Pierre-Charles Krieg | |
Successor1: | Michel Giraud |
Birth Date: | 18 January 1922 |
Predecessor2: | Jean Legaret |
Termend2: | 1 April 1986 |
Termstart2: | 25 November 1962 |
Office2: | Member of the first constituency of Paris |
Predecessor1: | Michel Giraud |
Office: | Mayor of the 4th arrondissement of Paris |
Termend1: | 1992 |
Termstart1: | 1988 |
Office1: | President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France |
Successor: | Lucien Finel |
Termend: | 14 June 1997 |
Termstart: | 13 March 1983 |
Birth Place: | Lille |
Death Place: | Paris |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | RPR |
Pierre-Charles Krieg (born 18 January 1922 in Lille,[1] died 6 June 1998) was a French politician and lawyer.
As a student, he participated in the parade of 11 November 1940 on the Champs-Élysées, braving the German occupation.[2] [3] He was arrested and deported for entering the Resistance.[4] [5] He escaped in 1943 and joined RPF under Charles de Gaulle in 1947.[6]
After becoming a lawyer, he was also a member of the first constituency of Paris from 1962 to 1986.[7] He was elected chairman of the Law Commission in 1972.
He entered the Council of Paris in 1971[8] and became the mayor of the 4th arrondissement of Paris between 1983 and 1997.[9] [10]
Member of the Council of Europe as the representative of France from January 1969 to 19 May 1972,[11] then from 2 July 1973 to 30 June 1975, he then sat in the first European Parliament elected by universal suffrage.
He chaired the regional council of Île-de-France between 1988 and 1992.
For health reasons, he resigned from the mayoralty on 4 June 1997, ceding his post to Lucien Finel (UDF).[12]