Pierre Bérégovoy

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Pierre Bérégovoy 1988

Pierre Bérégovoy (born December 23, 1925 in Déville-lès-Rouen , † May 1, 1993 in Nevers ) was a French politician of the Parti socialiste (PS).

Under President Mitterrand , he became Minister for Social Security and National Solidarity in the Mauroy Cabinet in 1982, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance ( Ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et du Budget ) in the Fabius Cabinet in July 1984 , and finally Prime Minister on April 2, 1992 . He was this until March 29, 1993. In addition, he held various other offices, including a. he was mayor of Nevers .

He was found shot dead on May 1, 1993. Apparently he died by suicide .

education

He came from a Ukrainian family (surname Береговой ) who emigrated from Russia to France during the Russian Civil War . After graduating from elementary school in 1937, in 1941, after leaving high school, he received a Brevet élémentaire industriel , a professional qualification certificate ( French certificat d'aptitude professionnelle ) as a fitter and for industrial design.

Professional career

In 1942 he passed his entrance exam for the national railway company SNCF . In 1944 he took part in the liberation of the outskirts of Rouen . In 1949 he was accepted into Christian Pineau's cabinet (Minister for Public Works and Transport in the Queuille government ) as a representative for relations with the trade unions . In 1950 he became a technical business economist at Gaz de France (GdF) in Rouen; in this capacity he was transferred to Paris in 1957 . In 1972 he became a representative at GdF. In 1978 he resigned from his position as deputy director of the GdF.

Political commitment

In 1944 he joined the SFIO and founded a trade union section of the Force ouvrière . In 1949 he took over the management of the socialist weekly newspaper La République de Normandie . After he left the SFIO in 1958, he co-founded the Parti socialiste unifié (PSU), in which he was Pierre Mendès France's employee responsible for social issues from 1960 . From this party he resigned in 1967, then he took part in political clubs under the leadership of Alain Savary . In 1969 he joined the newly founded Socialist Party at the party convention in Alfortville . In 1971 he took part in the party congress in Épinay, which joined the negotiations for the signing of a joint party program. In 1974 he supported François Mitterrand in the election campaign for the 1974 presidential election (which Mitterrand narrowly lost to Giscard d'Estaing ) and in 1977 led negotiations with the French Communist Party on a joint government program.

Political offices

  • 1981–1982 General Secretary of the Élysée Palace (highest ranking official) under President François Mitterrand
  • 1982–1984 Minister for Social Security and National Solidarity in the Pierre Mauroy government
  • 1984–1986 Minister of Finance and Economics in the Laurent Fabius government
  • 1988–1991 Minister of State in the Michel Rocard government's Ministry of Finance
  • 1991–1992 Minister of State in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and Foreign Trade in the Édith Cresson government
  • 1992–1993 Prime Minister
  • 1993 (provisional from March 9th) Minister of Defense

Mandates

As prime minister

President Mitterrand had demanded that Prime Minister Edith Cresson or her government - in office since May 15, 1991 - resign; this took place on April 2, 1992. Mitterrand appointed Bérégovoy Prime Minister on the same day. The Bérégovoy government resigned on March 29, 1993 after the PS failed in the Élections législatives françaises de 1993 (March 21 and 28, 1993).

death

Bérégovoy died on May 1, 1993. An hour after he was found in Nevers with a bullet in his head and in a coma, he was transferred to Paris by helicopter . According to the police investigation report, he committed suicide . His bodyguard testified that he had previously put his service weapon in the glove compartment of the company car and that Bérégovoy had stolen it.

Those around him had noticed that Bérégovoy was depressed . The criticism of buying an apartment in the XVI. Arrondissement in Paris, for which Roger-Patrice Pelat had granted him an interest-free loan as a favor, probably bothered him. Several people close to him said they believed a suicide would be logical. His wife expressed doubts because he did not leave his relatives a suicide note. Mitterrand (1916–1996) called him a loyal henchman.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  2. ↑ ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial the Order of Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bérégovoy, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Déville-lès-Rouen
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1993
Place of death Nevers