Henri Queuille

Henri Queuille ( born March 31, 1884 in Neuvic d' Ussel (Corrèze ), † 15 June 1970 in Paris) was a French politician of the Radical Party.

Biography

After studying medicine in Paris, Henri Queuille made ​​in 1908 as a general practitioner in Neuvic down. In 1912 he was elected mayor of Neuvic, 1913 as a member of the General Council of the department of Corrèze of the Canton Neuvic and 1914 as a deputy in the National Assembly. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was staff physician at the hospital of Baccarat. He participated in the battles of Verdun and the Somme and was awarded in September 1916, the Croix de Guerre.

Until 1935 he represented the Correze in the National Assembly, then to 1940 in the Senate. Between 1924 and 1940 he was several times Secretary of State or Minister in the Ministries of Agriculture, Health, Posts and Telecommunications and Public Works. In the latter position, he led the (albeit already previously decided ) by nationalization of the railways and the creation of the national railway company SNCF.

As a senator, he participated in the July 10, 1940 participated in the joint session of the National Assembly and Senate in Vichy, where he refused the transfer of extraordinary powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain his consent. He retired then after Neuvic, where he founded a company for the production of gas from charcoal.

On July 16, 1941, deposed by his mayoralty Neuvic. After a first unsuccessful attempt, he succeeded in April 1943 on board an aircraft of the Royal Air Force to leave for London, where he joined the government in exile of Charles de Gaulle joined. A few days after his arrival he called in the BBC, the French peasants to resist.

In June 1944 he was Minister of State in the first Provisional Government and Deputy de Gaulle. As he sought the restoration of republican institutions, Henri Queuille devoted in the months after the liberation of France, the reconstruction of the Radical Party, which had suffered greatly from war and occupation. From 1946 to 1956 he was again a deputy in the National Assembly. In parallel, he has held the following government offices:

  • Prime Minister ( 1948-49, 1950, 1951)
  • Deputy Prime Minister ( 1949-50, 1952-54 )
  • Minister of State (1948 and 1951-52 )
  • Minister for Public Works (1948 )
  • Minister of Finance ( 1948-49 ), at the same time Prime Minister
  • Minister of the Interior ( 1950-51 )

During his reign, France signed the NATO treaty.

For health reasons, ended Henri Queuille his government career mid-1950s and also declined a candidacy for the office of president, succeeding Vincent Auriol.

In 1956, Henri Queuille fell out with Pierre Mendès -France and founded with the right wing of the Radical Party, the Centre républicain.

Importance

Although he was quite popular as a politician, Henri Queuille is regarded as a symbolic figure for the loss of reputation and the failure of the Fourth Republic. Consistent results of his policies are the SNCF and its contribution to the mechanization of agriculture.

He was the political godfather of two eminent politicians who faced each other in the Fifth Republic again and again as an opponent in 1946, he recommended François Mitterrand as a candidate for the National Assembly in the department of Nièvre, 1965, he hit Jacques Chirac, the parliamentary seat in his former constituency of Corrèze to strive for.

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