Roger Salengro
Roger Henri Charles Salengro (born May 30, 1890 in Lille , † November 17, 1936 in Lille) was a French politician.
Salengro spent his childhood in Dunkirk until 1904 . He then studied literature at the University of Lille, where he joined the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) and founded a socialist student group. From 1912 he did his military service, where he came on Carnet B , the list of known enemies of the state. He was imprisoned in 1914, from which he was released in 1915 to return to his military unit.
In October 1915, Salengro was taken prisoner of war, from which he returned three years later. He worked as a journalist and was active in the SFIO Nord, for which he was elected to the city council of Lille in 1919. In 1925 he succeeded Gustave Delory as mayor of Lille, and in 1929 and 1935 he was re-elected to this function.
Since 1928 Salengro was a member of the National Assembly , in 1936 he became Interior Minister of Léon Blum's Popular Front . His campaign against the right-wing Action française and the magazine Gringoire led to a smear campaign against him. On July 14, 1936, the opposition politician Henri Becquart brought before the National Assembly the charge that Salengro had deserted in the First World War in 1916. Although a military commission of inquiry refuted the allegation, the allegations persisted. As a result, Salengro committed suicide on the night of November 17-18, 1936.
His funeral took place on November 22nd with great public sympathy. A few months after his death, the threat of punishment for defamation was tightened in the press law. The composer Robert Lannoy composed a piece Mort de Roger Salengro . The film L'Affaire Salengro starring Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu in the leading role was shown on French television in 2009 .
Web links
- Newspaper article about Roger Salengro in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salengro, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salengro, Roger Henri Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, member of the National Assembly, minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lille |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1936 |
| Place of death | Lille |