Paul Ramadier

Paul Ramadier
Prime Minister of France
In office 22 January 1947 – 24 November 1947
Preceded by	Léon Blum
Succeeded by	Robert Schuman
Personal details
Born	17 March 1888
Died
Political party	SFIO

Paul Ramadier (French pronunciation: ​[pɔl ʁamadje]; 17 March 1888 in La Rochelle – 14 October 1961 in Rodez) was a prominent French politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. Mayor of Decazeville, starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947.

On 10 July 1940, he voted against the granting of the full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who installed the Vichy regime the next day.

Ramadier took part in the Resistance where he used the nom de guerre Violette. His name was included in the Yad Vashem Jewish memorial after the war. It was during his first ministry that the Communists were forced out of the government in May 1947, ending the "tripartisme" coalition between the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), Popular Republican Movement and Communists. He voted for the Marshall Plan.

From 1956 until 1957, Ramadier was Finance Minister under Guy Mollet.

Governments

First Ministry (22 January – 22 October 1947)

• Paul Ramadier – President of the Council
• Maurice Thorez – Vice President of the Council
• Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Paul Coste-Floret – Minister of War
• Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Marine
• André Maroselli – Minister of Air
• Édouard Depreux – Minister of the Interior
• Robert Schuman – Minister of Finance
• André Philip – Minister of National Economy
• Robert Lacoste – Minister of Industrial Production
• Ambroise Croizat – Minister of Labour and Social Security
• André Marie – Minister of Justice
• Marcel Edmond Naegelen – Minister of National Education
• François Mitterrand – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• François Tanguy-Prigent – Minister of Agriculture
• Pierre Bourdan – Minister of Youth, Arts, and Letters
• Marius Moutet – Minister of Overseas France
• Jules Moch – Minister of Public Works and Transport
• Georges Marrane – Minister of Public Health and Population
• Charles Tillon – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning.
• Jean Letourneau – Minister of Commerce
• Félix Gouin – Minister of Planning
• Marcel Roclore – Minister of State
• Yvon Delbos – Minister of State

Changes:

• 4 May 1947 – Pierre-Henri Teitgen succeeds Thorez as Vice President of the Council. The other Communist ministers (Croizat, Marranne, and Tillon) also resign.
• 9 May 1947 – Daniel Mayer succeeds Croizat as Minister of Labour and Social Security. Robert Prigent succeeds Marranne as Minister of Public Health and Population. Jean Letourneau succeeds Tillon as Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning. Eugène Thomas enters the Cabinet as Minister of Posts.
• 11 August 1947 – Robert Lacoste succeeds Letourneau as Minister of Commerce, becoming thus Minister of Commerce and Industry.

Second Ministry (22 October – 24 November 1947)

• Paul Ramadier – President of the Council
• Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Pierre-Henri Teitgen – Minister of National Defense
• Édouard Depreux – Minister of the Interior
• Robert Schuman – Minister of Finance
• Jules Moch – Minister of Economic Affairs, Planning, Public Works, Transport, Reconstruction, and Town Planning
• Robert Lacoste – Minister of Industry
• André Marie – Minister of Justice
• Marcel Edmond Naegelen – Minister of National Education
• Daniel Mayer – Minister of Social Affairs, Veterans, and War Victims
• Marcel Roclore – Minister of Agriculture
• Paul Coste-Floret – Minister of Overseas France
• Yvon Delbos – Minister of State

Political offices
Preceded by Pierre-Henri Teitgen	Minister of Justice 1946–1947	Succeeded by André Marie
Preceded by Léon Blum	Prime Minister of France 1947	Succeeded by Robert Schuman

External links

• Paul Ramadier – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website