Étienne Hirsch

Étienne Hirsch ( born January 24, 1901 in Paris, † 17 May 1994, Paris) was a French mining engineer and politician.

Life

Hirsch was born into a middle-class Jewish family and studied at a mountain high school; then he worked in the chemical industry.

Before the German Wehrmacht, he fled from France first to London and later became active in the Resistance under the code name Commandant Bernard. He worked from 1943 in Algiers with Jean Monnet together.

After the end of the war Hirsch was involved in the drafting of the Schuman Plan and took over the management of the Commissariat général 1952 du Plan. From 1959 to 1961 he headed the European Atomic Energy Community.

Swell

  • Biographical Note on the pages of the Federal Government
  • Obituary The New York Times (English)
  • Biographical presentation (in French ) (PDF file, 106 kB)

ECSC (1952-1967): Jean Monnet | René Mayer | Paul Finet | Piero Malvestiti | Dino Del Bo

Euratom (1958-1967): Louis Armand | Étienne Hirsch | Pierre Chatenet

EEC (1958-1967): Walter Hallstein

EC / EU: Jean Rey | Franco Maria Malfatti | Mansholt | François -Xavier Ortoli | Roy Jenkins | Gaston Thorn | Jacques Delors | Jacques Santer | Romano Prodi | José Manuel Barroso

Credentials

  • Politicians (France)
  • Resistance fighters
  • Frenchman
  • Born 1901
  • Died in 1994
  • Man
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