André Boutemy
| André Boutemy | |
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| Minister of Health and Population | |
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In office 8 January 1953 – 9 February 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Ribeyre |
| Succeeded by | Paul Ribeyre |
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21 December 1905 Bécherel, Ille-et-Vilaine, France |
| Died | 14 July 1959 (aged 53) Combs-la-Ville, Seine-et-Marne, France |
| Nationality | French |
André Boutemy (21 December 1905 – 14 July 1959) was a French lawyer, senior administrator and then politician. He served under the Vichy government during the occupation of France in World War II (1939–45), and as a result was barred from politics until 1950. In the immediate post-war period he distributed funds from industry to support right-wing politicians running for election. He was elected to the senate in 1952 and was briefly Minister of Health in 1953 before being forced to resign by the communist deputies.
André Boutemy was born on 21 December 1905 in Bécherel, Ille-et-Vilaine. He was the son of a primary school inspector. He earned a degree in law, and was admitted as a rédacteur to the Ministry of Finance in 1929, where he was seconded to the Finance Committee of the chamber of deputies. In 1925 he entered the office of Jammy-Schmidt, undersecretary of state of Finance in charge of the liberated regions. At the start of World War II (1939–45) he was a subaltern civil servant in the Ministry of Finance.
During the war the Vichy authorities named Boutemy deputy prefect of Thonon-les-Bains in October 1940. On 29 November 1941 he was appointed director of General Information. In this office, where he served under Pucheu and Pierre Laval, he was responsible for tracking all real or potential opposition movements. On 14 May 1943 he was appointed prefect of the Loire, and on 11 June 1944 regional prefect of the Rhône. The German authorities explicitly approved his appointment as super-prefect for the Lyon region. Later he was accused of being directly responsible for killings of French Resistance fighters.
Boutemy worked with Georges Villiers, who had been appointed mayor of Lyon after Édouard Herriot was dismissed. He saved Villiers from being executed by a German firing squad. He was removed from office during the Liberation of France and detained in Saint-Étienne, then in Fresnes Prison. Boutemy had assisted members of the Resistance, and therefore did not receive serious punishment after the Liberation. However, as late as 1948 the Council of State stated that whatever good deeds Boutemy had done during the war, "he had associated himself in the exercise of his functions in an intimate and active fashion with the policies of the government."
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