Louis Germain-Martin (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒɛʁmɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃]; 7 November 1872, in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire – 4 October 1948, in Paris) was an Independent Radical French politician. He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the government of André Tardieu, and later a Budget Minister, before serving three times as Finance minister for much of the first half of the 1930s.
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Louis Germain-Martin (1932)
On 23 January 1941, Germain-Martin was made a member of the National Council of Vichy France.[1]