Lambert Schaus

Lambert Schaus (born January 18, 1908 in Luxembourg ; † August 10, 1976 ) was a Luxembourg European politician.

Life

Schaus was born the son of a jeweler in Luxembourg. He studied law primarily in Paris , but also spent a semester in Bonn . In 1932, Schaus was appointed lawyer at the Luxembourg Court of Appeal . Even before the Second World War , Schaus was also active in local politics as a Luxembourg city council.

When Schaus refused to join the legal guardian association controlled from Germany and thereby support the annexation of Luxembourg , he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and interned in the Steinigen labor camp, where he had to build the Reichsautobahn . A little later he was used as a slave laborer in the district office of Cochem , and later in the Sudetenland and the Black Forest .

After returning home in 1946, he became Minister of Economics and the Army for the Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei . He was thus responsible for both the difficult reconstruction and the army , the Grand Duchy's first standing army . Lambert Schaus left the government in 1948 and was a member of the Luxembourg City Council again until 1952. In that year he first went to Brussels as an envoy extraordinary, and from 1955 as his country's ambassador to Belgium . In this role he played a key role in the development of European integration. He headed the Luxembourg commissions negotiating the EEC and Euratom treaties.

On June 18, 1958, Schaus was appointed to the first EEC Commission as Commissioner for Transport, Internal Market and Agriculture . In doing so, he endeavored in particular to establish a common transport policy for the EEC countries and to open up national markets for traffic and transport companies from other countries.

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• Biography in the Luxembourg authors' lexicon