Roger Devemy

Roger Devemy (born July 28, 1910 in Thiant , Département Nord , † August 4, 1998 in Sanary-sur-Mer ) was a French politician . From 1945 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1962 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life and resistance

Devemy was born into a working class family in 1910 and worked as a teacher after high school and university. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he was drafted and joined the Resistance in 1941 after the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht . In January 1944 he was arrested for this by the Gestapo and held in the Royallieu concentration camp . He returned from captivity as an invalid and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his services during the war and accepted into the Legion of Honor .

Political career

Shortly after the end of the war, Devemy joined the Gaullist Mouvement républicain populaire in the Saône-et-Loire department and was elected to the first constituent national assembly in this department in 1945. Both in June 1946 in the elections to the second constituent parliament and in the first regular elections in October 1946, he was confirmed as a member. He succeeded again in 1951. Due to a move to Nancy , Devemy ran in January 1956 in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department , to which Nancy is one. There he could not repeat his good results from his old homeland and accordingly left parliament. However, he succeeded in the following parliamentary elections in 1958, which were the first of the Fifth Republic , one more time in the National Assembly. He represented the Meurthe-et-Moselle department until 1962.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr