Jean de Lipkowski

Jean de Lipkowski   (politician)
Born	25 December 1920 Paris, France
Died	20 September 1997 (Age 76) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Ethnicity	Polish
Alma mater	Lycée Henri IV, Sorbonne, Sciences Po
Partner	Brigitte Friang
Parents	• Henri de Lipkowski • Irène de Lipkowski
Party	Union pour la nouvelle République, Union des démocrates pour la République, Rassemblement pour la République
French diplomat and Gaullist politician who attended the 1964 Bilderberg meeting.  France/Minister/Cooperation In office 12 January 1976 - 25 August 1976  Member of the European Parliament In office 1962 - 1968 Bilderberger  State Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs In office 10 July 1968 - 27 May 1974 Employer France/Ministry/Foreign Affairs  Mayor of Royan In office 1965 - 1977  Member of the French Parliament  In office 23 June 1988 - 21 April 1997  Member of the French Parliament  In office 2 April 1986 - 14 May 1988 Preceded by Jean de Lipkowski  Member of the French Parliament  In office 3 April 1978 - 1 April 1986 Preceded by Maurice Herzog Succeeded by Jean de Lipkowski, Jean-Marie Le Pen  Member of the French Parliament  In office 2 April 1973 - 12 May 1973  Member of the French Parliament  In office 13 December 1971 - 12 January 1972  Member of the French Parliament  In office 6 December 1962 - 12 August 1968  Member of the French Parliament  In office 19 January 1956 - 5 December 1958

Jean de Lipkowski was a French politician of Polish origin. He was notably Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1968 to 1974. He attended the 1964 Bilderberg meeting.

Background

He was son of the industrialist Henri de Lipkowski], hero of the First World War, deported and died in Buchenwald in 1944, and Irene de Lipkowski, the only elected woman of the RPF.

He studied law and obtained a law degree at the University of Paris. He then studied at the Free School of Political sciences.

However, he had to interrupt his studies after the German occupation in the Second World War and initially fled to London. After his return, he signed a student manifesto on 11 November 1940 and joined General Charles de Gaulle's Forces françaises libres (FFF) as a corporal under the pseudonym "Jean de Ligny". After several combat missions as a parachutist, he participated in the liberation of Lyon on September 3, 1944.

Diplomatic career

After the liberation from the German occupation and his return to Paris, de Lipkowski began training as a consular attaché on 15 November 1945 and, after completing his studies, initially found employment in the Asia and Oceania Department at the Quai d'Orsay, the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then worked at the Consulate in Nanjing and as a third secretary in the Far East Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before being an attaché at the Embassy in China between 1947 and 1949. After that, he was again an employee of the Asia and Oceania Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1952, as well as vice-consul in Madrid between 1952 and January 1954.

He later became deputy head of the cabinet of General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, who became the general resident in Tunisia in November 1954. He took part in the negotiations for the independence of Tunisia and then went to Rabat in September 1955 with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, after the latter had been appointed general resident in Morocco on August 31, 1955. After the dismissal of General Boyer de Latour shortly afterwards on 9 November 1955, he became second-class counsellor at the Embassy in the Soviet Union.

He became a specialist in Arab issues.

Political career

However, Jean de Lipkowski returned to France shortly afterwards and became a member of the National Assembly for the first time in the elections of January 2, 1956 as a candidate of the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste (PRRRS) of Pierre Mendès France in the first constituency of the Département Seine-et-Oise and belonged to it until December 8, 1958.

At the beginning of June 1958, he founded the Gaullist group Centre de la réforme républicaine (CRR) with Henri Frenay, Paul Barberot, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Philippe Dechartre. In the elections on 30 November 1958, he ran for re-election for the CRR in the ninth constituency of the Seine-et-Oise Département. However, he suffered a defeat against the candidate of the Parti communiste français (PCF) Robert Ballanger and thus resigned from the National Assembly.

In 1956, he drafted a plan consisting of splitting the French colony of Algeria by a statute of independence for the area of Constantine.

On December 6, 1962, he was again a member of the National Assembly for the Union pour la Nouvelle République-Union Démocratique du Travail (UNR-UDT) in the Charente-Maritime Département. At the same time, he was a Member of the European Parliament from 1962 to 1968 and the mayor of Royan for the first time between 1965 and 1977. In the Charente-Maritime department, he was elected a member of the National Assembly for the Gaullists on July 11, 1968. On 21.

On 12 August 1968, he resigned his parliamentary mandate after being appointed to the Couve de Murville cabinet as State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 20 June 1969 and 5 July 1972, he also held the post of State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following cabinet of Chaban-Delma.

He became a member of the National Assembly for the UDR again on 13 December 1971 in the Charente-Maritime Département, but resigned this mandate on 12 January 1972 due to his office as Secretary of State, a procedure he repeated several times over the next few years.

As successor to Pierre Abelin, de Lipkowski was appointed Minister of Cooperation to the Jacques Chirac Cabinet on 12 January 1976 and belonged to it until the end of his term of office on 25 August 1976.

On April 21, 1967, he was the referee of the last official duel that took place in France, the one between the deputies aston Defferre and René Ribiere.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1964	20 March 1964	22 March 1964	US Virginia Williamsburg	A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.

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