Jean Mattéoli
Jean Mattéoli ( born December 20, 1922 in Montchanin, Saône -et -Loire, † January 27, 2008 in Paris) was a French politician.
Biography
After a degree in law in Dijon Mattéoli joins the network to the priest Félix Kir in the Resistance. In 1944 he was arrested and initially deported to the concentration camp Neuengamme and later in that of Mauthausen. After the end of the war he first worked in the political administration of the Bourgogne and Franche- Comté. In 1946 he transferred to the French occupation zone of Germany and employees of the General Manager's Émile Laffon.
As Laffon is president of the major regional coal mining company Houillères du Nord et du Pas -de -Calais, Jean Mattéoli follows him. From 1948 to 1968 he is responsible for overseas relations and social affairs. In that time, he developed an interest in social issues and acquires personal confidence in the unions. In October 1968, the office of Commissioner is vacant for industrial renewal in the northern French region, it is this benefit. 1973 - 1979 he has been President of total French coal mining company Charbonnages de France.
In addition to his industrial career, Mattéoli involved in politics. First member of the party linksgaullistischen front travailliste, it is 1971 Member of the Central Committee of the Gaullist UDR and later a member of the Secretariat of the bourgeois RPR. 1983 to 1987 he has been a Conseiller de Paris in charge of Trade and Industry Advisor to the Mayor Jacques Chirac. From 1983 to 1986 he has been the Council of Ile- de -France region.
On 8 November 1979 he became Minister of Labour and participation in the cabinet of Raymond Barre. As he falls ill shortly afterwards from a heart condition, he can only take his work in late January 1980. His goals as a minister he tried conciliatory and enforce consensus with the unions. He achieved an employment pact for youth and is committed to part-time work. With its goal of expanding the participation, however, he fails the resistance both from the right and from the left-wing political camp.
From 1985 to 1990 he has Président - directeur général of the Alsatian wire and cable works Tréfilerie et Câblerie d'Alsace. In 1987 he was elected President of the Conseil économique et social ( CES), the French National Council for Economic and Social Affairs. He was re-elected three times. In the French railway strike of 1995, he entrusted the role of mediator. In 1999, he refuses to run for a fifth term as president of the CES; He is then elected by acclamation as honorary president.
Throughout his life, Jean Mattéoli committed against anti-Semitism. In 1997, he directs the commission to investigate the robbery of Jewish property in France during the Nazi era. Nevertheless, he says the trial of Maurice Papon in February 1988 in favor of the accused from - although the National Federation of deportees and internees of the Resistance, whose honorary president he is as civil plaintiffs occurs in that process.
Awards
Jean Mattéoli was honored with the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. In 1998 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.