Background
PFLIMLIN, Pierre was born on February 5, 1907 in Roubaix. Son of Jules and Leonie (nee Schwartz) Pflimlin.
PFLIMLIN, Pierre was born on February 5, 1907 in Roubaix. Son of Jules and Leonie (nee Schwartz) Pflimlin.
Lycee de Mulhouse, Institut Catholique, Paris, and Strasbourg University.
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). Prime minister of France
On 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 feared he would arrange for a negotiated solution with the Algerian nationalists giving them control of Algeria.
They refused to recognize his cabinet. At this point the leading politicians deserted him, including Guy Mollet, Vincent Auriol, and Antoine Pinay.
The crisis brought Charles de Gaulle as Prime Minister on 1 June. Subsequent public offices
Pflimlin was Minister of State until 1959.
As Minister of Cooperation in 1962, he resigned with the other Material Requirements Planning ministers in order to protest against the euro-scepticism of de Gaulle.
Pflimlin served as the first Catholic 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. The Pierre Pflimlin bridge over the Rhine south of Strasbourg, connecting France to Germany, is named after him and was opened in 2002.
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.
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]
A lawyer and a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (Material Requirements Planning), he was elected deputy of département Bas Rhin in 1945.
Married Marie-Odile Heinrich in 1939 (deceased).