Gaston Defferre
Gaston Paul Charles Defferre ( born September 14, 1910 in Marsillargues, Hérault; † 7 May 1986 as Marseille) was a French politician of the Socialist Party.
Biography
Defferre comes from a small middle-class Protestant family. In 1928 he settled in Dakar. After studying economics and law in Aix -en- Provence, he became a lawyer in 1931 the Bar Association of Marseille, in 1933, he joined the SFIO was supporters of the Popular Front and militant socialist.
In 1940 he was one of the first Socialist Resistance members in the created by Daniel Mayer Comité d'action Socialiste (CAS). In close vicinity of the network of Brutus Sudreau Pierre and André Boyer, he received the combat name Lieutenant Colonel Danver. He went into the ground, than the German occupiers "free, unoccupied zone " of France moved to the November 12, 1942. They created a network in Toulouse, Lyon and in the department of Lot.
On September 15, 1944 Defferre de Gaulle received after the Liberation ( Liberation ) in front of the town hall of Marseille.
Between 1953 and 1986 he was a socialist mayor of Marseille (33 years, a record ), which earned him the nickname King of Canebière.
In 1969 he was presidential candidate of the SFIO ( become, in the case of choice in tandem with Pierre Mendès -France from the Parti Socialiste radical, the Prime Minister would be ), but he was already in the first round on June 1, 1969, destroying 5.0% of the three candidate Georges Pompidou, Alain Poher and Jacques Duclos defeated. During the first term of President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984 he was Minister of the Interior.
He is mainly known for his many years of experience as mayor of Marseille as well as the author of the law on decentralization at the beginning of 1980. He was also the director of the newspaper Le Provençal.
His widow is the writer Edmonde Charles -Roux.
Trivia
On April 21, 1967 contributed Defferre and the Gaullist deputy René Ribière in the park of a villa in Neuilly, near Paris, the last official duel in France with the Degenaus. Defferre had insulted as idiots during a meeting of the French National Assembly Ribière. Ribière had called it out to restore his honor in a duel. As Ribieres Sekundant acted later right-wing populist Jean -Marie Le Pen The duel lasted only a few moments when Defferre his opponent quickly taught a bleeding wound on his sword- leading arm.
Political mandates
- Socialist deputy of Bouches -du -Rhône (1945 - 1958)
- Mayor of Marseille (1944 - 1945 and 1953 - 1986)
- Secretary of State for information of 26 January to 24 June 1946 at the Cabinet Félix Gouin
- Under Secretary of State for the French overseas territories of 16 December 1946 to 22 January 1947 cabinet Léon Blum
- Merchant Marine Minister on 12 July 1950 to 11 August 1951 at the Cabinet René Pleven and Henri Queuille
- Minister of the French overseas territories from 1 February 1956 to 13 June 1957 at the Cabinet Guy Mollet
- Socialist Senator from 1959 to 1962
- Socialist deputy of the National Assembly since 1962 and leader of the SFIO
- Home Secretary and Minister for the decentralization of 21 May 1981 to 17 July 1984 Cabinet Pierre Mauroy
- Minister of State responsible for the plan and the reorganization of the territory of July 17, 1984 to March 20, 1986 in the Cabinet Laurent Fabius