Roger Dusseaulx

Roger Armand Dusseaulx (born July 18, 1913 in 12th Arrondissement , Paris , † May 28, 1988 in Rosay-sur-Lieure , Département Eure ) was a French politician of the Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP), the Union pour la Nouvelle République ( UNR) and most recently the Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR), which was among other things a member of the National Assembly and, in 1962, Minister Assistant to the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament and subsequently Minister for Public Works and Transport.

Life

Fourth republic

Resistance fighter and member of the Provisional National Assembly

Dusseaulx, who came from a family of craftsmen from the 12th arrondissement of Paris , initially worked as an agricultural engineer after completing school and university studies, but then worked as an insurance broker and legal advisor. During the Second World War he was involved in the resistance movement against the German occupation forces and was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance for his work.

On October 21, 1945 Dusseaulx was elected a member of the National Assembly for the Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP) founded by Georges Bidault in 1944 and was a member of the National Assembly as a representative of the Seine-Inférieure department until July 26, 1951. The National Assembly existed from October 21, 1945 to November 27, 1946 as a provisional constituent national assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante) , whose first legislative period ran until June 10, 1946. In this first term he was a member of the Economic Committee (Commission des affaires économiques) and the Press Committee (Commission de la presse) . In the second legislative period of the Constituent National Assembly in 1946, he became a member of the Finance Committee (Commission des finances) and of the current Committee on Economy, Customs and Trade Conditions (Commission des affaires économiques, des douanes et des conventions commerciales) on June 2, 1946 .

Member of the National Assembly

After the election to the first National Assembly, he was again a member of the Finance Committee on November 10, 1946, and became its secretary in 1950. In the election of July 26, 1951, Dusseaulx suffered a narrow defeat after a decision of the electoral commission discussed intensively in parliament, so that he lost his mandate in the National Assembly and Jean Lecanuet became a member of the National Assembly instead. Instead, as compensation, he became a member of the parliamentary representation of the Union française on July 12, 1952 , which represented the interests of the overseas territories and the colonies that were still in existence at the time . He was a member of this assembly until it was dissolved when the Fifth Republic was founded on October 4, 1958. During this time he was chairman of the economic committee of that meeting between 1954 and 1958.

Fifth Republic

Member of Parliament, State Secretary and Minister

Subsequently, Dusseaulx was elected in the elections of November 23 and 30, 1958 in the constituency of the Seine-Maritime No. 1 constituency of the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, of which he was a member until May 15, 1962. He joined the parliamentary group of the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) and became a member of the Committee on Finance, General Economics and Planning (Commission des finances, de l'économie générale et du Plan) . At the same time he was Vice Mayor of Rouen from March 1959 to 1965 . In addition, he was from July 8, 1959 to March 16, 1961 a member of the Senate of the Communauté française, which emerged from the Union française , and until January 1960 was a member of its management committee for aid funds and cooperation.

In the spring of 1961 he replaced Jacques Richard as Secretary General of the UNR and held this partisan function until he was replaced by Louis Terrenoire in May 1962. As the successor to Georges Jonquais of the Parti communiste français (PCF), he also became a member of the General Council of the Département Seine-Maritime and represented in this until his defeat in the 1967 elections against the PCF candidate Jean Malvasio, the canton of Rouen-4 .

On April 15, 1962, Dusseaulx took over his first government office, namely as Assistant Minister at the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament (Ministre délégué auprès du Premier ministre pour les relations avec le Parlement) in the first Pompidou cabinet . He held this position until May 16, 1962 and then took over the post of Minister for Public Works and Transport (Ministre des travaux publics et des transports) , which he held until November 28, 1962, as part of a cabinet reshuffle from Robert Buron .

Re-elections to the National Assembly

Elections 1962

In the elections of November 25, 1962, Dusseaulx was re-elected to the national assembly on November 25, 1962 for the joint list of the UNR-UDT and represented the Seine-Maritime department in this until April 1, 1973 .

After he was not appointed to a government office, he became chairman of the UNR-UDT faction in the National Assembly in December 1962 and remained in this position until he was replaced by Henri Rey in April 1963. He was also in the second legislative period from December 1962 to January 1963 member of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation and General Administration of the Republic (Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de la législation et de l'administration générale de la République) and then until May 1963 of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères ) before he was a member of the Committee on Production and Trade (Commission de la Production et des échanges) from April 1964 to June 1965 . After a renewed membership in the Foreign Affairs Committee between June 1965 and April 1966, he was again a member of the Committee for Finance, General Economics and Planning in April 1966.

Elections in 1967 and 1968 and electoral defeat in 1973

Dusseaulx was re-elected to the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) on March 12, 1967 as a member of the National Assembly and was a member of the Committee on Culture, Families and Social Affairs (Commission des affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales) during the third legislative term. on.

After the early dissolution of the National Assembly due to the unrest in May 1968 , he ran for the Union pour la défense de la République (UDR) in the elections on June 23, 1968 and was 41 in the first ballot in the constituency of the Seine-Maritime department .3 percent of the vote ahead of Jean Lecanuet (26.2 percent) and the PCF candidate, Victor Blot (23.9 percent). In the second ballot on June 30, 1968, he was able to clearly prevail against Blot with 63.5 percent. After the constitution of the National Assembly, he was again a member of the Committee for Finance, General Economics and Planning in the fourth legislative period between 1968 and 1973. In April 1971 he was also appointed a member of the Supreme Council for Higher Education and Research (Conseil supérieur de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche) .

In the 1973 elections, Dusseaulx ran again in the constituency of the Seine-Maritime no.1 district . In the first ballot on March 4, 1973, he was with 24.2 percent of the vote, however, behind Jean Lecanuet, who received 36.3 percent, while the PCF candidate Victor Blot was again third. He then renounced a candidacy in the second ballot on March 11, 1973, which Lecanuet was able to win with 62.2 percent of the votes before Blot.

Thereupon Dusseaulx initially withdrew largely from political life before he was appointed a member of the Economic and Social Council of the Haute-Normandie region in December 1979 . He committed suicide on May 28, 1988 .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Entry in rulers.org
• France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ancien sénateur de la Communauté on the website of the Senate
2. ↑ Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
3. ↑ In the National Assembly he belonged from March 12, 1967 to May 30, 1968 to the group of the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) and from June 30, 1968 to April 1, 1973 of the Union pour la défense de la République or the Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR), which emerged in 1971 .