Michel de Pontbriand (March 30th, 1911 - August 28th, 2000) was resistant and a French politician.
Biography
Entry in political life and Resistance
He was requested on April 20th, 1941 by Mr. Leneil to help it in his task of mayor of Erbray. And it is quite naturally that it took its succession the October 19th 1941, at the request of the municipal council of this city.Resisting, member of the network Buckmaster-Oscar, it did not hesitate to hide a radio transmitter under the furnace bridge of the vault of his castle of the Hedge-Besnou. After the Vichyist law of the September 4th 1942 which authorized the government to force the men from 18 to 50 years, and the unmarried women from 21 to 35 years to carry out all work “considered to be useful in the superior interest of the Nation” and after the introduction of the Service of obligatory work in Germany, the February 16th 1943, the requisitions of men and women multiplied, including in the campaigns. Michel de Pontbriand, as a Mayor, was held to make carry these requisitions by thepastoral one but, each time, it managed to make warn the interested parties as a preliminary, thus enabling them to escape and, often, to join the maquis.
It was stopped the January 21st 1944, at the same time as the Hervouët abbot with Saint-Julien-with-Vouvantes and a certain number of other Resistant to Châteaubriant. It was then off-set, in particular with the camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Flossenbürg where it belonged to Kommando Floha whose only 50 deportees survived until the Libération in 1945.
Political life post-war period
On its return, reached tuberculosis, it was well looked after by Doctor Bernou at the Hospital of Fougerays with Châteaubriant. It was re-elected city council man of Erbray the April 26th 1945, and mayor the May 20th 1945. It will remain it until in 1983.He was at the same time General adviser of the Canton of Chateaubriant of 1945 with 1964 and senator of 1948 with 1965. Man of the right, appreciated on the left, it was an elected official qualified and gracious, benevolent and discrete, full with humor, opened with all, man of good council, with the listening of his fellow-citizens including more stripped.
He died at the end of August 2000.
Source: the Newspaper of Mée
Mandates
; Senator- 07/11/1948 - 18/06/1955: senator of the Loire-Atlantique
- 19/06/1955 - 26/04/1959: senator of the Loire-Atlantique
- 26/04/1959 - 01/10/1965: senator of the Loire-Atlantique
; General adviser
- 1945 - 1964: member of the General advice of the Loire-Atlantique, elected in the Canton of Chateaubriant
; Mayor
- 1941 - 1944: mayor of Erbray (Loire-Atlantique)
- 1945 - 1983: mayor of Erbray
External bonds
- Its card on the site of the Senate ()
- Its card on the site of the Senate (Life Egyptian dynasty)
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