Jacques Baumel


Jacques Baumel was a French politician. He was born on 6 March 1918 in Marseille and died 17 February 2006 in Rueil-Malmaison. He was a French resistance fighter, deputy in the National Assembly, a Senator, an important leader of the Gaullist movement, and Secretary of State and mayor of Rueil-Malmaison.

Resistance fighter

After medical studies in France, Jacques Baumel took part in the French Resistance and directed the Combat resistance group in Marseille. In 1943, he was Secretary General of the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance . In 1945 helped found the Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance. He served on the Provisional Consultative Assembly. In 1945, he was elected Deputy of the National Assembly of Moselle to the First National Constituent Assembly, was elected in Creuse to the Second Assembly but defeated in the elections to the National Assembly of 1946. He chaired the parliamentary group of the UDSR. He participated in the development of Rassemblement du peuple français from its founding in 1947.

Record of political longevity

As a senator from 1959 to 1967, he was one of the assistant secretaries general of the Union for the New Republic. He went to the United States and examined the campaign of John F. Kennedy in 1960. He became the General Secretariat of the Gaullist movement December 7, 1962 after the success of the Union for the New Republic in November, a position he held until January 19, 1968, when he was replaced by Robert Poujade. He was elected during the new elections to the National Assembly as soon as 1967 and held a seat in Palais Bourbon until 2002. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, of the Union for the Defence of the Republic and Rally for the Republic.

Mayor for 33 years

Jacques Baumel was Secretary of State to the Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas to. He was mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, "a provincial town outside Paris" to use his words, from 1971 to 2004, at the origin of . He practiced an active policy of sister cities with many foreign cities. His municipal policy promoted the establishment of head offices of important business, both French and foreign. The preschool system is particularly strong in his city. A library opened in 2002 that bears his name.

Expert on parliamentary diplomacy

He chaired the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine for nine years starting in 1970. Internationally, he represented the French Parliament to Assembly of the Western European Union in Assembly of the Western European Union and the Inter-Parliamentary Union where he opposed all forms of totalitarianism.
He is buried in the village cemetery of Fourneville in Calvados. His wife, Louise Bachelot, was born September 11, 1924, and died November 14, 2013.

Publications

Jacques Baumel appeared as a witness in the television documentary La traversée du désert of Patrick Pesnot in 2005.

Achievements