Pierre Joxe

Pierre Joxe (2010)

Pierre Joxe (born November 28, 1934 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Parti socialiste (PS). Between 1981 and 1993 he was minister of industry, the interior and defense, and chairman of the PS group in the National Assembly. From 1993 to 2001 he was the first President of the French Court of Auditors . Most recently he was a member of the Conseil constitutionnel , the constitutional council , from 2001 to 2010 .

Life

Pierre Joxe was born the son of Louis Joxe , a minister under General de Gaulle , and Françoise-Hélène Halévy in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. He is the grandson of the essayist Daniel Halévy and great-grandson of the playwright, playwright and librettist Ludovic Halévy . The watchmaker and physicist Louis Breguet is one of his other ancestors . His brother is the sociologist Alain Joxe .

After obtaining a license en droit and a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), he began his training in June 1960 at the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) , which traditionally trains the elite of administrative officials in France. Joxe completed this training as a member of the ENA class Albert Camus in 1962.

In June 1962, Joxe began working at the Court of Auditors. The following year he became rapporteur at the Commissariat général du Plan . He also taught from 1963 to 1973 as a lecturer ( maître de conférences ) at Sciences Po. From 1967 to 1970 he worked in the Department of Scientific and Technical Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Joxe was a leading member of the Parti socialiste from 1971 . From 1973 to 1984 he was a member of the Saône-et-Loire department in the National Assembly . From 1979 to 1982 he was President of the Regional Council of Burgundy . After François Mitterrand was elected President of the French Republic in 1981, Joxe briefly became Minister of Industry. From 1981 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1988 he was chairman of the socialist faction in the National Assembly. From 1984 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1991 Joxe was Minister of the Interior. After Jean-Pierre Chevènement's resignation in January 1991, he took over the post of Minister of Defense , which he held until 1993.

In March 1993, Joxe was appointed President of the Court of Auditors. He resigned from this position in February 2001 because he was appointed a member of the Constitutional Council by the President of the National Assembly ( Raymond Forni ) with effect from March 12, 2001. He held this office until March 12, 2010.

Private

Joxe devotes part of his private life to music. He has been playing the piano since childhood, which he learned from his grandmother, a pianist and cousin of Georges Bizet . At the age of 60 he began to play the cello with the motivation to be able to play the six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach .

Works

• Un socialisme du possible (1970, with François Mitterrand )
• Parti socialiste (1973, with Jean François Mezières)
• Atlas du socialisme (1973)
• Speaking of France (1998)
• L' édit de Nantes  : Une histoire pour aujourd'hui (1998)
• L'édit de Nantes: Réflexions pour un pluralisme religieux (2004)
• Pourquoi Mitterrand? (2006)

Awards

• Commander of the Ordre national du mérite
• Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• Grand Cross of the Spanish Civil Order for Charity
• Grand Officer of the Senegalese Order of Lions
• Commander of the Greek Order of the Phoenix
• Commander of the Hungarian Order of Merit

Web links

• Biography of Pierre Joxe on the Conseil constitutionnel website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emmanuel Davidenkoff: Pierre Joxe ( Memento of the original from October 6, 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. . Radio broadcast on France Musique from the Les enfants de la musique series , March 6, 2010. (French)