Walter Hallstein lived from 1901 to 1982 and was a German legal academic, diplomat and statesman. He became one of Germany youngest law professors at age twenty nine during the Weimar Republic before serving as a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht in France during the Second World War, after which he was held as a prisoner of war. Returning to academia after the war, he was recruited into diplomacy in 1950 and became a key architect of European integration, helping to establish the European Coal and Steel Community and negotiating the Treaty of Rome. He served as the first president of the European Economic Community Commission from 1958 to 1967, a tenure that ended after his push for federal European structures clashed with French President Charles de Gaulle more intergovernmental approach in the Empty Chair Crisis.
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RoleAcademic, diplomat and statesman 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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Why did Walter Hallstein clash with Charles de Gaulle?
The two disagreed over how far European integration should go, a dispute that peaked in the empty chair crisis.
Hallstein led the Commission of the European Economic Community and pressed for deeper integration. In the mid-1960s the conflict between the Commission and President de Gaulle over the right approach to integration culminated in the empty chair crisis. The West German government wanted to secure another term for Hallstein, but it ultimately backed down under French pressure.
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Hallstein began his academic career in the 1920s Weimar Republic and became Germany's youngest law professor in 1930, at the age of 29.
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Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 - 29 March 1982) was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first president of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
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From 1941 to 1944, Hallstein lectured at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he was Director of the Institute for Comparative Law and Economic Law.
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Wikidata Q159995, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1901
Wikidata Q159995, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1901-11-17
Wikidata Q159995, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1982
Wikidata Q159995, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1982-03-29
Wikidata Q159995, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Mainz
Wikidata Q159995, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Stuttgart
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