Pierre-Henri Teitgen

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Pierre-Henri Teitgen (born May 29, 1908 in Rennes , † April 6, 1997 in Paris ) was a French lawyer , professor and politician . The European Convention on Human Rights was created under his leadership .

biography

His father Henri Teitgen was the presiding judge of the Court of Appeal ("Cour d'appel") in Nancy before and towards the end of the Second World War . He went to the Collège Saint-Sigisbert in Nancy and studied law at the University of Nancy . In October 1934 he was at the age of 27 years for Doctor of Public Law at the University of Nancy doctorate . In 1935 he was appointed to a professorship at the Faculty of Law in Nancy and from 1946 to 1961 he held a law professorship in Rennes in addition to his political offices. In 1936 he founded the legal journal Droit Social (labor law) with his colleague Francis Menthon .

Teitgen was married to Jeanne Fonlupt, the daughter of a lawyer in Strasbourg, and had seven children with her.

Political life

MP

In the war years from 1940 onwards he played an important role in the Resistance against the German occupation. From 1945 to 1958 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Party of the Republican People's Movement ( Mouvement républicain populaire , MRP ) in the French parliament, from 1952 to 1956 he was its party leader.

minister

Teitgen was Minister of Information from November 9, 1944 to May 30, 1945 under Charles de Gaulle . During this time, at de Gaulle's instigation, he helped found the daily newspapers Le Monde in Paris and Ouest-France in Rennes . His father Henri Teitgen wrote articles for the Ouest-Eclair before the war. From June 30, 1945 to January 20, 1946 he was Minister of Justice, which he also held in the governments of Félix Gouin and Georges Bidault . His tasks in this office included the organization of the trials against the members of the Vichy regime as well as against the collaborators with the German occupiers. In the redesigned Paul Ramadier cabinet he was Minister of State from May 9 to October 22, 1947, before he was appointed Minister of Defense , which he also remained in the Robert Schuman cabinet on July 20, 1948, before he was under Bidault from October 28, 1949 to 24 June 1950 was again Minister of State and Commissioner for Information. In the Faure government he was finally Minister for the French overseas territories. During his ministerial career, he was deputy head of government three times, from January 28 to November 19, 1947 (Ramadier cabinet), from July 16, 1948 to August 26, 1948 ( André Marie cabinet ) and from June 28, 1953 to 12. June 1954 ( Joseph Laniel cabinet ).

The human rights convention

Pierre-Henri Teitgen was one of the leading figures of around 700 politicians who met in The Hague from 7 to 10 May 1948 to resolve the European Congress as a “manifestation of the European unification movement”. At the congress they called for the political unity of Europe, the creation of a Council of Europe and a European human rights convention .

The commission fired on May 10, 1948 in The Hague submitted a report to the Council of the European Movement International on February 25, 1949 in Brussels . Based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in December 1948, the decision of the conference in Brussels referred to this charter . An international legal committee chaired by Pierre-Henri Teitgens and reporting by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe worked out the claim that was fired at in The Hague.

The first plenary meeting of the Council of Europe took place on August 19, 1949. According to the wish of the President of the Committee of Ministers, the BV should place particular emphasis on the definition of fundamental rights in its work . However, Teitgen and Fyfe insisted on their idea of ​​first protecting the existing national fundamental rights internationally. The Legal and Administrative Committee met for the first time on August 22, 1949 for the preparatory work. Teitgen was appointed rapporteur and the former rapporteur of the international legal committee Fyfe was appointed chairman. As a justification for the renouncement of a codification, Teitgen cited that such a project could not be improvised, but must be the result of many years of legal exercise.

The committee ended its advisory work after 14 meetings on September 5, 1949 and Teitgen presented its results. On September 7th and 8th, 1949, the Teitgen report was discussed in the plenary session of the Consultative Assembly. Occasional fears have been expressed that this system of application of the respective national law by the Court of Justice with a vague international legal boundary would make the whole guarantee illusory. However, Teitgen prevailed, supported by other MPs who also wanted to achieve a result quickly.

Nine of the twelve fundamental rights of the Teitgen report were adopted by the plenary without comment. The ECHR is the fifth international treaty to be concluded within the framework of the Council of Europe. It was signed by most of the European states on November 4th 1950 in Rome.

Legal career

In 1958 he opposed de Gaulle's return to the presidency. In 1958 he lost his mandate for the Breton département Ille-et-Vilaine , which he had held since 1946. He then limited his ambitions to an academic career as a law professor at the University of Rennes and then in Paris, Sorbonne . He remained an influential politician in the Christian Democratic MRP and reviled the Fifth Republic as a “dictatorship”. In November 1977 he was appointed judge at the European Court of Human Rights and held this office until 1982.

Honors

Publications

  • The application of Community law through French case law. Brussels 1965
  • Administrative course in European law. Paris 1970
  • Community institutional law course. Structure and functioning of communities, Paris 1976
  • Origins, Objectives and Nature of the European Communities, Paris 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Curriculum vitae of Pierre-Henri Teitgen from the Assemblée nationale
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  2. ↑ Douglas Johnson: "Obituary: Pierre-Henri Teitgen" , The Independent , 10 April 1997
predecessor Office successor
François de Menthon Minister of Justice of France
May 30, 1945-18. December 1946 		Paul Ramadier

Yvon Delbos 		Defense Minister of France
October 22, 1947–26. July 1948
René Mayer
personal data
SURNAME Teitgen, Pierre-Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, professor and politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1997
Place of death Paris