(b. Roubaix, 5 Feb. 1907; d. 27 June 2000) French; Prime Minister 1958 Born in Roubaix (Nord), Pflimlin moved as a young man to his future political fiefdom Strasbourg, where he practised law and was active in right-wing politics. Like many other inter-war European conservatives, he switched in 1945 to the more politically respectable cause of Christian Democracy, which in France was embodied by the Mouvement Républicain Populaire. He was an MRP representative in both Constituent Assemblies and in 1946 became a deputy for the Bas Rhin. His political hero was Robert Schuman, the champion of European integration, who appointed him Minister of Agriculture in 1947. He subsequently held senior posts in a number of governments and became Prime Minister in May 1958, just as the events in Algeria boiled over into a full-scale crisis of civil-military relations and thus of the future of the Fourth Republic. Pflimlin was unable to persuade the army commanders in Algeria to accept the supremacy of the civil power and his proposals for constitutional reform were lost in the excitement produced by de Gaulle's reappearance. A secret meeting between the two men failed to produce a solution to the constitutional crisis and had barely finished before de Gaulle announced that he was forming a government. Pflimlin resigned on 31 May. The following day he became Minister without Portfolio in de Gaulle's new government, where he intervened in the drafting of the Fifth Republic constitution to protect the parliamentary nature of governmental power. This was one indication of the limits of his acceptance of the Gaullist project for France. Another, more fundamental, disagreement emerged over the future shape of Europe. Pflimlin had been re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1958 and the following year became mayor of Strasbourg, the city which was a symbol of the cause of European integration. In April 1962 he was appointed Minister of Co-operation in the new Pompidou government. Four weeks later, he led the walkout of the MRP ministers in protest against de Gaulle's derisive rejection in a press conference of the cause of European integration. He then voted the censure motion against Pompidou's government which followed the announcement of a referendum on the direct election of the presidency. Unlike many of his MRP colleagues, he retained his seat in the 1962 parliamentary elections but gave it up five years later to concentrate on his two principal interests, Strasbourg (where he was mayor until 1983) and the European Community (whose parliament he presided over in 1984).
Pflimlin's career, like that of Lecanuet, demonstrated the persistence in France of a Christian Democratic family which could not accept the nationalist, and anti-parliamentarian, elements in Gaullism.
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| In office 14 May 1958 – 1 June 1958 |
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| Preceded by | Félix Gaillard |
| Succeeded by | Charles de Gaulle |
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| In office 1984 – 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Piet Dankert |
| Succeeded by | Charles Henry Plumb |
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| Born | 5 February 1907 |
| Died | June 27, 2000 (aged 93) |
| Political 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.[1]
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Life
Pfilimlin was born in Roubaix in the département Nord.
A lawyer and a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (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.
References
- ^ Pierre Pfimlin, The Guardian, 28 June 2000
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| Preceded by Marcel Roclore |
Minister of Agriculture 1947–1949 |
Succeeded by Gabriel Valay |
| Preceded by Gabriel Valay |
Minister of Agriculture 1950–1951 |
Succeeded by Paul Antier |
| Preceded by Jean-Marie Louvel |
Minister of Commerce and External Commercial Relations 1951–1952 |
Succeeded by Édouard Bonnefous |
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Minister for the Council of Europe 1952 |
Succeeded by — |
| Preceded by Louis Jacquinot |
Minister of Overseas France 1952–1953 |
Succeeded by Louis Jacquinot |
| Preceded by Robert Buron |
Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning 1955–1956 |
Succeeded by Robert Lacoste |
| Preceded by Félix Gaillard |
Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs 1957–1958 |
Succeeded by Edgar Faure |
| Preceded by Félix Gaillard |
Prime Minister of France 1958 |
Succeeded by Charles de Gaulle |
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Minister of State 1958–1959 |
Succeeded by — |
| Preceded by Jean Foyer |
Minister of Cooperation 1962 |
Succeeded by Georges Gorse |
| Preceded by Per Federspiel |
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 1963–1966 |
Succeeded by Geoffrey de Freitas |
| Preceded by Piet Dankert |
President of the European Parliament 1984–1987 |
Succeeded by The Lord Plumb |
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