Pierre Pflimlin Totally Explained

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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.

Career

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 expected 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.

Pflimlin's Ministry, 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.

Honors

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

Service

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