Alain Poher

Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher ( born April 17, 1909 in Ablon -sur -Seine, Val- de -Marne, † December 9, 1996 in Paris) was a French politician and as President of the French Senate twice kommissarisches Head of State of France.

Life

Poher went to high school Louis -le- Grand and Saint -Louis in Paris and then studied at the Law Faculty of the Sorbonne, where he passed his state examination ( "Licence " ) in Law and was awarded a diploma of the School of Political Science. He also holds a degree in mining engineering.

On August 19, 1938 he married Henriette Tugler, with whom he had a daughter, Marie- Agnès, the widow of Jean -Pierre Joussain.

Career

As a politician, the Mouvement Populaire Républicain ( MRP), he began his political career in 1939 as a civil servant in the central administration of the Ministry of Finance, where he quickly rises to the Deputy Head of Unit.

On 20 July 1944 he was appointed to the Treasury as President of the Liberation Committee, from 1945, he took over the Department of Social Affairs in the Ministry of Finance. In the same year he was elected Mayor of Ablon -sur -Seine.

In 1946 he was appointed Senior Government and had from June to November held the head of the office of the Finance Minister Robert Schuman, 1948 Director of Government, 1954 Ministerial. As of December, he was a member of the first Council of the Republic, the French Upper House, namely from 1946 to 1948 as rapporteur of the Finance Committee, from 1948 to 1950 as Commissioner General for German and Austrian Affairs and from 1950 to 1952 as a delegate of France and Chairman of the International Authority for the Ruhr in Dusseldorf, from 1952 to 1958 as a member of the common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community and as Chairman of the Transport Committee.

In 1948 he ran for the first time in the Senate elections, 1952 he was Senator of the department of Seine- et- Oise.

1966 to 1969 he was president of the then appointed by the national parliaments European Parliament, called the meeting of the European Communities.

He was elected President of the French Senate in 1968, which he remained until 1992. All elections in the years 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986 and 1989, he won; In 1992, he no longer went to. He designed this body in these 24 years with decisive. According to the French Constitution, the President of the Senate, the President represents, if this is incapacitation or resigns. That was the case in 1969 and 1974 Pohers tenure.

On April 29, 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigned because he had failed his proposal of greater regionalization in a referendum. Poher, who opposes de Gaulle's proposal was not only sitting head of state, but also stepped up to in the subsequent presidential elections on 1 June 1969, scored the first ballot 23.3% of the vote. In the runoff election on June 15, 1969, he was defeated with 41.8 % of the vote against the outgoing Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.

Pompidou died five years later on April 2, 1974 at the office, so Poher was acting head of state again until Valéry Giscard d' Estaing was elected president on May 27, 1974.

Offices

• Honorary Chairman (1980 ) of the cross-party association of the senators who are members of LICRA are ( International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism ).
• Honorary Chairman (1983 ) of the Association of French Mayors.
• Member of the Honorary Committee of the French organization of the European Movement.
• Deputy Chairman of the Association for the study of problems in Europe.
• Member of the Honorary Committee of the European Centre de recherches économiques et commerciales (CEREC, European Centre for Studies in Economics and Commerce ).
• Member of the Commission for international exchange in the local area.
• Member of the Commission for studies on transport in the common market.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Centre européen d'observation par sondage ( CEROS, European center for observation by surveys).
• Member of the Steering Committee of the French Association of the Council of the European communities.
• Member of the Standing Committee of the Supreme Council for Tourism.
• Member of the Council of the Foundation Jean Monnet for Europe.
• Administrator of the Robert Schuman Foundation.
• Founding member of the Association " economy and progress".
• Member of the Honorary Committee of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
• Chairman of the Association for Research and Information on the development assistance ( ARIAD ) and the Association for the common international promotion.

Works

• Trois fois Président ( "Three times President " ), 1993.

Awards

• Knight of the Legion of Honour (1950 )
• Croix de guerre 1939-1945
• Médaille de la Résistance
• Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany (1958 )
• Grand Officer and Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1968 and 1973 )
• Grand Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( 1991)
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Order of Malta
• Grande Médaille de Vermeil of the City of Paris
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Tel Aviv
• B'nai B'rith (1979 )
• Ernst- Reuter- plaque (1988 )
• Louise -Michel Prize ( 1984)