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ROBERT SCHUMAN'S LIFE HISTORY Thursday 29th July 2010
1886
29 juin : 29 June: Birth in Clausen, a suburb of Luxembourg

1900
Father, Jean-Pierre Schuman dies

1896-1903
Secondary education at the Athénée - Luxembourg

1904
Baccalauréat at the Lycée Impérial - Metz

1904-1910
Read law at the Universities of Berlin, Munich, Bonn and Strasbourg

1911
Mother, née Eugénie Duren dies

1912
Final examination in Strasbourg, called to the bar in Alsace Lorraine - opens own legal offices/Metz

1913
German Catholic Congress (Katholikentag) in Metz

1914
Called up for service in an auxiliary service of the German army - Metz.

1915
Seconded to the Civil Service in Boulay.

1919
Elected MP for Moselle, Appointed to the Consultative Council of Alsace Lorraine in Strasbourg (President of the Council for General Affairs linked to administration, legislation and security)

1920
Nominated for the Consultative Council of Alsace Lorraine in Strasbourg (President of the Council in charge of general issues linked to administration, legislation and security).

1924
Re-elected as MP for Moselle

1928
Elected MP for the constituency of Thionville East.

1929
Member of the Finance Commission (until 1939, Secretary of this Commission from 1932-36).

1932
Re-elected MP for the constituency of Thionville East

1936
Elected General Councillor for the Cattenom region

1940
Nominated Under Secretary for the Presidency of the Council for Refugees under the Raynaud and Pétain governments (March to July) ; 14th September arrested by the Gestapo.

1941
13th April confined to house arrest in Neustadt (Palatinate).

1942
1st August: escape from Neustadt. November: goes underground.

1944
September - Returns to Moselle, Elected MP for Moselle

1945
Elected MP for the Moselle. Member of the Finance Commission (November 1945- May 1946)

1946
Re-elected MP for the Moselle. Member of the Finance Commission.

1947
Finance Ministry under the Ramadier Government (January to November) President of the Council (24th November to 19th July 1948).

1948
Appointed Foreign Minister

1951
Re-elected MP for Moselle.

1955
President of the European Movement (1955-1961).

1956
Re-elected MP for Moselle.

1958
President of the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg (1958-1960)
Speech by Robert Schuman on 19 March 1958

1960
At the end of his term in office the European Parliament awarded him the title "Father of Europe".

1962
Retirement from political life.

1963
4th September : Robert Schuman dies in Scy-Chazelles

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