Victor Chazelas

Victor Chazelas (born April 23, 1885 in Bussière-Galant , Haute-Vienne , † December 29, 1953 in Nice ; full name: Jean Baptiste Victor Chazelas ) was a French colonial official. He was governor of Mauritania and Niger .

Life

Victor Chazelas was the son of innkeepers Eusèbe and Marguerite Chazelas. In 1906/1907 he served as a soldier in the 63rd Infantry Regiment. In 1912 his professional career began in the French colonial administration. In 1914 he became head of cabinet to the governor of Martinique . During the First World War , Chazelas fought as a second lieutenant in the 63rd Infantry Regiment from 1915 onwards against the German Reich . In August 1916 he was transferred to Cameroon and from August 1918 to March 1919 he was a member of the Armée française d'Orient . After leaving the army, Chazelas returned to Cameroon in June 1919. There he worked as a district leader; from 1919 in Douala , from 1922 in Ebolowa and from 1925 in Kribi . For the Paris colonial exhibition of 1931 he wrote the book Territoires africains sous mandat de la France: Cameroun et Togo . Chazelas took over from August to November 1934 and again from April to November 1935 interim as governor of the colony of Mauritania. From April 1938 to February 1939 he served as governor of the colony of Niger on an interim basis. When Félix Éboué , the governor of the colony of Chad , submitted to the exile government of Charles de Gaulle in 1940 , the Vichy regime tried to replace Éboué with Victor Chazelas as governor of Chad - but without success.

Honors

• Knight of the Legion of Honor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} CHAZELAS Jean Baptiste Victor . Archives nationales website , accessed January 8, 2013.
2. ↑ Territoires africains sous mandat de la France: Cameroun et Togo in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on January 8, 2013.
3. ^ Brian Weinstein: Éboué . Oxford University Press, New York / London / Toronto 1972, ISBN 0-19-501466-9 , p. 247.