Yvon Delbos

Yvon Delbos (1925)

Yvon Delbos (born May 7, 1885 in Thonac , Dordogne department , † November 15, 1956 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Third and Fourth Republic .

Delbos graduated from the École normal supérieure in Paris with an agrégation in 1907 , but turned to journalism in 1911. In that year he began to work as editor of the newspaper Le Radical , of which he became editor-in-chief in 1914. After the First World War , in which he was wounded twice, he founded the radical socialist newspaper Ère nouvelle in 1919 , which appeared until June 1940. He joined the Parti radical and became its vice-president. 1919 initially unsuccessful in the elections to the National Assembly , he won a seat in parliament for the Dordogne department in 1924, which he held until 1940.

He received his first government post in April 1925 as Undersecretary of State in the Paul Painlevé government , and from October 11 to November 28 of the same year he held the post of Minister of Education for a short time. For eleven years he refused to accept further offices in the government and made numerous trips abroad, including to the Soviet Union , on which he wrote a series of articles that was published in 1933 under the name L'Expérience rouge .

In January 1936, Delbos took over a government post again with the management of the Ministry of Justice under Albert Sarraut . After Léon Blum was appointed Prime Minister in June 1936, Delbos took over the Foreign Ministry, which he headed until March 1938. Before the installation of the Vichy regime he was twice minister of education (September 1939 to March 1940, June 1940). He opposed the armistice, went to North Africa on June 18, 1940 and did not take part in the session of the French National Assembly on July 10, 1940 in Vichy, which gave Philippe Pétain almost unlimited powers. A few weeks later he returned to France. He was captured by the Germans in April 1943 and interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After his liberation, he returned to France on May 7, 1945 in poor health and was elected to the two constituent assemblies in 1945/46, first for the Radical Socialists, then for the Left Republicans, and also to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. From 1947 on he was again involved in several governments as Minister of State from February to November 1947 and Minister of Education from July 26 to September 5, 1948 and September 11, 1948 to July 1950. Delbos ran in the French presidential elections in 1953 , but withdrew his candidacy after the third round, in which he won 225 of 931 votes. In the elections to the French Senate in June 1953, Delbos was able to prevail, took the seat there and thus left the National Assembly. He remained a senator until his death 17 months later.

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• Jean Jolly (ed.): Dictionnaire des Parlamentaires Français, Notices Biographiques sur les Ministres, Sénateurs et Dépués Français de 1889 à 1940 . Paris 1960.
• Benoît Cazenave, Yvon Delbos , in Here Was All Europe , Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004.

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• Newspaper article about Yvon Delbos in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .