Thomas Seltz
Thomas Seltz (born December 21, 1872 in Artolsheim , † July 17, 1959 in Vittefleur , Département Seine-Maritime ) was an Alsatian journalist and politician . He was a long-time member of parliament and chairman of the UPR .
biography
After graduating from high school , which he completed with excellent grades, he studied literature and economics at the University of Strasbourg . In 1895 he became editor of the daily newspaper Der Elsässer , which was close to the Alsace-Lorraine Center Party. In 1906 he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He was also involved in a leading position in many Catholic organizations in Alsace.
After Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, he was one of the founding members of the Union populaire républicaine (UPR), the successor organization to the Center Party and the largest party in Alsace in the interwar period . He was installed in the city council of Strasbourg by the occupation authorities . In the chamber elections of November 16, 1919, he ran on the joint list of UPR and PRD , the Bloc national in the Bas-Rhin department . This received 53.2% in the department and won all mandates. Thomas Seltz was elected seventh place in the Chamber of Deputies with 70,246 out of 133,616 . There he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and the Commission for Alsace and Lorraine. In Parliament he was a member of the Entente républicaine démocratique group.
On November 23, 1922 he was elected chairman of the UPR as the successor to Joseph Pfleger . He held this office until October 21, 1928. Successor was Eugène Müller .
In the chamber elections in 1924 he ran again for the Bloc national and was re-elected to fifth place with 65,343 votes. In Parliament he became a member of the Démocrates group and again a member of the Committee on Agriculture. After the change in the electoral law, Seitz stood for the UPR in the Erstein constituency in 1928 and received 9227 votes out of 17,051. The next-placed candidate, Metzger, received just 3,340 votes. As a member of the Démocrates populaires faction , he remained a member of the Committee on Agriculture and became a member of the Drinks Committee and the Committee of the Liberated Areas.
In 1932 Seltz was re-elected in the same constituency. In the second ballot he received 9,249 votes out of 13,380 votes. Once again a member of the Democrates populaires group , he also remained a member of the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Drinks. He was re-elected in the same constituency in 1936 with 8,776 votes out of 17,737. He joined the Indépendants d'action populaire group and remained a member of the Agriculture Committee. A decree of July 1939 extended the mandate in the Chamber of All Deputies during the Second World War until May 31, 1942. On July 10, 1940 he was one of the deputies who voted in Vichy for the constitution and government of Philippe Pétain . After the war, he no longer applied for a mandate.
Politically, Seitz represented moderate autonomist positions. He supported the liberal and conservative forces, in particular President Raymond Poincaré's policies against the left parties.
At the regional level, he was a member of the Conseiller général for the canton of Erstein .
literature
- Jean Jolly (ed.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français. Notices biographiques sur les ministres, sénateurs et députés français from 1889 to 1940 . PUF, Paris 1960-1977.
- Christian Baechler: Le parti catholique alsacien 1890–1939 du Reichsland à la république jacobine . Ophrys, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7080-0516-2 .
- Jean-Claude Delbreil: Centrisme et Démocratie-chrétienne en France. Le Parti democrate populaire des origines au MRP, 1919–1944 . Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 1990.
- Christian Baechler: Seltz, Thomas . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne Faszikel 35, 2000, pp. 3616f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baechler 1982, p. 716.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seltz, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Alsatian editor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Artolsheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1959 |
| Place of death | Vittefleur |