Andre François-Poncet

Andre François-Poncet , born the June 13rd 1887 with Layered branches (Seine-et-Marne) and dead the January 8th 1978 with Paris, is a man Politique and Diplomate French.

Biography

Former student of the National university, aggregate of German, it begins his career in journalism then is used during the First World War as lieutenant as infantry.

He is elected appointed of the Seine in 1924. Of tendency center-right, it enters to the government as under-secretary of State in 1928. He is then ambassador with Berlin of 1931 with 1938, then with Rome.

In March 1936, little time before the occupation of left bank of the Rhine, it warns the government of Albert Sarraut against the project of Adolf Hitler to try a takeover by force. In 1938, after Munich, the President of the Council Daladier names it in Rome in the hope, rather vain, to move away Italy from Reich.

Under the Occupation, it is stopped by the Gestapo with Albert Lebrun and spends three years in captivity. In 1949, he becomes German Haut-Commissaire (: “ Hochkommisar ”) of the French Republic in Germany, then ambassador with Bonn until in 1955. In 1952, it is elected with the French Academy with the seat of the marshal Pétain.

Of 1955 with 1967, he is vice-president, then president of the French Croix-Rouge. He was also President of the Standing committee of the international Red Cross (today: international Movement of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent) of 1948 to 1965. He is the father of the politician Jean François-Poncet.

Governmental functions

Under-secretary of State to the Technical education and the Art schools from November 13rd, 1928 to July 27th, 1929 in the Government Raymond Poincaré (5)
Under-secretary of State to the Technical education and the Art schools from July 29th, 1929 to November 3rd, 1929 in the Government Aristide Briand (11)
Under-secretary of State to the Art schools from November 3rd, 1929 to February 21st, 1930 in the Government Andre Tardieu (1)
Under-secretary of State to the Nation's economy from March 2nd, 1930 to December 13rd, 1930 in the Government Andre Tardieu (2)
Under-secretary of State to the Nation's economy from January 27th, 1931 to June 13rd, 1931 in the Government Pierre Laval (1)
Under-secretary ofState with the Nation's economy from June 13rd, 1931 to September 3rd, 1931 in the Government Pierre Laval (2)

Publications

Memories of an Embassy at Berlin , Flammarion, Paris, 1947
Monthly returns of Andre François-Poncet, French High commissioner in Germany: 1945-1955: beginnings of the Federal Republic of Germany , 2 vol., HMSO, Paris, 1996

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