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34-453: Reibel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Reibel (1882–1966), French lawyer and politician Earl Reibel (1930–2007), Canadian ice hockey player Grant Reibel (born 1980), Australian rugby league footballer Guy Reibel (born 1936), French composer See also [ edit ] Rebel (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

68-489: A book about the general subject of human geography, although his writings on the subject were published after his death in Problems of Human Geography (1942). This collection of his main articles covered a broad spectrum of human geography topics. Demangeon was interested in the interactions of man and nature, and also in history, although he felt that geography must remain a distinct subject. He wrote in 1906, "To explain

102-656: A distinguished economic geographer. Albert Demangeon died on 25 July 1940 in Paris, France. Demangeon was a prolific author. His pre-war work focused on physical regional geography, but later he also wrote on larger topics including several volumes of the Géographie Universelle published under the direction of Paul Vidal de La Blache and Lucien Gallois . At the Sorbonne he turned from physical to human geography. He avoided theoretical work, and did not write

136-502: A doctorate in law. He entered the Paris bar as secretary of the conference. He was an attaché to Raymond Poincaré until Poincaré was elected President of France. He ran unsuccessfully for election to the legislature in 1914. During World War I (1914–18) Reibel was not required to serve but volunteered. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre , the cross of knight of the Legion of Honour and

170-478: A mass of outstanding claims and administrative problems that Loucheur had been unable to resolve. The former war zone covered one fourteenth part of France's territory, but before the war had accounted for one fifth of tax revenues. Senator Paul Doumer described it six months after the Armistice as, "a desert, a zone of death, assassination and devastation ... There are corpses of horses, corpses of trees covering

204-535: A model of a regional monograph. He obtained a teaching post at the University of Lille . He collaborated with Antoine Vacher , Joseph Blayac and others on their Dictionnaire-manuel illustré de géographie (1907). The book received hostile reviews, and Demangeon seems to have accused Vacher of sabotaging the project. From 1911 he taught in Paris at the Sorbonne . During World War I (1914–18) Demangeon served in

238-682: A valuable guide to the National Archives for the use of geographers. He cooperated with historians, and coauthored The Rhine, Problems of History and Economy (1935) with Lucien Febvre . He studied current issues such as colonialism, globalization, the Great Depression and German ambitions. His Le déclin de l'Europe (1920) was published in the US in 1921 under the title America and the Race for World Domination . It argued that Europe

272-621: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Charles Reibel Charles Reibel was born on 29 December 1882 in Vesoul , Haute-Saône. His father was an intern in the Strasbourg hospital, grandson of a notary in Rhinau , Bas-Rhin. His mother's family was from Lorraine. He attended the lycée in Nancy for his secondary education, then studied at the faculty of law in Nancy, gaining

306-409: The surname Reibel . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reibel&oldid=1064667515 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

340-633: The Alliance Démocratique. Reibel resigned from the vice-presidency of the party, and violently attacked Flandin at the party congress. During World War II (1939–45) Reibel was appointed to the Senate army commission. During the Riom Trial Reibel stated that Jacomet, secretary-general of the defense ministry, had prevented the Senate army commission from sending a mission to the front until December 1939. The army commanders at

374-786: The Belgian fortifications were "really non-fortifications" and called on the Minister of War, Louis Maurin , to support financial aid to Belgium. Maurin declined to answer. Reibel ran for election to the Senate in 1935, and was elected in the second round on 23 October 1935 on the National Union list. After the Munich Agreement was signed in September 1938 Pierre-Étienne Flandin sent a telegram of congratulations to Adolf Hitler . Within an hour Paul Reynaud resigned from

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408-666: The English would object to discussions with Germany. Reibel was reelected on 11 May 1924, 29 April 1928 and 8 May 1932, but was not asked to join any of the governments in this period. He developed some resentment against Poincaré for this reason. In 1935 French intelligence considered that the Germans would have offensive capabilities by the next year. During a debate in the chamber Reibel said it would by "wise policy" to advance "the necessary sums to Belgium" so she could complete her defenses. He said that in their present incomplete state

442-628: The French government to North Africa or Britain. On 16 June 1940 Winston Churchill agreed to support a declaration of union between France and Britain. Paul Reynaud's council did not accept the proposal. Reibel said that if France continued in the war because of this meaningless union with Britain, which would soon be invaded, the whole of France would be laid waste by the Germans. On 10 July 1940 Reibel voted in favor of granting Marshal Philippe Pétain full powers. In his 1940 apology Pourquoi et comment fut décidée la demande d'armistice (Why and how it

476-461: The Rhine. Marshal Foch agreed, and told Reibel, "This is a decisive day. It depends on M. Poincaré whether war becomes impossible between France and Germany. Mark my words. The whole of France's victory is in M. Poincaré's hands. If we do not talk with Germany immediately it is an irretrievably lost opportunity." However, Poincaré refused, thinking that France was still in a strong position, and saying

510-554: The age of 83. Albert Demangeon Albert Demangeon (13 June 1872 – 25 July 1940) was a Professor of social geography at the Sorbonne in Paris for many years. He was an educator, a prolific author, and in the 1930s was the leading French academic in the field of human geography. He was a pioneer in the use of surveys to collect information on social questions. Albert Demangeon was born on 13 June 1872 in Cormeilles, Eure , France. His parents were not well off but Albert

544-572: The brave people of northern France, notably in the form of reconstruction cooperatives." In the spring on 1922 Reibel toured the "desert-like region" around Soupir to inspect efforts to restore land of the former "red zone" to cultivation, and based on what he saw pledged to support measures to continue to shrink the red zone and return its land to cultivation. At the beginning of 1924 Reibel stated that 55,000 hectares (140,000 acres) of farmland had been so badly disturbed that it would be many years before it could be brought back under cultivation. He said

578-399: The corpses of men." The geographer Albert Demangeon called it "a zone of death, 500 km long and 10–25 km broad, following the battle front in which good land has been transformed into a desert, a wild steppe, where the very fields have erupted ... farm buildings need to be restored, agricultural equipment renewed and the fertility of the soil made anew wherever the 'cyclone' has passed." By

612-497: The editorial board of the Revue d'Histoire Moderne , which was relaunched in 1926. By 1927 he was one of the directors of Armand Colin 's Annales de Géographie . Demangeon was noted as a university teacher, and also contributed to primary education. He was responsible for a well known collection of secondary school textbooks. In the mid-1930 he taught at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC). One of his students

646-504: The geographical corps of the army and drafted memos for the army staff. Towards the end of the war he was a member of the committee studying preparation for peace. The "section géographique française" helped define the policies that France would follow after the war on territorial arrangements. Demangeon returned to the Sorbonne after the war. He was Professor of economic geography at the Faculty of Letters from 1925 to 1940. He served on

680-413: The geographical phenomena of which man has been the witness or contriver, it is necessary to study their evolution in the past with the aid of documents." Later he defined three principles for the study of human geography: Demangeon's 1905 study of Picardy had a strong historical element, reflecting Vidal de la Blache's emphasis on the role of man in changing the face of the earth. Also in 1905 he produced

714-670: The rank of sous-intendant of the 41st Infantry Division. On 10 July 1915 he was attached to the office of Joseph Thierry , Under Secretary of State for War. On 16 November 1919 Reibel was elected deputy for Seine-et-Oise on the list of the National Democratic Union. On 20 January 1920 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State to the President of the Council, holding office in the cabinets of Alexandre Millerand and Georges Leygues until 16 January 1921. Reibel

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748-563: The state of munitions production. By June 1940 Reibel was among a group that had become convinced that an armistice was essential, others being Jean Montigny, Michel Brille , Adrien Marquet and Georges Scapini. He said, "I was waiting [in Bordeaux] for government ministers when they came out of sessions and I tried to convince them one by one of the necessity of the armistice. With French resistance collapsing, General Charles de Gaulle went to London on 15 June 1940 to discuss transport for

782-508: The state would expropriate this land, compensate the owners, and where possible plant it with trees. He said cultivation would probably be "forbidden for tens of years and perhaps even for centuries." Poincaré toyed with the idea of encouraging Rhineland independence during his ministry, but abandoned the idea. Millerand wanted a bilateral treaty between France and Germany that would cover the Ruhr coal, Lorraine iron ore and security for France on

816-415: The time Reibel took office the emergency phase was over, but he confirmed that he was committed to "restoring normal life in the towns and villages that fell victim to the invasion." He stated, however, that he would "count firmly upon private initiative", and would restrain direct employment by the state. He said the government would encourage "in every way in its power the individual and collective efforts of

850-426: The time were complaining about parliamentary commissioners disrupting the work of the commands and staffs. In February 1940 the deputy Fernand Robbe claimed in a secret session that France had only 800 modern planes with which to oppose 5,000 German planes. He blamed the situation on red tape, bureaucracy and lack of foresight by the government. That month Reibel wrote to Édouard Daladier to express his "anguish" about

884-457: The work there is a historical flavour with references to evolution of land use, development of routes, evolution of industry, changes to urban area. Demangeon used a precise vocabulary and linked observed facts in order to formulate new questions. He made use of questionnaires to investigate patterns as early as 1909. In the 1930s he used questionnaires in large surveys for a 1939 study of foreigners in French agriculture. The surveys, sponsored by

918-476: Was an outstanding student and won admission to the École Normale Supérieure in 1892. There he became interested in geography and in the teachings of Paul Vidal de La Blache . He graduated in geography in 1895 and became a teacher in a secondary school. He later was employed in the École Normale Supérieure preparing students for the Agrégation . Demangeon presented his thesis on Picardy in 1905, considered

952-481: Was decided to ask for an armistice) Reibel said that General Weygand did not think the Anglo-Americans would be superior to the Germans in air power for several years, especially given that the Germans would be able to draw on French production. He wrote, It was always civilian governments that, faced with the impossibility of continuing a war, imposed a cessation of hostilities on the generals; this time, it

986-442: Was deeply in debt and exhausted by the war, with reduced agricultural and industrial output, and low birth rates. The US and Japan had expanded their industries, replaced Europe's exports with their own, and were owed huge sums in exchange for the supplies they had shipped to Europe during the war. Demangeon wrote several studies of cities, but was more interested in the country, and also in economics. Throughout his career Demangeon

1020-469: Was interested in spatial variations of farmsteads. He presented a famous study of rural houses to the 1st International Congress of Folklore in 1937. His two-volume work France Économique et Humaine , published posthumously in 1944 and 1948, surveyed the rural life and economy, road, railway and canal routes and their traffic, coastal and inland towns, industry and Paris. There are in-depth surveys of agriculture, towns and industry for each region. Throughout

1054-616: Was reported to be in favor of a proposal by the Musée social supporting "the principle of complete equality [of men and women] for all functions, in ministries and central administrations and all departmental and communal administrations, at all levels of the hierarchy." Reibel was appointed Minister of the Liberated Regions in the Poincaré cabinet from 15 January 1922 to 29 March 1924. He succeeded Louis Loucheur and inherited

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1088-512: Was the future economist Albert O. Hirschman , who recorded that he gave "brilliant lectures", and used large and colorful maps to illustrate his themes of commerce and trade between geographical regions, and the resulting economic rivalries. Demangeon acted as an arbitrator in social conflicts at the time of the Popular Front (1936–38). Demangeon's daughter Suzanne married the geographer Aimé Vincent Perpillou (1902–76), who also became

1122-453: Was the military leaders who recognized the impossibility of continuing the fight and who, in vain, urged the government to appeal for an armistice. And what military leaders? The victors of the other war: Marshal Pétain, General Weygand , the lieutenant and intimate colleague of Foch. In March 1942 Pétain secretly submitted a ministerial list to the German security officials in Paris. Reibel

1156-584: Was to be Minister of the Interior. After negotiations in which the Americans were involved the government of Pierre Laval was formed on 26 April 1942, but without Reibel. Pétain remained head of state, but was no longer prime minister. After the Liberation of France the jury of honor confirmed Reibel's ineligibility for public office due to his vote on 10 July 1940. He died in Paris on 26 June 1966 at

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