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Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (French 5 February 1907 – 27 June 2000) was a French Christian democratic politician who served

as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958,

before being replaced by Charles de

Gaulle during the crisis of

that year. Pflimlin

was born in Roubaix

in the Nord department. A lawyer and a member of

the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), he was

elected deputy of département Bas Rhin in 1945. With his personal roots in Alsace,

Pflimlin numbered among his MRP party colleagues the for both, relations with Germany played an important role

in their political thinking. He held some governmental offices during the

Fourth Republic, notably as Minister of Agriculture (1947–1949 and 1950–1951)

and as Minister of Economy and Finance (1955–1956 and 1957–1958). On 13 May 1958, the French National Assembly

approved his nomination as Prime Minister. But the same day, riots took place

in Algiers. The French generals in Algeria feared he would arrange for a negotiated solution with the

Algerian nationalists giving them control of Algeria. They refused to recognize

his cabinet. At this point the leading politicians deserted him, including Guy Mollet, Vincent Auriol, and Antoine Pinay. The crisis brought Charles de Gaulle as Prime Minister on 1 June.