Rene Pleven

Rene Pleven , born the April 15th 1901 with Rennes, dead the January 13rd 1993 with Paris, was a Politician French.

Biography

He is the school-fellow of Raphaël Moreau with the Lycée of Laval. Director for Europe of the “Automatic Telephones Company”, it joined the general De Gaulle with London in June 1940. He takes an active part in the rallying of the French equatorial Africa (AEF) with the free France and will become chief of the French mission of the Air to the the United States. He will be successively police chief with the Colonies, then with Finances, then with the Foreign affairs in the French Comité of the national Release of Algiers and in the Provisional government of the French Republic, in Paris. He chairs the Conférence of Brazzaville in 1944.

He is elected appointed Coast-of-North (today Coast-with Armor) as of 1945 and until in 1969 when he is not re-elected (for 51 votes). Although of sensitivity Christian-Democrat, it did not join MRP. It is initially UDSR, the party which it founded and of which he is president of 1946 with 1953, then seat under various center labels.

In 1951, it founds the Study committee and of connections of the Breton interests of which there remains president until in 1972.

He was elected:

president of the general advice of Coast-of-North,
president of the Public corporation regional (EPR) of Brittany, elected in January 1974, re-elected in February 1975 then in February 1976.
president of the commission of regional economic development (TO CODE).

Rene Pleven wrote in 1961 “the Future of Brittany” and expressed himself regularly in the Small Blue of Coast-of-North.

He was one of the most listened men of IVe République and enjoyed a great prestige among centrists who appreciated his European engagement.

Governmental functions

Police chief with the Colonies of the Government Charles de Gaulle (1) (from August 26th to September 10th, 1944)
Minister for the Colonies of the government Charles de Gaulle (1) (from September 10th to November 16th, 1944)
Minister for Finance of the government Charles de Gaulle (1) (from November 16th, 1944 to November 21st, 1945)
Minister for the Nation's economy of the government Charles de Gaulle (1) (from April 6th to November 21st, 1945)
Minister for Finance of the Gouvernement Charles de Gaulle (2) (from November 21st, 1945 to January 26th, 1946) It is opposed to Pierre Mendès France on the future economic and financial of the country. * Minister for the National defense of the Government Georges Bidault (2) (from October 29th, 1949 to July 2nd, 1950)
Minister for the National defense of the Government Henri Queuille (2) (from July 2nd to 12th 1950)
President of the Council (from July 12th, 1950 to March 10th, 1951)
Vice-president of the Council of the Government Henri Queuille (3) (from March 10th to August 11th, 1951)
President of the Council (from August 11th, 1951 to January 20th, 1952) As president of the Council, it launches the European Community of Defense (CED) and the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC). He manages to make ratify the latter.
Minister for the National defense of the Government Antoine Pinay (from March 8th, 1952 to January 8th, 1953)
Minister for the National defense and the Armed forces of the Government Rene Mayer (from January 8th to June 28th, 1953)
Minister for the National defense and the Armed forces of the governments Joseph Laniel (from June 28th, 1953 to June 19th, 1954) It must face the degradation of the situation in Indo-China .
Foreign Minister of the Government Pierre Pflimlin (from May 14th to June 1st, 1958)
Minister of Justice, Minister for the Justice of the Government Jacques Chaban-Delmas (from June 22nd, 1969 to July 6th, 1972)
Minister of Justice, Minister for the Justice of the Government Pierre Messmer (1) (from July 6th, 1972 to March 15th, 1973) Rejoined with the candidature of Georges Pompidou in 1969, it makes adopt the Anti-riot law.

Decorations

• Companion of the Release - decree of May 20th, 1943 • Commander of the Maritime Merit • Large Cross about the British Empire • Large Cross about Orange-Nassau (Netherlands) • Large Officer about Léopold (Belgium) • Large Cross of Dannebrog (Denmark) • Large Cross of the Merit of the Republic Italian • Large Cross of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco) • Large Cross of the Million elephants (Laos)

Quotation

“ We read time with other that this war must end in what is called a stamping from the colonial people. In large colonial France, there are neither people to free nor racial discriminations to be abolished. There are populations which feel French and which want to take and to which it France wants to give an increasingly big part in the life and the democratic institutions of the French community. There are populations which we intend to lead, stage by stage, with the personality, for ripest with the political franknesses but which intend to know of another independence only the independence of France .”

Rene Pleven, then Police chief with the Colonies, speech of January 30th, 1944 to the African Conference of Brazzaville.

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