Pierre Pflimlin

Pierre Pflimlin

Infobox Prime Minister
name=Pierre Pflimlin


order=Prime Minister of France
term_start =13 May 1958
term_end =1 June 1958
predecessor =Félix Gaillard
successor =Charles de Gaulle
order2 =President of the European Parliament
term_start2 =1984
term_end2 =1987
predecessor2 =Piet Dankert
successor2 =Charles Henry Plumb
birth_date =5 February 1907
death_date =death date and age|2000|6|27|1907|2|5|
party=MRP

Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (5 February 1907 - 27 June 2000) was a French Christian Democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2000/jun/28/guardianobituaries Pierre Pfimlin] , The Guardian, 28 June 2000]

Life

Pfilimlin was born in Roubaix in the département Nord.

A lawyer and a member of the Christian Democratic MRP, he was elected deputy of département Bas Rhin in 1945. With his personal roots in Alsace, Pflimlin numbered among his MRP party colleagues the Luxembourg-born Robert Schuman, for both of whom relations with Germany played an important part in their political thinking.

He held some governmental offices during the Fourth Republic notably as Minister of Agriculture (1947-1949 and 1950-1951) and as Minister of Economy and Finance (1955-1956 and 1957-1958).

In 13 May 1958, the French National Assembly approved his nomination as Prime Minister. But the same day, riots took place in Algiers. The French generals in Algeria expected him to search for a negotiated solution with the Algerian nationalists and refused to recognized his cabinet. The crisis brought Charles de Gaulle to the head of the cabinet, on 1 June.

Minister of State until 1959, Minister of Cooperation in 1962, he resigned with the other MRP ministers in order to protest against the euro-scepticism of de Gaulle.

Pflimlin served as mayor of Strasbourg from 1959 to 1983.

He also was the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1963 to 1966 and President of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1987.

He died at Strasbourg in 2000.

Honors

The Pierre Pflimlin bridge over the Rhine south of Strasbourg, connecting France to Germany, is named after him and was opened in 2002.

Government (14 May - 1 June 1958)

*Pierre Pflimlin - President of the Council
*Guy Mollet - Vice President of the Council
*René Pleven - Minister of Foreign Affairs
*Maurice Faure - Minister of the Interior
*Pierre de Chevigné - Minister of Armed Forces
*Edgar Faure - Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning
*Paul Ribeyre - Minister of Commerce and Industry
*Paul Bacon - Minister of Labour and Social Security
*Robert Lecourt - Minister of Justice
*Jacques Bordeneuve - Minister of National Education
*Vincent Badie - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
*Roland Boscary-Monsservin - Minister of Agriculture
*André Colin - Minister of Overseas France
*Édouard Bonnefous - Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
*André Maroselli - Minister of Public Health and Population
*Pierre Garet - Minister of Reconstruction and Housing
*Édouard Corniglion-Molinier - Minister for the Sahara
*Félix Houphouët-Boigny - Minister of State

Changes:
*17 May 1958 - Maurice Faure becomes Minister of European Institutions. Jules Moch succeeds Faure as Minister of the Interior. Albert Gazier enters the ministry as Minister of Information. Max Lejeune succeeds Houphouët-Boigny as Minister of State.

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