Sébastien Gegauff

Sebastian Pius Gegauff, 1911

Sebastian Pius Gégauff (. Fr Sébastien ) (* 9. February 1862 in Wittenheim ; † 17th February 1935 ibid) was a farmer and politician.

Sebastian Gegauff attended elementary school and then high school in Mulhouse. In 1876 he moved to a French-speaking school in the Haute-Saône department . After graduating there, he switched to the agricultural school in Rufach in 1878 . After graduation, he worked on his parents' farm.

politics

Sebastian Gegauff was mayor of Wittenheim from 1893 to 1919. He was a member of the District Assembly of Upper Alsace .

He was chairman of the agricultural district association Mülhausen and the agricultural trade association of Upper Alsace, deputy association director of the revision association of agricultural cooperatives, member of the board of the agricultural state central bank for Alsace-Lorraine and the agricultural council of Alsace-Lorraine .

In 1911 he was elected to the first chamber of the Landtag of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine by the Agriculture Council of Alsace-Lorraine (Upper Alsace) . He was a member of the state parliament until 1918.

Because of his pro-French stance, the German authorities distrusted him during the First World War .

After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by France on the basis of the Versailles Treaty , he remained politically active. On January 11, 1920, he was elected as Senator for the Haut-Rhin department in the second ballot . On January 9, 1927, he was re-elected to the Senate, of which he was a member until his death.

Initially, Sebastian Gegauff, who was a Catholic denomination, belonged politically to the Union populaire républicaine . In 1928 he founded his own party, the APNA (action populaire nationale alsacienne).

literature

• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, p. 134

Web links

• French Senate site