Roger Joseph Foret

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Roger Foret 1911

Roger Joseph Foret (written as Forêt in French sources, but autographed Foret) (born October 1, 1870 in Vaxy , † January 8, 1943 in Metz ) was Mayor of Metz and member of the state parliament.

Roger Joseph Foret attended high schools in Saarburg and Metz and then studied law in Strasbourg and Freiburg im Breisgau . At his study places he became a member of Catholic student associations of the KV , in Strasbourg near the Frankonia and in Freiburg in the Brisgovia. After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer in Metz from March 1, 1900. There he was a member of the local council from 1902 to 1908 and mayor from February 28, 1911 to November 1918.

In the Reichstag election in 1907 , he lost with 12,693 votes just against Albert Grégoire (12,919 votes) the election in the constituency of Alsace-Lorraine 14 (Metz).

He was appointed a member of the first chamber of the state parliament , to which he belonged from 1911 to 1918.

After Alsace-Lorraine became French again in 1918, he became a member of the Souvenir Français as a supporter of Alsace's membership in Germany . Foret remained a member of the KV until the dissolution of the KV by National Socialism. In 1928 he was the defender of the autonomist defendants in the so-called conspiracy trial of Colmar . After the occupation by German troops in 1940, Foret symbolically handed over the keys to the city of Metz to the Germans. Foret died in Metz in 1943 before Metz was liberated by the Americans in November 1944.

literature

  • Hermann Hiery : Reichstag elections in the Reichsland. A contribution to the regional history of Alsace-Lorraine and the electoral history of the German Empire 1871–1918 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. 80). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5132-7 , p. 342, (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1984).

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wolfgang Löhr in: Academic monthly sheets . 2014, p. 324.
  2. ^ Statistical yearbook for Alsace-Lorraine. Vol. 3, 1909, ZDB -ID 217972-6 , p. 276.