Maurice Schumann

Maurice Schumann ( born April 10, 1911 in Paris, † February 9, 1998 ) was a French politician.

Life

He first worked as a journalist. After the beginning of World War II, he volunteered for the army. He served as a liaison officer to the British army. After the fall of France he escaped prisoner of war, and sat down in June 1940 in London by Charles de Gaulle in conjunction. Schumann kept a daily speech in the BBC. He urged the French for resistance and was named the voice of Free France. Later, Schumann was the official spokesman for the French government in exile. He learned one of the first Frenchmen of the invasion of France, in which he participated as a captain.

After the war, he participated in the founding of the Catholic People's Republican Movement ( MRP). 1949 Schumann was appointed to the Consultative Assembly. 1950 to 1973 he was a member of the Département du Nord the National Assembly. 1950 and 1953 he represented France at the UN.

1951 to 1954 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1959 to April 1962 and from December 1962 to March 1967 he was Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.

In April 1962 he was Minister of Development. He resigned on May 16, 1962 in protest against the European policy of de Gaulle. In April 1967 he was Minister of State for Science, Atomic and Space and then Minister of State for Social Affairs. As of June 1969, he was Secretary of State. After he had lost his seat in the National Assembly after the election in March 1973, he resigned as foreign minister.

In September 1974, he was elected to the Senate and added to the Académie française on March 7, 1974. He was also a Knight of the Legion of Honour and recipient of the Ordre de la Libération.