Paul Tirard
Born(1879-06-02)2 June 1879
Nogent-le-Rotrou
Died23 December 1945(1945-12-23) (aged 66)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationChairman of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission.

Paul Tirard (2 June 1879 – 23 December 1945) was chairman of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission from 1919 to 1930.[1]

Biography

He was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou on 2 June 1879 into a family of industrialists, son of Ferdinand Tirard.[1]

He studied law (docteur en droit de la Faculté de Paris in 1906) before becoming a career civil servant. In 1912 he was involved in setting up the colonial administration of the French Protectorate of Morocco.[2] Président in 1943 of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

He died on 23 December 1945 in Paris, France (17ème arrondissement), 8 rue Anatole de La Forge and was bachelor.[1]

In October 1947 a French school, the Lycée Français Paul Tirard, was established in Mainz.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Paul Tirard, Directed Rhineland Occupation After First World War". New York Times. 25 December 1945.
  2. ↑ Theis, Kerstin. "Paul Tirard (1879–1945), President of the Rhineland Commission". Rheinische Geschichte. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  3. ↑ L'Écho Républicain de la Beauce et du Perche, 1/2 November 1947.

Bibliography

  • Tirard, Paul (1930). La France sur le Rhin. Paris: Plon.
  • Tirard, P. (1930) L'Art français de Rhine pendant l'Occupation 1918–1930. Strasbourg:
  • Pawley, Margaret (2007). The Watch on the Rhine: The Military Occupation of the Rhineland, 1918–1930. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-457-2.
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  • Jardin, P., (1989) 'La politique rhénane de Paul Tirard (1920–1923)', in Revue d'Allemagne 21, pp. 208–216.
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