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

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: eui.eu