René Haby

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René Haby (born October 9, 1919 in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe ; † February 6, 2003 ) was French Minister of Education from 1974 to 1978.

Haby's father, a factory worker, died at the age of 7. He attended school in Dombasle, began training as a teacher in 1934 and worked as such at Nancy from 1938 . In 1940 he was drafted and became a German prisoner of war. After his release in 1941, he worked again in Nancy, but at the same time acted as the Maquis's liaison . After the war, he continued his literary studies at Nancy College and obtained his doctorate in 1965. From 1962 to 1965 he was head of the education department in the Ministry of Education and also held a high position under the Minister for Youth and Sport, François Missoffe, from 1966 to 1968. From 1972 to 1974 he was director of the Academy of Clermont-Ferrand before he was appointed Minister of Education in the first cabinet of Jacques Chirac on May 28, 1974 . In this office he initiated the reform of the unified university ("Haby Reform"), the structures of which he strongly standardized. Haby held the ministerial office until April 5, 1978 and was a member of the National Assembly for the Meurthe-et-Moselle department until 1988 .