Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman Biography and Timeline

Birth of Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman

Birth of Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman, in Luxembourg of a German national father

Citizenship

After the First World War, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France and Schuman became a French citizen in 1919

Election

First elected as Deputy to Parliament on a regional list, and later serving as the Deputy for Thionville until 1958

Arrest of Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman

Arrested for acts of resistance and protest against Nazi methods. He was interrogated by the Gestapo but thanks to the intervention of a German lawyer, he was saved from being sent to Dachau. Transferred as a personal prisoner of Gauleiter Joseph Buerckel, he escaped in 1942 and re-joined the French Resistance

Member of Government

Because of his expertise on Germany, Schuman was called to become a member of Paul Reynaud's wartime Government, in charge of the refugees

Arrest of Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman

Arrested for acts of resistance and protest against Nazi methods. He was interrogated by the Gestapo but thanks to the intervention of a German lawyer, he was saved from being sent to Dachau. Transferred as a personal prisoner of Gauleiter Joseph Buerckel, he escaped in 1942 and re-joined the French Resistance

Role range: 1939-1945

Mouvement Republican Populaire (MRP)

Helps found the Mouvement Republican Populaire

Minister of Finance

Appointed Minister of Finance

Role range: 1946-1946

Strike

1st day of National strikes throughout the Winter of 1947-48

Role range: 1947-1948

Prime Minister of France

Appointed Prime Minister of France

Role range: 1947-1948

Council of Europe

During the last days of his first administration, Schuman's Government proposed plans that later resulted in the Council of Europe and the European Community single market

Role range: 1947-1948

Council of Europe

Schuman's government promoted post-war European cooperation, including initiatives that contributed to the Council of Europe and later supranational integration.

Role range: 1947-1948

Foreign Secretary of France

Appointed Foreign Secretary

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

During the last days of his first administration, Schuman's Government proposed plans that later resulted in the Council of Europe and the European Community single market

Role range: 1947-1948

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Signs the Treaty establishing the NATO alliance. Schuman was instrumental in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Schuman also signed the Treaty of Washington for France

Role range: 1948-1952

Treaty of NATO

Signs the Treaty establishing the NATO alliance

Role range: 1948-1952

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Signs the Treaty establishing the NATO alliance. Schuman was instrumental in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Schuman also signed the Treaty of Washington for France

Role range: 1948-1952

Treaty of North Atlantic

Participation of the United States was thought necessary both to counter the military power of the USSR and to prevent the revival of nationalist militarism, so talks for a new military alliance results in the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C. on 4 April 1949. It included the five Treaty of Brussels states plus the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

As French Foreign Minister, Schuman supported the creation of the Council of Europe, whose Statute was signed in London on 5 May 1949.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

At the signing of it's Statutes at St James's Palace, London, 5 May 1949, the founding States agreed to defining the frontiers of Europe based on the principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms that Schuman enunciated.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

He also announced a coming supranational union for Europe that saw light as the European Coal and Steel Community and other such Communities within a Union framework of common law and democracy.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

Schuman continued advocating supranational European cooperation while serving as French Foreign Minister.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

The Council of Europe and was created within the tight schedule Schuman had set.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

The Council of Europe was established in 1949 as part of the wider post-war movement toward European cooperation.

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

At the signing of it's Statutes at St James's Palace, London, 5 May 1949, the founding States agreed to defining the frontiers of Europe based on the principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms that Schuman enunciated.

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

He also announced a coming supranational union for Europe that saw light as the European Coal and Steel Community and other such Communities within a Union framework of common law and democracy.

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

The Council of Europe and was created within the tight schedule Schuman had set.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

At the signing of it's Statutes at St James's Palace, London, 5 May 1949, the founding States agreed to defining the frontiers of Europe based on the principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms that Schuman enunciated.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

He also announced a coming supranational union for Europe that saw light as the European Coal and Steel Community and other such Communities within a Union framework of common law and democracy.

Role range: 1948-1952

Council of Europe

The Council of Europe and was created within the tight schedule Schuman had set.

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

At the signing of it's Statutes at St James's Palace, London, 5 May 1949, the founding States agreed to defining the frontiers of Europe based on the principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms that Schuman enunciated.

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

He also announced a coming supranational union for Europe that saw light as the European Coal and Steel Community and other such Communities within a Union framework of common law and democracy.

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

The Council of Europe and was created within the tight schedule Schuman had set.

Role range: 1948-1952

Military Aid Agreement at Paris

Requests military aid from the USA to defend Asia against Communism

Role range: 1948-1952

Schuman Declaration

Schuman publicly proposed pooling French and German coal and steel production under a common High Authority.

Role range: 1948-1953

Schuman Plan

Proposes a community to integrate the coal and steel industries of Europe, the two elements necessary to make weapons of war

Role range: 1948-1952

Schuman Plan

Schuman proposed pooling French and German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, opening the way to the ECSC.

Role range: 1948-1952

Declaration of Schuman

The "Schuman declaration", considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union, later known as Europe Day

Role range: 1948-1952

European Coal and Steel Community

Proposes the creation of the EuropeanCoal & Steel Community, dubbed "St Schumans Day"

Role range: 1948-1952

Schuman Declaration

The French Government agreed to the Schuman Declaration which invited the Germans and all other European countries to manage their coal and steel industries jointly and democratically in Europe's first supranational Community with its five foundational institutions.

Role range: 1948-1952