René Pleven

René Pleven ( born April 15, 1901 in Rennes, † January 13, 1993 in Paris) was a French politician.

After his studies of law and politics in Paris with subsequent promotion of legal Pleven was until 1939 a director of a British telephone company. In 1940 he joined the founded by Charles de Gaulle Forces Françaises Libres and was built in 1941, after a stay in Africa under General Philippe de Hauteclocque, appointed by de Gaulle to London. Here he served as a member of the French National Committee of the government in exile until his return to France in 1944, the economy Commissariat.

In France he took over in 1944, first the Office of the Colonial Secretary, in November of the same year he became Minister of Finance and Minister of Economic Affairs, 1945, under de Gaulle. In the subsequent Cabinet of Georges Bidault, he was Secretary of Defense. From 1950 to 1952 he was twice Prime Minister of France. In his reign the ratification of the Schuman Plan by the French Parliament falls. He also developed the so-called Pleven Plan, pursuant to German armed forces should be incorporated into a European army.

From 1952 to 1954 he was Minister of Defence again. In 1958 he was appointed by Pierre Pflimlin foreign minister - the last of the Fourth Republic. Two weeks later, after de Gaulle took office as prime minister, he gave up this position to Maurice Couve de Murville. From 1958 to 1969 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe, 1969, he was appointed by Jacques Chaban -Delmas to the Minister of Justice of France. From this position he joined in 1973 as a result of electoral defeat back. From 1974 to 1976 he was president of the Regional Council of Brittany.