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Alliance between United States and Western Europe. From April 1945 until March 1946, he was based in Germany as the personal
assistant to General Clay, the Military Governor in occupied Germany. On his return to the US he took up a professorship in law at
Harvard University. From January 1950 through the end of 1951, he was Germany with the US High Commissioner as his legal adviser.
Under McCloy’s supervision, Bowie drafted the anti-cartel legislation that dismantled the German coal and steel monopolies in the Ruhr.
In 1952 Bowie returned to Harvard and continued his consultancy on the drafting of Western Germany’s Constitution. During this period,
he was involved with the negotiations in Paris on the ECSC and the EDC. From May 1953 to August 1957, during the first Eisenhower
administration, he was Director of policy planning. He returned to Harvard in 1957 where he was put in charge of the Centre for
International Affairs. In the spring of 1960, he was asked by Secretary of State Herter to prepare a report on the next decade for the
Atlantic Community in preparation for a NATO meeting on this theme. On his return to Harvard he was asked by George Ball to take up
the position of Counsellor in the State Department in charge of European affairs. He remained there until the spring of 1968.
Name of interviewer
F. Duchêne
Date of recording
12/05/1987
Transcript
pdf format, 82 pages
Interview language
EN
Cited persons
Gaulle,Charles De McCloy,John Monnet,Jean Adenauer,Konrad Alphand,Hervé Hallstein,Walter Tomlinson,Tommy Isenbergh,Max
Spinelli,Altiero
Topics Pages
education, professional career 1-3
Paris Treaty: United States of America: restrictive trade practice: Ruhr 3-8,15-27,76-78
Transatlantic relations: 1945-1973 12-14,49-51,71-73
Paris Treaty: international negotiations: Federal Republic of Germany / France / United States of America 28-30,74-76,78-80
European Defence Community: United States of America 31-44,81-82
European Defence Community: European Federalist Movement 35-36,64-71
EAEC Treaty: United States of America: nuclear safety 45-49,51-56
Transatlantic relations: Fouchet Plan / NATO: 1960-1962 56-61
Transatlantic relations: Elysée Treaty 61-63
INT765 - Braun, Fernand
from The European Commission memories collection
Date of birth
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Place of birth
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Nationality
LU
Fernand Braun étudie durant la guerre à l'université de Luxembourg et fait l'école des Sciences politiques à Paris. Il fonde les Nouvelles
Jeunesses Socialistes à Luxembourg dont il devient le secrétaire général à 22 ans puis entame la carrière de journaliste (Tageblatt, Radio
Luxembourg, Agence économique et financière, Associated Press, etc). C'est à cette époque qu'il fait connaissance de Michel Rasquin,
journaliste au Tageblat, engagé avec lui dans la création du Mouvement européen et du Mouvement socialiste des États-Unis d'Europe à
Luxembourg. Quand Michel Rasquin est nommé membre de la Commission de la Communauté économique européenne, il fait de Fernand
Braun son chef de cabinet (1958). Après le décès de son commissaire, Fernand Braun passe au secrétariat général comme chef de
division, chargé notamment des rapports annuels généraux de la Commission (1959). Il devient ensuite chef de la division 3 ('Relations
avec les institutions des Communautés et les assemblées européennes'). En 1962, il est nommé directeur de la direction D à la direction
générale du Marché intérieur ('Industrie, artisanat et commerce'). En 1968, il est promu conseiller principal à la direction générale des
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