Popular Republican foreign minister whose 1950 Schuman Declaration proposed the European Coal and Steel Community
Born in Luxembourg in 1886 to a father from Lorraine, he grew up a German citizen and set up as a lawyer in Metz in 1912. When Alsace-Lorraine returned to France in 1918 he became a French citizen, and he was deputy for the Moselle from 1919 to 1962. In 1940 he was under-secretary for refugees, and that September he was arrested by the Gestapo. After the war, for the Popular Republican Movement, he was finance minister and then President of the Council in 1947 and 1948. As foreign minister from 1948 he issued on 9 May 1950 the Schuman Declaration proposing to pool French and West German coal and steel under a common authority. He was the first president of the European Parliament in 1958–1960.
Activities and affiliations
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1919–1962
Legislature and state representation
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1946–1953
France state institutionsPresident of the Council, Minister of Foreign AffairsHeads of state and government of FranceMain
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1947–
Popular Republican Movement (MRP)
Government and administration
Career Timeline
- 1919–1940Deputy for the Moselle
- 1940.03–07Under-Secretary of State for Refugees
- 1946–1962Deputy for the Moselle
- 1946–1947Minister of Finance
- 1947.11.24–1948.07.19President of the Council of Ministers
- 1948.09.05–07President of the Council of Ministers
- 1948–1953Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1958–1960President of the European Parliament