Paul Tirard Explained

Paul Tirard
Birth Date:	1879 6, df=yes
Birth Place:	Nogent-le-Rotrou
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	French
Occupation:	Chairman 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.

Biography

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

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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

Bibliography

• Book: Tirard, Paul . La France sur le Rhin . 1930 . Plon . Paris .
• Tirard, P. (1930) L'Art français de Rhine pendant l'Occupation 1918–1930. Strasbourg:
• Book: Pawley, Margaret. The Watch on the Rhine: The Military Occupation of the Rhineland, 1918–1930. I.B.Tauris. 2007. 978-1-84511-457-2.

• Jardin, P., (1989) 'La politique rhénane de Paul Tirard (1920–1923)', in Revue d'Allemagne 21, pp. 208–216.

Notes and References

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