Pierre Krier

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Pierre Krier (March 5, 1885 - January 20, 1947 ) was a Luxembourg politician.

Life and activity

Krier was a craftsman and engine driver by training . In 1916 he became editor of the weekly newspaper of the Luxembourg social democracy, Die Schmiede . In September of the same year he helped found the first socialist trade union in Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Metalworkers' Association (LMAV).

On May 30, 1918, Krieg was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Canton of Esch on the electoral list of the Social Democrats . From 1924 to 1937 he was also a member of the Luxembourg City Council .

From July 1919 on, Krier held the post of General Secretary of the Free Trade Unions in Luxembourg. At the same time he was editor of the organ of the same, the journal Der Proletarian . From 1925 he was a delegate at the International Labor Office in Geneva.

On November 5, 1937, Krier was appointed Luxembourg Minister of Labor in the Dupong-Krier government, with Pierre Dupong as head of government. This office, in which he was the first socialist minister in a Luxembourg government, he retained until his death in 1947, where he held it from 1940 to 1945 as a member of the Luxembourg government in exile in London.

Krier was married to the women's rights activist Lily Becker-Krier .

Fonts

  • Luxembourg under German Occupation , 1942

literature

  • Lily Krier-Becker: Pierre Krier. A picture of life , Luxembourg 1957.
  • Gast Mannes: Luxembourgish avant-garde: on European cultural transfer in the field of tension between literature, politics and art between 1916 and 1922 , 2007, p. 409.