956. In the elections of January 2, 1956, he was for the MRP in the Vienne department re-elected as a member of the National Assembly with 21,133 votes. He then became Vice President and finally, on June 16, 1957, President of the Economic Committee. As such, between 1956 and 1958 he was also President of the Supreme Council for Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries (Conseil supérieur de la Coopération technique pour les relations avec les pays étrangers) . In addition, he became President of the Industrial and Agricultural Association (Association de l'industrie et de l'agriculture française) in 1956 and President of the French-Ethiopian Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer franco-Ethiopiens) in 1958 .

Fifth Republic

Mayor, Member of Parliament and President of the General Council of Vienne

After the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic was passed on October 4, 1958, Abelin ran for the Action républicaine, agricole, économique et sociale (ARAES) in the second constituency of the Vienne department again for a seat in the National Assembly. However, he received only 18,606 votes and thus missed the re-entry into parliament . However, he was elected mayor of Châtellerault in March 1959 and held this office until his death in 1977. He also became a member of the Economic and Social Council (Conseil économique et social) in June 1959 and was chairman ( Président-directeur général ) of the Association of Supermarkets (Société française des supermarchés) from 1961 to 1972 .

In the election that followed, he was re-elected as a candidate for the Center démocratique (CD) in the second ballot on November 25, 1962 with 22,873 votes in the second constituency of the Vienne département as a member of the National Assembly and then belonged to the Committee on Finance, General Economics and Planning (Commission des finances, de l'économie générale et du plan) as a member. In December 1963 he replaced Pierre Pflimlin as President of the Center démocratique. In December 1965, he supported Jean Lecanuet's candidacy in the presidential election . He then became a member of the Executive Board in 1966 and General Secretary of the Center démocrate (CD), founded on February 2, 1966 in 1967. In the election of March 12, 1967, he was re-elected member of the National Assembly for the Center et Union des démocrates list in the Vienne département with 24,761 votes in the second ballot, after receiving 24,070 votes in the first ballot on March 5, 1967 and the absolute Missed majority by only 60 votes. He joined the Group Progrès et démocratie modern and remained a member of the Finance Committee. At the same time, on May 24, 1967, he was sent to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to represent France . In addition, he became President of the General Council of the Vienne Department in 1967 and held this office until his death, whereupon René Monory became his successor.

After the National Assembly was prematurely dissolved due to the May riots in 1968 , Pierre Abelin was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly in the second ballot on June 30, 1968 with 21,677 votes. He was in turn a member of the Progrès et démocratie modern group , which he left on October 5, 1972. He was again a member of the Finance Committee and an alternate member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. As a candidate for the Mouvement Réformateur (MR) founded by Jean Lecanuet and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber in 1972 , he was re-elected to the National Assembly with 29,909 votes in the election of March 11, 1973, and joined the constituent assembly on April 2 1973 to the group reformateurs démocrates sociaux .

Vice-President of the National Assembly and Minister

On April 3, 1973 Abelin was elected Vice President of the National Assembly and confirmed in this capacity on April 2, 1974. In the presidential election in 1974 he supported the candidacy of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , who was elected President of the Republic in the second ballot on April 19, 1974 with 13,396,203 votes (50.81%) .

After the formation of the Chirac I cabinet on May 27, 1974, Pierre Abelin was appointed Minister for Cooperation (Ministre de la coopération) and held this ministerial office until January 12, 1976, when Jean de Lipkowski succeeded him. After his appointment to the government, he resigned from the National Assembly on June 28, 1974. After his successor (suppléant) Robert Gourault died on August 30, 1975, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly in a by-election (élection partial) on October 19, 1975 with 27,418 votes and was able to stand up against the future Prime Minister in the second ballot Edith Cresson (24,700 votes) prevailed. Due to his still existing ministerial office, however, he resigned his mandate on January 19, 1976, whereupon his representative Jean-Jacques Fouqueteau succeeded.

In June 1932 he married Geneviève Terrat-Branly, daughter of the physicist and pioneer of radio technology Édouard Branly . His wife succeeded as mayor of Châtellerault after his death on May 23, 1977. The marriage resulted in five children, including the politician Jean-Pierre Abelin , who was also a member of the National Assembly, mayor of Châtellerault and a member of the European Parliament .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• France: Ministries in Rulers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MINISTÈRE CHIRAC 1