Pierre Christmas

Pierre Christmas was the Maire of Saint-Dié of 1965 with 1977.

Mandates

1965 - 1977: Mayor of the town of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges (the Vosges)
1967 - 1979: General adviser of the Vosges, canton of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges (the Vosges)

Other information

Pierre CHRISTMAS, Teacher, Politician, 1928 - 1996. Christmas (Pierre, Auguste, Georges). Born on September 25th, 1928 in Malzéville (54) Wire of Louis Auguste Christmas, and Renee Loraux. Married on April 4th, 1953 with Annie Picard (1926-), with whom it has four children: Sabine (1954-), Catherine (1955-), Marie-Lorraine (1961-), Anne-Dye stick (1964-). Deceased on May 20th, 1996 in the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

Studies: College of Lunéville, University of Nancy. Dipl. : Bachelor of philosophy and English. Carr. : Certified English teacher, teaches in the colleges of Longwy, Remiremont, Lunéville and Saint-Dié.Puis politician: Mayor of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges of March 1965 in March 1977. General adviser of the Vosges of March 1967 in March 1979. Decoration. : Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

After a double license of philosophy, then of English to the faculty of Nancy, Pierre Christmas remains one year in England like reader at the University, then it carries out its military service in Germany (Mulheim - FRG) until October 1953. It begins its career of teacher in Longwy, then is established, in 1958, in the Saint-Diè-of-Vosges. Engaged very early in the trade-union and political combat, Pierre Christmas militates with the Unified Socialist party (PSU). With the municipal elections of 1965, he is elected mayor of Saint-Dié, with the head of a municipality gathering various left parties, an innovation in the political scene of then. Invited to choose between this function and the membership of the PSU, Pierre Christmas resigns and joined the Convention of the Republican Institutions (CIR) which has just created François Mitterrand. Saint-Dié was heavily tested by the war and, so in 1965 the rebuilding is well engaged, it remains much to be made to restore the city, to equip it with the equipment which it needs, and to ensure its economic and cultural radiation. From 1965 to 1977 Pierre Christmas and his municipality develop an ambitious project of social habitat and equipment: general sports room, worker youth hostel, house for all, schools, library, old people's homes, village hall, and the local museum which bears today the name of Pierre Christmas. Some of these achievements are then quoted in example at the national level like the library. In 1977, the town hall is taken again by the list carried out by Maurice Jeandon (RPR). Also general adviser of the Vosges, canton of Saint-Dié since 1967, it will remain to it until March 1979, date on which it is withdrawn from the policy. He dies brutally on May 20th, 1996.

the museum of the town of Saint-Dié of the Vosges is called " Pierre-Noël" museum;
It is under its mandate that Saint-Dié was twinned with Friedrichshafen (Germany)

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