Pierre Eugene Jean Pflimlin (February 5th 1907 with Roubaix - June 27th 2000 with Strasbourg) was a Politician French.

Biography

He made his studies with the college of Mulhouse, the catholic Institut of Paris and finally at the University of Strasbourg.

Graduate in right and political sciences, he became lawyer in 1933 at the bar of Strasbourg.

He briefly worked with the general secretary of youth, with Vichy, in 1941, then was named Examining magistrate with Thonon-the-Baths (of 1941 to 1944), and substitute of the public prosecutor with Metz (in 1944).

He was member of MRP as of his creation in 1945 and the presidency of 1956 of it with 1959 will occupy.

Its first ministerial functions were those of under-secretary of State to the ministry for the Public health and the Population (in 1946), then of under-secretary of State to the Nation's economy.

Very often Minister during the Fourth Republic, in particular Minister for Agriculture in eight governments between 1947 and 1951, without counting wallets in most of the governments being succeeded until in 1958 (trade, Europe, France of overseas, finances and economic affairs, etc).

It was the last but one President of the Council of the Fourth Republic; invested by the Parliament the May 14th 1958 at two o'clock in the morning (by 274 votes against 129), it did not have any capacity at the time constitutionally when the day before the events of Algiers (the May 13rd) proceeded and it is thus absurd to reproach him its inaction this day; the May 28th according to, in front of the threat of civil war, it preferred to give its resignation.

Having had to yield the place to Charles de Gaulle, it occupied however in its government the station of Minister of state (June 1st 1958 - January 8th 1959).

It returned to the government during the nomination of Georges Pompidou, as minister of state, Minister for the co-operation (April 15th - May 15th, 1962), resigning prematurely at the end of a month with the other ministers resulting from the MRP, because of serious dissensions with the de Gaulle general about European construction.

It passes to have been the first catholic mayor of Strasbourg of 1959 with 1983. In fact it was, seems it, the first mayor making profession of Catholicism. There had been before him Charles Hueber (1929-1935), baptized catholic but which, passed with Communism, encouraged the workmen to leave the Church.

President of the the European Parliament of 1984 to 1987, it withdraws political life at the end of his presidency.

He published, in 1991, the Mémoires of an European (Beech).

Other electoral mandates or local functions

• elected in the two constituent assemblies of 1945 and 1946
• appointed the Low-Rhine (1946-1971)
• general adviser of the Low-Rhine (1951-1970): Canton of Haguenau
• general adviser of the Low-Rhine (1971-1976): canton of Strasbourg-Is
• president of the General advice of the Low-Rhine (1951-1976)
• president of the council of the Urban community of Strasbourg (1967-1983)
• Maire of Strasbourg (1959-1983)

Other public office

• representing France with the Parliament of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament (1959-1967)

• president of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe (1963-1966)
• appointed European (1979-1989)
• president of the the European Parliament of the July 24th 1984 with the January 20th 1987 (half-mandate, as it is of use since the first election of the European Parliament by the vote for all in 1979).

Other functions

• administrator (1946) then president (1970) of the Port authority of Strasbourg

• president of the general Company for navigation on the Rhine (1965)
• president of the Study committee and of action for the Alsatian economy (as from 1950)
• president of the Company of installation and equipment of the area of Strasbourg (1959)
• president of the international Consortium of the shipping on the Rhine (as from 1971)
• administrator of the Survey firm and Association Sea of the North-Mediterranean
• president (1965-70) then honorary president (1970) of the Commission of regional economic development of Alsace (TO CODE)

Decorations

• Military Cross 1939-1945

• Bundesverdienstkreuz/Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1975)
• Price Robert Schuman of the Foundation Alfred Toepfer
• Ehrenbürger of the city of Stuttgart (1982)

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