Marcel-Edmond Naegelen

Marcel-Edmond Naegelen was born the January 17th 1892 with Belfort and is deceased the April 15th 1978 with Paris. French politician. He was appointed socialist, Minister and general governor of the Algérie.

Biography

Wire of a baker, Marcel-Edmond Naegelen makes his studies with the college of Belfort, then with the National university of Saint-Cloud. He adheres to SFIO in 1909 or 1910. He is mobilized during the First World War, and several times decorated (see below). In 1919, he becomes professor of letters to the Teacher training school teachers of Strasbourg.

In 1925, it is elected city council man, and constantly re-elected until 1940. He becomes general adviser in 1937. He is assistant of the mayor of 1925 to 1929, then of 1935 to 1940. He fails becoming on the other hand appointed.

In 1940, it directs the evacuation of the population of Strasbourg towards the the Dordogne, then engages in the Résistance (network Combat). With the Release, he is president of the High Court of justice in 1944. Assistant of the mayor of Strasbourg, it was elected appointed socialist of the the Low-Rhine in 1945. From 1946 to 1948, it is Minister for State education. It reorganizes the Superior council of State education and the Comédie-Française. It creates the technical series of the baccalaureat. Under its authority the Plan Langevin-Walloon is published which poses the principle of the single school and the equality in front of teaching.

From 1944 to 1947, he is member of the management committee of the SFIO. From 1948 to 1951, he is general governor of the Algérie. Naegelen “did not know Algeria and nothing indicated it for this task”. He seeks without success to reconcile the positions of the nationalists and the colonists. He is impotent vis-a-vis the massive electoral fraud organized by the colonists and the local government, at the time of the elections of 1948. In October 1949, it sends a circular to the police force (police force, gendarmerie, penitentiary staff) recalling that the Torture and the maltreatment were proscribed by the law. This instruction hardly has effects. More generally, Marcel-Edmond Naegelen encounters a strong hostility of the police officers of Algeria. Discovering that the elections of 1951 were also faked, he prefers to give his resignation.

He returned to Metropolitan France and represented the the Low-Alps with the National Assembly of 1951 to 1958. He represents the French National Assembly with UNESCO. In 1953, he was left-wing candidate to the presidency of the Republic, initially opposed to Joseph Laniel, he joins together with thirteenth and the last turn 328 votes against 477 with Rene Coty. In 1954, he refused the station of general resident to the Morocco.

In 1956, it gives an opinion for French Algeria, but, the following year, decides for motion Defferre, favorable to a negotiation with the Algerian nationalists.

Beaten with the legislative elections of 1958, it withdraws political life.

In 1964, it receives the Clovis-Hugues price for his poem the Immortal hope .

He was member of the colonial Academy of Science.

Governmental functions

Decorations

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