André Siegfried

André Siegfried (* April 21, 1875 in Le Havre, † March 28, 1959 in Paris) was a French sociologist, geographer, economist and writer and member of the Legion of Honour.

Life

André Siegfried came from an old Protestant family of Alsace. He studied in Paris at the École libre des sciences politiques ( free university of political science ) and taught there from 1911 itself. André Siegfried worked in the fields of history, humanities and law ( in this discipline, he obtained a second doctorate ). In the main, it was research that made ​​him famous in the French scientists.

As a French economist André Siegfried was appointed in 1932 to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He made policy research on the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, the election sociology and France. In 1944 he was elected to the Académie française, armchair 29.

On 1 June 1947 he founded, inter alia, with René Courtin, Paul Reynaud, Paul Ramadier and Pierre -Henri Teitgen the Conseil francais pour l'Europe unie, an association of Christian Democrats, who from 1965 onwards the names of the Union européenne démocrates - chrétiens (European Union of Christian Democrats ) wore. From this it finally arose the European People's Party, currently the largest party voters at European level.

Publications

• Tableau politique de la France de l' ouest sous la troisième République, 102 Cartes et Croquis, 1 carte hors- texte. A. Colin, Paris, 1913. Facsimile printing by Slatkine Reprints / A. Colin, Geneva / Paris / Gex 1980, ISBN 2-05-100100-6.
• Mes souvenirs de la IIIe République: Mon père et son temps from 1836 to 1922. Éditions du Grand Siècle, Paris, 1946.