Jean Berthoin

Jean Berthoin is a French high-civil servant and politician. Born the January 12th 1895 with Enghien-the-Baths (Seine-et-Oise, auj. Val-d'Oise), it is deceased the February 25th 1979 in Paris.

Biography

He is successively sub-prefect of Nérac and Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) then of Narbonne (Aude) of 1922 to 1928, then prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne in 1932, of the Marne in 1936. He is director of the National security in 1934 at the time of the assassinations of king Alexandre of Yugoslavia and the Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseilles. He is general secretary of the ministry for the Interior, function of which he resigns in 1940. He enters then the Résistance and is member of the departmental committee of Release of the Isere.

He is general payer of the the Seine in the years of post-war period.

Radical socialist, he is member of the Conseil of the Republic of 1948 to 1958 then senator of the Isere of 1959 to 1974, registered with the group of the democratic Left.

Governmental functions

Secretary of State inside the Government Henri Queuille (2) (from July 2nd to 12th 1950)
Minister for State education of the Government Pierre Mendès France (from June 19th, 1954 to February 23rd, 1955)
Minister for the State education of the Government Edgar Faure (2) (from February 23rd, 1955 to February 1st, 1956)
Minister for the State education of the Government Charles de Gaulle (3) (from June 1st to January 8th, 1959)
Minister of Interior Department of the Government Michel Debré (from January 8th, 1959 to May 27th, 1959)

To the State education, it proceeds in particular to the reform of the single colleges and founds the compulsory schooling until the sixteen years age.

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