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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
In office 1945–1946
Deputy
In office 1951–1954
Senator
In office 1948–1951
Personal details
Born	(1896-07-03)July 3, 1896 Bourg-en-Bresse
Died	July 8, 1943(1943-07-08) (aged 47) Paris
Political party	Farmers' Social Union Party [fr]
Other political affiliations	Rally of the French People

André Diethelm (3 July 1896 – 8 July 1943) was born in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain department) was a French Resistance fighter and politician. As an Inspector of Finance, he joined General de Gaulle and Free France during the Second World War, and presided over the Rally of the French People political party (Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF)) under the Fourth Republic.

He pursued a secondary education in Foix. He was admitted to the presigioius École normale supérieure in Paris in 1914, but the war interrupted his studies just as they began.

Diethelm fought in the First World War, in Alsace, on the Eastern front, and in Greece.

After the war, he returned to the École normale supérieure but in 1919 he gave up taking the competitive civil service exam, preferring to go for the competitive exam for the Inspectorate General of Finances, in which he came in second.^{[1][page needed]} He was in charge of the finances of Indochina, then became director of of Georges 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 the French National Committee in 1941-1943. He was the first director of the Caisse centrale of Free France ^[fr]

In the government of Algiers ([[Comité français de libération nationale], 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 the first government of Charles de Gaulle ^[fr] through 21 November 1945.

Deputy of the Vosges in the Constitutional Assembly of 1945 ^[fr], he then sat on the Council of the Republic from 1948 to 1951. Then he was deputy for the Seine-et-Oise department in 1951. He succeeded Jacques Soustelle as President of the Rally of the French People (RPF) faction in the National Assembly, then chaired the Union of Republicans for Social Action ^[fr] (URAS). Sickness forced him to give up his post, which was taken over by Jacques Chaban-Delmas. President Vincent Auriol asked him to form a government on 24 May 1953, but he refused.

Diethelm died 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. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |collection= (help)
• 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. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |collection= (help)

• 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 {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |collection= (help)
• 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.

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• 2004046071 VIAF
• Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)

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