Jean Mattéoli (December 20, 1922 in
Montchanin
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See also
*Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
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,
Saône-et-Loire
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Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...
– January 27, 2008 in
Paris
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) was a French politician. He was the
Minister of Social Affairs
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during the
Raymond Barre administration from 1979 to 1981 and also served as president of the
French Economic and Social Council from April 1987 to September 1999.
Biography (Timeline)
Mattéoli was involved in the
French Resistance
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starting in August 1940. He was a part of two networks: the (Office of Air Operations) and the . He was arrested by the Germans on 7 April 1944 and was deported to the
Neuengamme concentration camp, then
Bergen-Belsen. After the war, he received three commendations, including two and the Citation à l'ordre du Régiment.
In 1945, he represented the
French provisional government in
Burgundy
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and
Franche-Comté
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. The following year, he was appointed head of economic and financial issues for the administrator of the French-occupied zone of Germany, Emile Laffon. He later accompanied a group of nationalized coal mining enterprises in northern France when he took office as president of .
In October 1968, for his extensive knowledge of the terrain, the French government appointed him commissioner for industrialization of the
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, and chairman for industrialization of the
Ardennes
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. In 1973, he was additionally appointed by the government as president of
Charbonnages de France
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.
In 1974, as a member of the
Economic and Social Council, he was elected president of the section on economic problems and general trends.
Following the death of his predecessor
Robert Boulin, he joined the French government in November 1979 as the Minister of Labour.
In 1983 he was elected Councilor of Paris, Deputy Mayor, and Regional Councilor. He left local government when he was elected president of the Economic and Social Council in April 1987, succeeding . He was re-elected to this post on 10 October 1989, 10 March 1992, 28 September 1994, and the 25 March 1997.
He was President of the
(National Federation of Deportees and Resistance and Patriot Internees) (FNDIR) from 1987 to 1993. In 1993, he helped establish the , of which he was president.
In June 1993, Prime Minister
Édouard Balladur asked him to chair a commission of experts on structural obstacles to employment. He recruited
Patrick Devedjian, , , ,
Claude Bébéar
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Biography Early life
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and
Alain Minc
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Biography
Early life
Alain Minc was born on April 15, 1949 in Paris to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His father, Joseph Minkowski, was a denti ...
. Their September 1994 report suggested lower pay for low-skilled jobs and proposed the Contrat d'insertion professionnelle (CIP).
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In December 1995, Prime Minister
Alain Juppé
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appointed him
ombudsman
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in a dispute with the
SNCF
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.
On 9 May 1996, the President of France appointed him to the administrative council of the Ordre National de la
Legion d'Honneur.
In February 1997, the prime minister appointed him to study the acquisition in 1940 to 1944 of property belonging to Jews in France through fraud or violence by
Nazis
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and
Vichy France
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authorities.
Mattéoli was raised to the honor of Grand'Croix of the Legion of Honour in 1998. He was the holder of the
Croix de Guerre
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and the
Resistance Medal
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.
He was unanimously elected Honorary President of the French Economic and Social Council on 28 September 1999.
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Biography of Jean Mattéoli
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1922 births
2008 deaths
French politicians