Paul Collowald
Paul Collowald | |
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 Collowald in 2013 | |
| Born | 24 June 1923 |
| Died | 8 July 2025 (aged 102) Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Civil servant Journalist |
Paul Collowald (24 June 1923 – 8 July 2025) was a French civil servant and journalist.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Born in Wissembourg on 24 June 1923, Collowald made his professional debut in 1946 with the newspaper Le Nouvel Alsacien.[2] In 1952, he joined Le Monde as its Strasbourg correspondent for European and regional affairs.[3] The city had become the seat of the Council of Europe, the European Coal and Steel Community, the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community, and the European Political Community.[4] His career in the European sphere began in 1958 in Luxembourg with the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom.[2] The following year, he moved to Brussels at the request of Robert Marjolin, Vice-President of the Hallstein Commission, to work as his spokesperson.[5] In 1973, he became director-general of the European Commission's Directorate for Information.[3] He worked for the Commission for 25 years before moving to the European Parliament, working as President Pierre Pflimlin's cabinet director.[5]
Collowald died in the Brussels region on 8 July 2025, at the age of 102.[1]
Functions and mandates
[edit]- Honorary president of the Association Robert Schuman[6]
- Vice-President of the Centre européen Robert Schuman[7]
- Member of the Conseil de la Fondation Jean Monnet[8]
Biographies and memoirs
[edit]- J'ai vu naître l'Europe : De Strasbourg à Bruxelles le parcours d'un pionnier de la construction européenne (2014)[9][10]
- Paul Collowald, pionnier d'une Europe à unir. Une vie à dépasser les frontières (2018)[11][12]
Publications
[edit]- "D'azur et de joie: Contribution à l'histoire du drapeau et de l'hymne de l'Europe" (1999)[13]
- De la Déclaration Schuman (9 mai 1950) à la Déclaration de Laeken (15 décembre 2001) : Les mots qui font et défont l'Europe (2002)
- Pierre Pflimlin, Alsacien et Européen (with Alain Howiller, 2007)
- "14 juillet 1946 : Winston Churchill à Metz" (2016)[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Hommage à Paul Collowald". Savons l'Europe (in French). 10 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Paul Collowald". Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (in French).
- ^ a b "Biographie de Paul Collowald". La Croix (in French). 16 April 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ Dulphy, Anne; Manigand, Christine (3 July 2010). "Entretien avec Paul Collowald". Histoire@Politique (in French). Archived from the original on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ a b "INT707 - Collowald, Paul". European University Institute. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013.
- ^ "Bienvenue". Association Robert Schuman (in French).
- ^ "Visit of Paul Collowald, President of the Robert Schuman Association and Vice-President of the Robert Schuman European Centre, to Jean-Claude Juncker: exterior and handshake". European Commission.
- ^ "L'Europe et les médias (2014)". Fondation Jean Monnet (in French).
- ^ le Bussy, Olivier (30 November 2014). "Paul Collowald, Européen d'hier et d'aujourd'hui". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ Mahler, Thomas (9 May 2020). "A 97 ans, ce pionnier de l'Europe se souvient avec émotion de la déclaration Schuman". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ le Bussy, Olivier (14 January 2019). "Paul Collowald, une voix européenne". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ van Kote, Gilles (26 December 2018). "Informer sur l'Europe, le combat d'une vie". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ "Paul Collowald: D'azur et de joie - Contribution à l'histoire du drapeau et de l'hymne de l'Europe" dans Revue d'Alsace (1999)". Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (in French).
- ^ Deschamps, Étienne (28 June 2002). "Interview with Paul Collowald: the address delivered by Winston Churchill in Metz on 14 July 1946" (PDF). Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe. Retrieved 13 July 2025.