Etienne Hirsch
Étienne Hirsch (born January 24, 1901 in Paris ; † May 17, 1994 ibid) was a French mining engineer and politician.
Life
Hirsch came from a middle-class Jewish family and studied at a mountain college; then he worked in the chemical industry.
Before the German Wehrmacht he fled France first to London and later became active in the Resistance under the cover name Commandant Bernard . From 1943 he worked with Jean Monnet in Algiers .
After the end of the war, Hirsch was involved in drawing up the Schuman Plan and in 1952 took over the management of the Commissariat général du Plan . From 1959 to 1962 he headed the European Atomic Energy Community . From 1964 to 1972 he was President of the Union of European Federalists .
literature
- Etienne Hirsch , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1994 from August 29, 1994, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Biographical note on the Federal Government website
- Obituary New York Times (English)
- Biographical presentation in the Historical Archives of the European Union (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: eui.eu
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SURNAME | Hirsch, Etienne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1901 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1994 |
Place of death | Paris |