Die Gründerväter der Europäischen Union
Konrad Adenauer (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
Letter from Konrad Adenauer to Robert Schuman (Paris, 19 April 1951)
TextOn the day after the signing of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in Paris on 18 April 1951, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sends a letter to Robert Schuman in which he expresses his hope that the Schuman Plan might become the basis for Franco–German reconciliation.
Joseph Bech (Luxemburg)
Cartoon by Simon on the ratification of the ECSC Treaty by Luxembourg (20 May 1952)
Bild‘The Schuman Plan is home and dry’. On 20 May 1952, in the Luxembourg Socialist daily newspaper Tageblatt, the cartoonist Simon welcomes the commitment of the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech, to ratify the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Joseph Bech
PassJohann Willem Beyen (Niederlande)
Johan Willem Beyen
BildAlcide de Gasperi (Italien)
Alcide De Gasperi
PassAlcide de Gasperi
BildJean Monnet (Frankreich)
Jean Monnet, Erinnerungen eines Europäers: Auszug über die Idee einer europäischen Kohle- und Stahlgemeinschaft
TextAm Sonntag, den 16. April 1950 trifft sich Jean Monnet mit Paul Reuter und Etienne Hirsch in Montfort-l'Amaury. Gemeinsam entwickeln sie die Ideen Monnets weiter. Die erste schriftliche Version des Projekts über die Zusammenlegung von Kohle und Stahl entsteht. 25 Jahre später erinnert sich Jean Monnet an diesen Tag.
Jean Monnet
BildJean Monnet (Frankreich)
Jean Monnet, Les États-Unis d'Europe ont commencé
TextJean Monnet recalls the beginnings of the ECSC, with its common institutions and its desire to be an open Community.
Robert Schuman (Frankreich)
Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgien)
Paul-Henri Spaak
PassSpeech by Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly (Strasbourg, 9 March 1953)
TextOn 9 March 1953, during a formal sitting at the Maison de l’Europe in Strasbourg, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, officially hands over the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community to the Foreign Ministers of the Six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Paul van Zeeland (Belgien)
Paul van Zeeland
PassSigning of the ECSC Treaty (Paris, 18 April 1951)
BildGroup photograph taken at the signing of the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. From left to right: Paul van Zeeland (B), Joseph Bech (L), Joseph Meurice (B), Carlo Sforza (I), Robert Schuman (F), Konrad Adenauer (BRD), Dirk Stikker (NL) and Johannes van den Brink (NL).
Letter from Konrad Adenauer to Robert Schuman (Paris, 19 April 1951)
TextOn the day after the signing of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in Paris on 18 April 1951, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sends a letter to Robert Schuman in which he expresses his hope that the Schuman Plan might become the basis for Franco–German reconciliation.