René Pleven

René Pleven (April 1901 – January 13, 1993) was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic. A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement. He served as prime minister several times in the early 1950s, where his most notable contribution was the introduction of the Pleven Plan, which called for a European Defense Community between France, Italy, West Germany, and the Benelux countries.

Pleven's First Ministry, 12 July 1950 – 10 March 1951

• René Pleven – President of the Council
• Robert Schuman – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Guy Mollet – Minister for the Council of Europe
• Jules Moch – Minister of National Defense
• Henri Queuille – Minister of the Interior
• Maurice Petsche – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
• Edgar Faure – Minister of Budget
• Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security
• René Mayer – Minister of Justice
• Gaston Defferre – Minister of Merchant Marine
• Pierre-Olivier Lapie – Minister of National Education
• Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Pierre Pflimlin – Minister of Agriculture
• François Mitterrand – Minister of Overseas France
• Antoine Pinay – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Pierre Schneiter – Minister of Public Health and Population
• Eugène Claudius-Petit – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning
• Charles Brune – Minister of Posts
• Albert Gazier – Minister of Information
• Jean Letourneau – Minister of Relations with Partner States
• Paul Giacobbi – Minister without Portfolio

Pleven's Second Ministry, 11 August 1951 – 20 January 1952

• René Pleven – President of the Council
• Georges Bidault – Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense
• René Mayer – Vice President of the Council and Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
• Robert Schuman – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Charles Brune – Minister of the Interior
• Pierre Courant – Minister of Budget
• Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Industry
• Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security
• Edgar Faure – Minister of Justice
• André Morice – Minister of Merchant Marine
• André Marie – Minister of National Education
• Emmanuel Temple – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Paul Antier – Minister of Agriculture
• Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Overseas France
• Antoine Pinay – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Public Health and Population
• Eugène Claudius-Petit – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning
• Joseph Laniel – Minister of Posts
• Robert Buron – Minister of Information
• Pierre Pflimlin – Minister of Commerce and External Economic Relations
• Jean Letourneau – Minister of State
• Maurice Petsche – Minister of State
• Henri Queuille – Minister of State

Changes

• 16 September 1951 – Minister of State Maurice Petsche dies.
• 4 October 1951 – Joseph Laniel becomes a Minister of State. Roger Duchet succeeds Laniel as Minister of Posts.
• 21 November 1951 – Camille Laurens succeeds Antier as Minister of Agriculture.