Daniel Mayer
Daniel Mayer ( born April 29, 1909 in Paris, † 29 December 1996, Orsay, Essonne département ) was a French journalist, politician and member of the Resistance.
Mayer became involved in local issues, when he began to become politically active through the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti at the age of 18 years. In 1927, he joined the Socialist Party SFIO and worked from 1933 to 1939 for their daily Le Populaire, in which he wrote about social issues. As secretary of the 20th section of the Socialist youth he met Cletta Livian, a Jewish Romanian, whom he married.
Although Mayer was a close friend of Léon Blum, he remained in France to Henri Philippe Pétain Armistice on 22 June 1940. He joined the Résistance and founded in January 1941, the Comité d'action Socialiste. Mayer settled in Marseilles, where the support of his wife in the underground, he worked on the newspaper Populaire. Shortly thereafter, he received a further boost by Pierre Brossolette that a bookstore in Paris founded with his wife, who served the Resistance as a cover address. She organized her escape itself Brossolette traveled in April 1942 to London to negotiate with General Charles de Gaulle, who wanted to unite the various Resistance groups under his leadership.
De Gaulle sent Jean Moulin back to France in 1942 to unite the various resistance groups to an organization. Moulin managed alongside Mayer secretly
- Henri Frenay from Combat,
- Emmanuel d' Astier de la Libération Vigeries of the Sud,
- Jean -Pierre Lévy of the Franc- Shooter,
- Charles Tillon,
- Pierre Fabien of the Francs- Tireurs et Partisans and
To meet Charles Delestraint of the Armée Secrète. Jean Moulin managed to unite the eight major Resistance groups to the Conseil National de la Résistance ( CNR). The first joint meeting under chairmanship Moulins was held in Paris on 27 May 1943. During the following year, Mayer worked hard for a united resistance by socialists and communists.
1943 Mayer was appointed General Secretary of the subsoil is located ligand SFIO Socialist Party. In August 1946 he was replaced as followers Léon Blum as Secretary General. Nevertheless, he remained from 1946 to 1949 as Minister of Labour and Social Security Member of the cabinets Blum, Paul Ramadier, Robert Schuman, Marie and Henri Queuille, was a member of the Consultative Assembly, and later the Constituent Assemblies and was in the constituency of Seine from 1946 to April 1958 Member of the National Assembly.
He defended the fledgling Social Security and opposed the European Defence Community EVG, why exclude him his party headed by Guy Mollet from their leadership. For his resistance to the French Algerian policy and its refusal to approve the exceptional rights of governments Maurice Bourgès - Maunoury and Félix Gaillard, he was punished by his party in 1957. He was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly and was very involved for the State of Israel.
Mayer was a member of the minority of the SFIO, which did not agree with the return of General de Gaulle in 1958. He participated in the founding of the Parti Socialiste autonomous PSA, emerged from the 1960, the Socialist Party unifié PSU. In 1967 he left this formation and entered 1970 in the section of Jean- Baptiste Clément of the newly founded Parti Socialiste français in the 18th arrondissement of Paris in Orsay one. Between 1958 and 1975, Mayer was also President of the French League for Human Rights. 1977 to 1983 he was working for the International League for Human Rights. At the suggestion of President François Mitterrand, he was one of 21 February 1983 to February 19, 1986 the Constitutional Council to. Mayer appears today as a socialist of moral rigor.
Lionel Jospin emphasized his courage, his honor and his sense of justice at the funeral.