Pierre Mazeaud

Pierre Mazeaud (born August 24, 1929 in Lyon ) is a French lawyer , Gaullist politician and alpinist .

Professional activity

Mazeaud, who holds a doctorate in law, has held many offices in the course of his professional career. He held a professorship at the Sorbonne in Paris , was a member of the French National Assembly, Vice-President of the French National Assembly and President of the French Constitutional Court .

Professional background

From 1961 to 1964, Pierre Mazeaud was a professional judge. In 1961 he became a representative on the Prime Minister's staff. From 1962 to 1967 Mazeaud was a specialist advisor to the Justice Minister's staff. In 1967 the former judge took a position as a representative at the Ministry of Youth and Sport, which he carried out until 1968. From 1968 to 1973 he was a member of the Hauts-de-Seine department . In 1973 Mazeaud joined the Prime Minister as State Secretary (until 1964), then he assisted the Minister of Education and from 1974 to 1976 he stood by the Minister for Quality of Life. He was always responsible for the areas of youth, sport and leisure. He then became a member of the State Council. Pierre Mazeaud became mayor of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in 1979 . He held this office for ten years. He was a member of the Haute-Savoie department for another ten years . For a year from 1987 he was Vice-President of the High Court of Justice, Supreme Court Justice and Chairman of the Legal Committee of the National Assembly . He became Vice President of the National Assembly in 1992 and 1997 (each for one year). His post of chairman of the Legal Committee of the National Assembly followed in 1993. From 1992 to 1998 Mazeaud was a member of the regional assembly of the Rhône-Alpes region . At the suggestion of Jacques Chirac , he was a member of the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Court) from 1998 to 2004 . He held the presidency of the Conseil constitutionnel from 2004 to 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 2005. In 2007 Mazeaud won the election as President of the Association française des docteurs en droit (AFDD) , the Fondation Charles de Gaulle and La Montagne pour 2018 , an organization with the aim of holding the 2018 Winter Olympics in the area between Annecy , Gap and Grenoble . In the same year , Nicolas Sarkozy also nominated him as Vice-President of the Comité de réflexion sur la modernization et le rééquilibrage des institutions . In 2008, Pierre Mazeaud became chairman of the Mazeaud Commission , which was responsible for drawing up a report on the government's immigration policy. The report, released in July 2008, strongly condemned the government's plans.

Alpinistic work

Mazeaud has been among the best mountaineers in Europe since the 1950s. Many first ascents, such as the Franzosenweg in 1959 on the north face of the Western Zinne , are due to him. International top mountaineers like Walter Bonatti , Toni Hiebeler and Toni Kinshofer were his mountain partners, which was unusual for a French mountaineer at the time.

In 1961 Mazeaud was involved in the Frêney tragedy , in which his rope mates Antoine Vieille , Pierre Kohlmann and Robert Guillaume as well as the Italian Andrea Oggioni were killed. It took Mazeaud a year to recover from the frostbite he had suffered.

In the following years Mazeaud undertook many climbing tours, on which he succeeded in numerous first ascents. He also undertook a number of expeditions, one to the Karakoram in 1965 and the first one to Mount Everest in 1971, led by Norman Dyhrenfurth .

In 1978 mountaineers led by Mazeaud and mountaineers led by Karl Maria Herrligkoffer joined forces on a Franco-German Mount Everest expedition. In the course of this undertaking, Mazeaud reached the summit on October 15, 1978 together with Kurt Diemberger . Two hours earlier, Jean Afanassieff and Nicolas Jaeger had ensured the first French summit success on Mount Everest.

First ascents

Mazeaud, René Desmaison , Pierre Kohlmann and Bernard Lagesse were the first rope teams to climb the western pinnacle over the north face in 1959 . Their route is also called the French Way. In 1960 Mazeaud and Kohlmann opened a new route on the Aiguille du Peigne . In 1963 the first ascent of Montblanc du Tacul followed over the north-east face. Mazeaud reached the summit of the Aiguille de Blaitière twice in 1964 , one time over the west face and the other time over the east face. In 1967 he climbed the Aiguille du Peigne again , this time over the north-east wall.

Movies

In 1972, the alpine drama from 1961 on the Frêney central pillar was filmed by Lothar Brandler under the title Der Blitz - Inferno am Montblanc . Mazeaud plays himself in this film.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Mazeaud - Munzinger biography on munzinger.com
2. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Auffermann: Decision in the wall . Schall Verlag GmbH, 2010, ISBN 978-3-900533-62-5 , p. 226 .
3. ↑ mountaineering legend Walter Bonatti died on 4-seasons.de
4. ^ Pit Schubert: Safety and risk in rock and ice . 7th edition. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7633-6016-6 , p. 22nd ff .
5. ^ Mazeaud et la loi de la survie . Article by Charlie Buffet on lemonde.fr , July 22, 2005.
6. ↑ Herrligkoffer Foundation website: “German-French Mount Everest Expedition, 1978” ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Website German Historical Museum Berlin: Art of the Document - in the mountains on dhm.de.

Web links

• 50 years of Frêneyppeiler on bergsteiger.de
• Literature by and about Pierre Mazeaud in the catalog of the German National Library