Pierre Dupong

Pierre Dupong ( born 1 November 1885 in Heisdorf, † December 23, 1953 in Luxembourg City ) was a Luxembourgian politician and in January 1914 co-founder of the right-wing party ( Parti de la droite ), which had at that time opposed by the Left Bloc of Socialist and Radical Liberals.

Pierre Dupong studied abroad law and worked as a lawyer from 1911. It was 1915, still according to the census suffrage, elected in Canton chapels to deputies. In 1936 he became minister of finance, social welfare and labor, one year later he was after the referendum on the " muzzle law" Minister of State and Head of Government. While the German Wehrmacht had occupied Luxembourg, the Dupong government worked in exile (May 10, 1940 to September 23, 1944 ) - first in Paris, then to Portugal in Canada.

He died in 1953 due to an embolism due to a broken leg.

In a pamphlet he had written in 1917, is Dupong turned against a renaming of its right-wing party in " Catholic People's Party " because he kept this name for narrows. Only in December 1944, after the liberation of Luxembourg from German occupation, the right-wing party reconstituted itself under the name " Chrëschtlech Social Vollekspartei (CSV) ". Dupong is now regarded as one of its founding figures.