Pierre Pflimlin

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Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Pflimlin
In office
1984 – 1987
Preceded by Piet Dankert
Succeeded by Charles Henry Plumb
In office
May 13, 1958 – June 1, 1958
Preceded by Félix Gaillard
Succeeded by Charles de Gaulle
Born February 5, 1907
Died June 27, 2000
Political party MRP

Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (February 5, 1907 in Roubaix - June 27, 2000 in Strasbourg) 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.

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Lawyer, member of the Christian Democratic party MRP, he was elected deputy of Bas Rhin département in 1945. 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). With his personal roots in Alsace, eastern France, 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.

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

Mayor of Strasbourg from 1959 to 1983, he later served as President of the European Parliament, from 1984 to 1987.

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


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
Preceded by
—		 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
Preceded by
—		 Minister of State
1958–1959		 Succeeded by
—
Preceded by
Jean Foyer		 Minister of Cooperation
1962		 Succeeded by
Georges Gorse
Preceded by
Piet Dankert		 President of the European Parliament
1984–1987		 Succeeded by
The Lord Plumb
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Flag of Europe Presidents of the European Parliament
Common Assembly (1952–1958) Paul-Henri Spaak · Alcide De Gasperi · Giuseppe Pella · Hans Furler
Parliamentary Assembly (1958–1962) Robert Schuman · Hans Furler
Appointed Parliament (1962–1979) Gaetano Martino · Jean Duvieusart · Victor Leemans · Alain Poher · Mario Scelba · Walter Behrendt · Cornelis Berkhouwer · Georges Spénale · Emilio Colombo
European Parliament (1979–present) Simone Veil · Piet Dankert · Pierre Pflimlin · Henry Plumb · Enrique Barón · Egon Klepsch · Klaus Hänsch · José María Gil-Robles · Nicole Fontaine · Pat Cox · Josep Borrell · Hans-Gert Pöttering
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