Ludovic Trarieux

Ludovic Trarieux ( born November 30, 1840 in Aubeterre -sur -Dronne, † March 13, 1904 in Paris) was a French politician and founder of the French League for Human Rights.

Life

Ludovic Trarieux studied law and worked as a lawyer. He was elected in 1877 to the President of the Bar of Bordeaux. He was from January 26 to November 1, 1895 Minister of Justice of the Third French Republic. Trarieux played in the Dreyfus affair a minor role. Auguste Scheurer -Kestner He pointed, the Vice-President of the French Senate, which, after a conversation with Mathieu Dreyfus in the case of the condemned as a traitor Alfred Dreyfus interested, there are inconsistencies in the course of court-martial proceedings in that State. Scheurer -Kestner came during the year 1897 to believe that Dreyfus had been wrongly convicted. On December 7, 1897 put Scheurer -Kestner, in a speech before the Senate out the reasons why Dreyfusens conviction was a miscarriage of justice. Trarieux was the only senator who agreed the arguments Scheurer - Kestner. He pointed out that it did not constitute an attack on the army if after problems an application for rectification shall put forward. Félix Jules Méline other hand, emphasized before the Senate, that there is no Dreyfus Affair.

Under the impact of the Dreyfus affair Trarieux founded the League for Human Rights, whose first president he was. He held until 1903 this office. The Dreyfus affair ended in 1899 in a second conviction of Alfred Dreyfus in a second court martial. He was pardoned shortly thereafter. Trarieux campaigned until his death for the rehabilitation of Dreyfus. However, this was only in 1906, two years after Trarieux ' death.

After Trarieux the International Ludovic- Trarieux Human Rights Award is named.