Georges SpÃ©nale

Georges Spénale ( born November 29, 1913 † 20 August 1983) was a French politician of the Socialist Party. He was the last French High Commissioner of Togo before independence in 1960 and 1975 to 1977 President of the European Parliament.

Study and work in the colonial administration

Spénale earned a university degree ( licentiate ) in law at the École Nationale de la France d' Outre- Mer and suggested following a career in the French colonial administration a. He had from 1938 to 1939 in French Guinea His first job. With the beginning of World War II, he fought until 1941 in the French armed forces. From 1941 to 1942 he was District Officer in Upper Volta and 1942-1943 labor inspector in the Ivory Coast. Then he struggled to 1945 in the war. 1946 and 1948 he worked as a private secretary for French Equatorial Africa. 1949 and 1950 he was head of the information service in the Ivory Coast. 1951 and 1953 he was private secretary of Cameroon and subsequently Secretary-General of the colony. In 1954 he was High Commissioner of Cameroon and 1955 deputy head of the political department of the French overseas territories. In 1956 he was briefly governor in the French overseas territories. 1956 and 1957 he worked as Kabinettsdirekor for Overseas Territories under Prime Gaston Defferre. From 1957 until independence in 1960, he worked as a French High Commissioner in Togo.

Political career in France and in Europe

Between 1962 and 1973, was Spénale Member of Parliament for the constituency of Tarn and a member of its Finance Committee. In 1964 he was also elected to the General Council of the department of Tarn and the same year also a member of the European Parliament. In 1973 he was elected to the Regional Council of Midi -Pyrénées region, and in 1975 vice-president of the Regional Council. In 1974 he rose to the European Parliament on Group Chairman of the Socialist Group and in 1975 President of the Parliament. He held until 1977 this office. In 1979 he resigned from the European Parliament and became a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 1979 and 1982 he was also Vice- President of the Parliamentary Assembly.

MEP for France before 1979
President of the European Parliament
PS Member ( France)
Frenchman
Born in 1913
Died in 1983
Man

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