Robert Boulin

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Robert Boulin (born July 20, 1920 in Villandraut , Gironde department ; † October 30, 1979 in the forest of Rambouillet , Yvelines department) was French State Secretary and Minister under Charles de Gaulle , Georges Pompidou and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing .

Life

Boulin was the son of a tobacco controller. After graduating from school, he studied law and began working as a lawyer in 1946. During the Second World War , Boulin was a captain in the reserve and a member of the Resistance . Boulin was awarded the War Cross and the Resistance Medal. The lawyer was a member of the National Council of Social Republicans from 1947 to 1953. A candidacy in November 1958 for the constituency of Libourne and the Gaullist Union pour la Nouvelle République earned him a seat in the National Assembly. The following year he was elected mayor of Libourne and was subsequently re-elected twice (1965 and 1971) in this office. In 1961 Boulin moved to the government and took over the post of "State Secretary for Homecoming Issues". Subsequently, Robert Boulin served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Health, Minister for Relations with Parliament and Minister of Finance, among others. At the time of his death he was Minister for Labor, Employment and Health. In 1979, Boulin was targeted by the press for buying property in 1974 and failing to realize that the deal had been manipulated by fraudsters. The newspaper Le Canard enchaîné reported on the case and thus made Boulin more public interest. On the morning of October 30, 1979, Boulin was found dead in a pond with an empty can of sedatives next to his car and farewell letters to his wife and colleagues in the ministry. Boulin's death was classified as a suicide , but the voices that it was murder never fell silent. After his death, the journalists came under public criticism, complicity of the newspapers was discussed as well as a possible murder of Boulin by the secret service.

In Libourne, a street, a football stadium and a hospital are named after Robert Boulin.

literature

  • Hubert Bonin (Editor): Robert Boulin: itinéraires d'un gaulliste. Bruxelles / Bern / Berlin / Frankfurt / New York / Oxford / Vienna: PIE Lang, 2011. ISBN 978-90-5201-736-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Escape with expenses , Der Spiegel , 29/1962, accessed on April 16, 2012.
  2. Jump up ↑ Streng Punishing , Der Spiegel , 33/1985, accessed April 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Boulin, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French minister
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Villandraut (Gironde)
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1979
Place of death Rambouillet forest (Yvelines)