Schuman, Robert

*		1886
†		1963

Beruf
French politician

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	1919-1940 Member of the French National Assembly and deputy of the Catholic Popular Democratic party
	1940 Undersecretary of state for refugees
	arrested by the German Gestapo in September 1940 and confined at Neustadt
	1942 escapes and joins the French Resistance
	1945-1962 Member of the French National Assembly
	1946/47 Minister of Finance
	1947/48 Prime Minister
	1948-1953 Foreign Minister
	1950 proposes the Schuman plan for pooling the coal and steel resources of West Europe, which comes to fruition in the European Coal and Steel Community
	1954 works extensively on a European Defence Community (EDC) which was rejected by the French Parliament