Pierre-Henri Teitgen | |
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| Minister of State | |
| In office 22 January 1947 – 22 October 1947 | |
| President | Vincent Auriol |
| Prime Minister | Paul Ramadier |
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| Born | (1908-05-29)29 May 1908 |
| Died | 6 April 1997(1997-04-06) (aged 88) Paris, France |
| Political party | Popular Republican Movement |
| Alma mater | University of Nancy |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Pierre-Henri Teitgen (29 May 1908 – 6 April 1997) was a French lawyer, professor and politician.[1] Teitgen was born inRennes, Brittany. TakenPOW in 1940, he played a major role in theFrench Resistance.[2] Teitgen's father,Henri Teitgen (1882–1965), was a senior politician of thePopular Republican Movement.
A member ofFrench Parliament from 1945 to 1958 for Ille-et-Vilaine, Pierre-Henri was president of thePopular Republican Movement (Christian Democratic Party) from 1952 to 1956. He was Minister of Information in 1944 (one of the founders of the dailyLe Monde), Minister of Justice in 1945–1946 (in charge of the purges from government of theVichy regime's followers and ofNazi collaborators), Minister of Defence in 1947–48 inRobert Schuman's government at the time of the insurrectional strikes. In May 1948, he attended theCongress of The Hague and worked closely withRobert Schuman inSchuman Declaration and the start of theEuropean Community when he was Minister of Information and Civil service in 1949–1950. He was later Minister of Overseas in 1950. He was member of the Constitutional Committee in 1958. He was twiceDeputy Prime Minister in 1947–1948 and 1953–1954. He was member of the Consultative Constitutional Committee in 1958 but became a critic of de Gaulle's policies.[1]
He supported the Socialist Defferre in his attempt as candidate for presidency in 1965. In September 1976, he was appointed member of theEuropean Court of Human Rights. He had helped to create the court some 27 years earlier, in 1949, outlining its powers and the rights it should protect in a report for the Consultative Assembly of theCouncil of Europe. Teitgen died in Paris in 1997.[1][3]
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