Daniel Hoeffel
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Daniel Hoeffel (born January 23, 1929 in Strasbourg , Department Bas-Rhin ) is a former French politician from Alsace of the Center des démocrates sociaux (CDS), the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) and most recently the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), which among other member of the Senate , and also from 1980 to 1981 was Minister of transport.
Life
Mayor and Senator
Daniel Hoeffel, great-nephew of the Reichstag member of the Free Conservative Party Johannes Hoeffel and older brother of the clergyman Michel Hoeffel, studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg (IEP de Strasbourg), from which he graduated. His political career began for the Center of Social Democrats (CDS) in the local politics and was among other things, succeeding Robert Hoeffel from 1965 until his resignation in 2008 Mayor of Handschuheim , after Dominique Hoeffel Wedge became his successor. On September 25, 1977 he became a member of the Senate for the first time , to which he was a member for the Bas-Rhin department until May 5, 1978. At the beginning of his membership in the Senate he was first a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces (Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces armées) and then from October 18, 1977 to May 5, 1978 a member of the Committee on Finance, Budget control and national accounts of the nation (Commission des finances, du contrôle budgétaire et des comptes économiques de la nation) .
State Secretary and Minister
On May 4, 1978, Hoeffel first took over the post of State Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family (Secrétaire d'État auprès du ministre de la santé et de la famille) in the Barre III cabinet and held this post until October 2, 1980. 1979 He also became a member of the General Council of the Bas-Rhin department as the successor to Robert Grossmann and represented the canton of Strasbourg-7 until his replacement by Jean-Philippe Maurer in 1998 . At the same time, he succeeded André Bord as President of the General Council of the Bas-Rhin department and held this office until 1998, when Philippe Richert became his successor there. During this time he was also active as President of the Association for the Development of Information Technology in Rhône-Alpes (Association pour le développement de l'informatique en Rhône-Alpes) .
In the course of a restructuring of the Barre III cabinet, Daniel Hoeffel replaced Joël Le Theule as Minister of Transport (Ministre des Transports) on October 2, 1980 and held this ministerial office until May 14, 1981. After leaving the cabinet, he was appointed on September 27 In 1981 he was re-elected as a member of the Senate for the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) in the Bas-Rhin department and was now a member of the Senate after his re-election on September 28, 1986 until April 29, 1993. During his recent membership in the Senate, he was a member of the Legal Committee (Commission des lois) between October 8, 1981 and May 29, 1993 .
Assistant Minister
On March 30, 1993, Hoeffel was appointed Minister for Spatial Planning and Local Authorities in the Balladur Cabinet to the Minister of the Interior and Spatial Planning (Ministre délégué auprès du ministre d'État, ministre de l'intérieur et de l'aménagement du territoire, chargé de l'aménagement du territoire et des collectivités locales) and held this office until May 11, 1995.
After leaving the cabinet, Hoeffel was re-elected to the Senate on September 24, 1995 and was a member of the Senate until September 30, 2004 as a representative of the Bas-Rhin department. He then became a member of the Legal Affairs Committee again on October 5, 1995, and from 2003 of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation, General Suffrage, Legal Orders and General Administration (Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de législation, du suffrage universel, du Règlement et d'administration générale) . In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 1997 the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . As mayor of Handschuheim, from December 16, 1999 to 2008, he was also President of the Communauté de communes Ackerland , an inter-communal interest group of the communities of Furdenheim , Handschuheim, Hurtigheim , Ittenheim and Quatzenheim . He was also elected Vice President of the Senate on October 3, 2001. After he was not re-elected, his membership in the Senate ended on September 30, 2004. As successor to Jean-Paul Delevoye , he also became President of the Association of Mayors of France AMF (Association des maires de France) , which he held until his replacement by Jacques Pélissard in 2004.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Barre III cabinet
- ↑ Barre III cabinet
- ^ France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 (rulers.org)
- ↑ Balladur Cabinet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoeffel, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (UDF), senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg , Bas-Rhin department |