Pierre Dumas

Pierre Dumas (born November 15, 1924 in Chambéry , Département Savoie ; † February 4, 2004 ibid) was a French politician of the Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF), the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) and most recently the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), who was a member of the National Assembly , several times State Secretary and most recently from 1986 to 1995 a member of the Senate .

Life

Resistance fighters, members of parliament and mayor

Dumas, whose father François Dumas was also a senator from 1946 until his death in 1952, was involved in the Resistance movement against the German occupation forces during the Second World War . After the end of the war, he studied law at the University of Grenoble and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . During his studies he joined the Gaullist Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF) founded by Charles de Gaulle in 1947 and was an attaché in the office of the President of the Paris City Council , Pierre de Gaulle , between 1951 and 1952 . He then joined the packaging company Cartonneries de La Rochette as Commercial Director in 1953 .

In the elections of January 2, 1956, Dumas ran for the Républicains sociaux (RS) in the Savoie department for the first time for a mandate in the National Assembly, but suffered a defeat. In April 1958, however, he was elected as the successor to Léon Revil-Signorat by the MRP for the RS as a member of the General Council of the Savoie department and represented the canton of Beaufort until he was replaced by Lucien Avocat from the DVD in 1973 .

In the elections of November 30, 1958, he was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly as a candidate for the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) in the constituency of the Savoie Department No. 3 and was able to replace the previous MP and former Minister Pierre in the first ballot Beat Cot by the MRP. He was a member of parliament until May 15, 1962. At the same time he also succeeded Paul Chevallier as mayor of his native Chambéry in March 1959 and held this position until March 1977, after which he was replaced by Francis Ampe from the PS . During his parliamentary membership he was from July 1961 to April 1962 Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Production and Trade (Commission de la production et des échanges) .

State Secretary

On April 16, 1962, Dumas took over his first government office, as State Secretary for Public Works in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Secrétaire d'État aux travaux publics) in the first Pompidou cabinet . At the same time he was president of the Société française du tunnel routier du Fréjus (SFTRF) between 1962 and 2000 , a company for the construction and operation of the Mont-Cenis tunnel on the A43 autoroute between France and Italy . In addition, a month later, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, on May 16, 1962, he became State Secretary at the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament (Secrétaire d'État auprès du Premier ministre, chargé des relations avec le Parlement) and also held this office in the second and third Pompidou Cabinets until April 1, 1967. In the election of November 18, 1962, he was re-elected a member of the National Assembly for the list of the Union pour la nouvelle République-UDT , but renounced the mandate due to his government office. By presidential decree no. 63-265 of March 20, 1963, Dumas also took over responsibility for tourism in the second Pompidou cabinet, which previously lay with the Prime Minister. He also served as President of the Vanoise National Park between 1963 and 1983 .

In the election of March 5, 1967, Dumas was re-elected as a candidate for the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) as a member of the National Assembly, but resigned on May 7, 1967, after he had previously served in the fourth cabinet Pompidou took over the post of State Secretary to the Prime Minister for Tourism (Secrétaire d'État auprès du Premier ministre, chargé du tourisme) and held this position on May 31, 1968 until the cabinet was reorganized after the unrest in May 1968 .

In November 1967 he also became a member of the Central Committee of the UDR and was re- elected to the National Assembly on June 23, 1968 as a candidate for the Union pour la défense de la République (UDR), which he held until he resigned on August 12, 1968 belonged to. A month earlier he had taken on the post of State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs (Secrétaire d'État aux affaires sociales) in the Couve de Murville cabinet on July 13, 1968 , which he held until June 20, 1969.

Leaving the government and losing elections

In the subsequent Chaban-Delmas cabinet formed on June 20, 1969 , he was not considered, as Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas preferred to appoint Joseph Fontanet , also from the Savoie department, as Minister of Labor, Employment and Population .

In April 1970, however, Dumas became a member of the Politburo of the UDR and in October 1972 a member of the UDR Secretariat, where he was responsible for matters relating to elected local politicians. In the elections in April 1973 he was defeated, so that he did not become a member of the National Assembly again. Instead, he was chairman of the French delegation to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) from 1973 to 1978 and, as the successor to Michel Jobert between June 1973 and his replacement by Jean-Louis Bianco in April 1984, chairman of the administrative board of the National Forestry Office (Office national des forêts) . In addition, he was also Vice-President of the Regional Council of the Rhône-Alpes Region in January 1974 and Vice - President of the Association of Mayors of France in June 1974. In 1976 he was re-elected as a member of the General Council of the Savoie Department for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), to which he belonged as a representative of the canton Chambéry-Sud after his re-election in March 1982 until he was replaced by Jean Bollon from the UDF in 1986.

In March 1977, however, he also lost his office as Mayor of Chambéry to his challenger from the Parti socialiste, Francis Ampe. In March 1978 he ran again for re-entry into the National Assembly in the constituency of Savoie No. 3 , but this time too he suffered a defeat.

Re-election as mayor and senator

In honor of Pierre Dumas, the previous Place Octogone in Chambéry was renamed Place Pierre Dumas in 2005

Dumas was Vice President of the General Council of the Savoie Department between 1982 and 1986 and also a member of the Regional Council of the Rhône-Alpes region from 1983 to 1998 . In March 1983 he was re-elected mayor of Chambéry, this time being able to beat the incumbent Francis Ampe. He held the office of mayor until 1989 and was also vice-president of the regional council of the Rhône-Alpes region from March 1986 to 1998.

On September 28, Dumas was elected a member of the Senate for the RPR and resigned his seat in the General Council of the Savoie Department due to the incompatibility of the mandates. He was a member of the Senate for nine years until October 1, 1995. On October 9, 1986 he became a member of the Senate Committee for Economics (Commission des affaires économiques) and was a member of the Senate until October 1, 1995. In March 1989 he lost his office as Mayor of Chambéry to Louis Besson of the Parti socialiste, who shortly thereafter also became Minister for Housing at the Minister for Equipment, Housing, Transport and Marine Affairs in the second Rocard cabinet . In March 1982 he was re-elected as a member of the regional council of the Rhône-Alpes region and was subsequently vice-president of this regional assembly for transport and communication.

In honor of Pierre Dumas, the previous Place Octogone in Chambéry was renamed Place Pierre Dumas in 2005 .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Entry on the Senate homepage
• France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ^ François Dumas on the Senate homepage
2. ↑ Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
3. ^ Deuxième Georges Pompidou Governorate
4. ^ Troisième Gouvernement Georges Pompidou
5. ↑ Quatrième Governorate Georges Pompidou
6. ↑ Maurice Couve de Murville Governorate