Jean Bichelonne (born with Bordeaux in 1904, deceased with the private clinic S of Hohenlychen on December 22nd, 1944) was a Technocrate and Politician French, Minister for the Vichy government (1942 - 1944) and in favor of the collaboration with the Nazi Germany.

Resulting from a modest milieu, receipt first with the entrance examination of the Polytechnic school and thereafter shining high-civil servant who passed for the head best made of his time, Jean Bichelonne was in 1939 principal private secretary of the Minister for the armament Raoul Dautry. For this reason, it makes transport to Great Britain the stock of heavy Eau so that it does not fall to the hands from the Germans

Under the Vichy government, it is representative of the young people and brilliant technocrats interventionists obsessed by the modernization of the countries sometimes indicated by the generic name of Synarchie. Initially General secretary Commercial and Industry in the ministry for the Industrial production, It is named on April 18th 1942 Secretary of State to the Industrial production, with the rank of minister as from November. It is for this reason that there plays a key function in the industrial Collaboration with the III {{E}} Reich, and remains closely associated with the implementation with the Service with Obligatory Work (STO) which in hardly a year sent of force: 640000 young people to work in Germany in the industry of war of the occupant. He got along then with his counterpart Albert Speer, like him technocrat amoral and very effective with the vast dreams modernisateurs, to carry out in France even the industrial production intended for Reich and to thus integrate the French economy in a vast European era under domination Nazi (Speer-Bichelonne agreements, September 15th, 1943). Of him, Speer wrote: " both, we were young, we believed to have the future in front of us and we promised ourselves to currently avoid in the future the errors made by the generation with the capacity in this world period of war "

He starting from April 24th, 1942 assumed the ministry for the Industrial production and the Ministry of Labor as from November 1943 to replace Hubert Lagardelle. He was also in load of the Transport S and the Communications. Arranged side of the ultra Collaborationnistes, he flees with Sigmaringen with the Libération. The completely crushed knee, it benefits from its presence in Germany to go to the hospital S of Hohenlychen, close to Berlin to be neat, but dies there in December 1944, probably assassinated by old S.