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André Diethelm
André Diethelm (center) reviews troops in liberated Marseille (Aug. 1944)
Commissioner of Cities, Labor, and Information
In office 1941–1943
Deputy of the National Assembly
In office 1945–1946
Deputy of the National Assembly
In office 1951–1954
Senator
In office 1948–1951
Personal details
Born	(1896-07-03)July 3, 1896 Bourg-en-Bresse
Died	January 11, 1954(1954-01-11) (aged 57) Paris
Political party	Farmers' Social Union Party [fr]
Other political affiliations	Rally of the French People

André Diethelm (3 July 1896 – 11 January 1954) was aFrench Resistance fighter and politician. As anInspector General of Finance, he joinedGeneral de Gaulle andFree France during the Second World War, and presided over theRally of the French People political party (Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF)) under theFourth Republic.

He was born inBourg-en-Bresse (Ain department) and pursued a secondary education inFoix. He was admitted to the prestigiousÉcole normale supérieure in Paris in 1914, but the war interrupted his studies just as they began.

Diethelm fought in theFirst World War, inAlsace, on the Eastern front, and in Greece.

After the war, he returned to the École normale supérieure but in 1919 he gave up taking thecompetitive civil service exam, preferring to go for the competitive exam for theInspectorate General of Finances, in which he came in second.^{[1][page needed]} He was in charge of the finances ofIndochina, then became director ofGeorges Mandel's cabinet from 1938 to 1940.^{[citation needed]}

Joining Free France, he was appointed commissioner for the Interior, Labour and Information, by de Gaulle, then for Finance and Pensions, and finally for Finance, the Economy and the Merchant Navy under theFrench National Committee in 1941–1943. He was the first director of theCaisse Centrale de la France Libre.

In the government of Algiers (French Committee of National Liberation, CFLN), he was commissioner for Production and Commerce, then for Supply and Production. On 4 April 1944, he became War Commissioner.^{[2][better source needed]} And on 9 September 1944, Minister of War in thefirst government of Charles de Gaulle ^[fr] through 21 November 1945.

Deputy of theVosges in theConstitutional Assembly of 1945 ^[fr], he then sat on theCouncil of the Republic from 1948 to 1951. Then he was deputy for theSeine-et-Oise department in 1951. He succeededJacques Soustelle as President of theRally of the French People (RPF) faction in the National Assembly, then chaired theUnion of Republicans for Social Action ^[fr] (URAS). Sickness forced him to give up his post, which was taken over byJacques Chaban-Delmas. PresidentVincent Auriol asked him to form a government on 24 May 1953, but he refused.

Diethelm died on 11 January 1954 in Paris.^{[citation needed]}

• Tirouflet, Michel[in French] (2012).André Diethelm (1896–1954): le pilier de la France libre (in French). Paris: Nicolas Chaudun.ISBN 978-2-35039-148-9.

• Lambert, Gilles[in French];Mazeaud, Pierre (2010).L'ombre du général de Gaulle: André Diethelm (1896-1954) (in French). Paris:Philippe Rey.ISBN 978-2-84876-148-0.as quoted in el Saad-2010
• el Saad, Lamia (2010)."L'ombre du général de Gaulle" [The Shadow of General de Gaulle].L'Orient littéraire (in French). L'Orient Le Jour.
• Turpin, Frédéric[in French];Georges-Henri Soutou[in French] (2004).André Diethelm (1896-1954) : de Georges Mandel à Charles de Gaulle (in French). Paris: les Indes savantes.ISBN 2-84654-067-5.

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