Name Pierre Garat Died 1976 | Role Civil servant | |
Pierre Garat (1919–1976) was a high-level civil servant of Vichy France. From 25 August 1943, he was the head of the service for the Jewish question for the Gironde. He was a member of the UJPF (a section of the PPF) and (according to the CDL for the Gironde) a member of the Petainist organisation "Les Amis du Marechal" (The Marshal's Friends).
In August 1943, Pierre Garat was made director of the cabinet of Pierre-Rene Gazagne, Prefet of Landes. On the liberation of Bordeaux, his dossier was examined by the Comite departemental de liberation for the Gironde, who put him and Maurice Papon on its list of people to separate from state service. Nevertheless, he was made sous-prefet at Dax in August 1944, then at Blaye in September.
In 1947, he re-assumed the Prefet Gazagne, became secretary-general of the general government of Algeria, becoming the director of its cabinet. He remained untried right up to his death in 1976.