Alain Savary

Alain Savary ( born April 25, 1918 in Algiers, † February 17, 1988 in Paris) was a French Minister of Education.

In 1940 he joined the Free French forces of France libre and was commissioned by Admiral Muselier with the administration of the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast, whose governor he was until the beginning of 1943. From April 1944 Savary took part in the Italian campaign and shortly afterwards at the landing in Provence. In October, he became a member of the Provisional Konsultativversammlung. In 1946 he became general secretary of the Commissariat of German and Austrian affairs. In the fifties, he was Member of Parliament for Saint- Pierre and Miquelon in the National Assembly until 1959 he aufrückte Deputy Secretary General of the Socialist SFIO. In 1969 he gave the significant impetus for founding the new Socialist Party français. 1973-1981 he was a deputy for Haute -Garonne, before he finally was 1981 Education Minister in the Cabinet Pierre Mauroy on May 22, a post that he held until 19 July 1984. It was on his initiative back the creation of so-called zones d' éducation prioritaires ( ZED ), which should serve the reduction of social inequalities. 1984 came on the issue of freedom of the schools or the Laisierungspolitik in Paris to a large demonstration in which over a million people took part.

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