Daniel Mayer

Daniel Mayer was born the April 29th 1909 with Paris, died the December 29th 1996, was a French politician.

Biography

Constrained to work as of the exit of communal, it enters in Politique as of the eighteen years age, revolted by the execution Sacco and Vanzetti . Secretary of the 20th section of Socialist Youths, it meets there Cletta Livian, Jewish Rumanian, that it marries. Journalist with the Popular (the daily newspaper founded in 1916 by Jean Longuet) of 1933 with 1939, it is in the Résistance.

He founds as of March 1941 the Socialist Committee of Action and animates the networks of resistant Socialists. General secretary of the Socialist party of 1943 with 1946 and editor association of the Popular clandestine (1942 - 1944). Mayer settles with Marseilles where his wife the assistance in her activity of Résistance; itself organizes escapes. It represents SFIO with the National council of Resistance. It makes reappear clandestinely the Popular in May 1942. Member of the Consultative Assembly then of the two constituent Assemblies, socialist deputy of the the Seine of 1946 at April 1958.

It is Ministre Work and Social security of 1946 with 1949. It defends the young Social security and causes a political crisis by asking a revalorization of the wages. Opposing to C.E.D., it is excluded from the management committee of the SFIO. It is sanctioned by its party in 1957 for its hostility with the French policy in Algérie and its refusal to vote the special capacities with the governments Bourges-Maunoury and Gaillard. He is president of the Commission of the foreign affairs of the National Assembly. Daniel Mayer is very attached to the State of Israel.

Near to Leon Blum, it is eliminated by Guy Mollet as a general secretary from SFIO in 1946 and has difficult relations with its successor. It belongs to the socialist minority which does not approve the return of the Général de Gaulle in 1958 and takes part in the foundation of the Union of the democratic forces then PSA become PSU in 1960, leaves this formation in 1967 and returns to the PS in 1970 to the section Jean-Baptiste Clément in the 18th district then in Orsay.

He resigns of his function of deputy in 1958 to chair the Ligue of the Human rights (of which he has been member for his 18 years) until in 1975, then the International federation of the Human rights of 1977 with 1983.

Named by François Mitterrand, it chairs the Constitutional council February 21st 1983 the February 19th 1986, date on which it is replaced by Robert Badinter. There remains member of this council until the February 25th 1992. He writes that the " law expresses the general will only in the respect of Constitution".

Daniel Mayer seems a Socialist of a great moral rigor. At the time of its death, Lionel Jospin raised that " in its political commitment, it chose courage, the honor and the justice". It made gift of its body to science, like his wife died in 1976.

Governmental functions

Minister for Labor and Social security of the Government Leon Blum (3) (from December 16th, 1946 to January 22nd, 1947)
Minister for Labor and Social security of the Government Paul Ramadier (1) (from May 9th to October 22nd, 1947)
Minister for the social Affairs and the War veterans of the Government Paul Ramadier (2) (from October 22nd to November 24th, 1947)
Minister for Labor and Social security of the Government Robert Schuman (1) (from November 24th, 1947 to July 26th, 1948)
Minister for Labor and Social security of the Government Andre Marie (from July 26th to September 5th, 1948)
Minister for Labor and Social security of the Government Robert Schuman (2) (from September 5th to 11th 1948)
Minister for Labor and Social security of the Government Henri Queuille (1) (from September 11th, 1948 to October 28th, 1949)

Publications

Socialism: human right with happiness , ED. Flammarion
Socialists in Resistance , P.U.F., 1986

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