Pierre Frieden (28 October 1892 – 23 February 1959)Thewes, Guy
"Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché depuis 1848."
Service information et presse. Luxembourg: Imprimerie Centrale, 2011. was a

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and

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. He was the 17th

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, serving for eleven months, from 29 March 1958 until his death, on 23 February 1959. He also served as Interior Minister from 1951. Frieden was born in 1892 in Mertert. From 1912 to 1916 he studied philosophy and literature in Luxembourg city and in Freiburg, Zürich, Geneva and Munich. From 1916 he taught secondary school philosophy, Latin and French in Esch-sur-Alzette, from 1919 until 1940 in the Lycée classique de Diekirch, the

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and in the ''Cours supérieurs''. During the

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, from 18 September until 4 November 1942 he was interned in

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. In 1944, after the liberation of Luxembourg, he became Minister for Education, Culture and Science under

Pierre Dupong Pierre Dupong (1 November 1885 – 23 December 1953)Thewes, Guy"Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché depuis 1848." Service information et presse. Luxembourg: Imprimerie Centrale, 2011. was a Luxembourgish politician and statesman. He was the 16th ...

. From 14 December 1945 to 15 July 1948 he was a member of the

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. He returned to his post as Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the government of

Joseph Bech Joseph Bech (17 February 1887 – 8 March 1975)Thewes, Guy"Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché depuis 1848." Service information et presse. Luxembourg: Imprimerie Centrale, 2011. was a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer. He was the 15th Prime Mi ...

, who became Prime Minister after Pierre Dupong's death in 1953. He was also Minister for Families and the Interior. On 29 March 1958 he became Prime Minister. "Premier Resigns", Reuters report in ''Spokane (Washington) Spokesman-Review'', March 27, 1958. From the article, "Joseph Bech, 71, premier of Luxembourg, today handed in his government's resignation... Pierre Frieden, minister of education and interior, will take over the premiership." Only a year later, in 1959, he died in Zürich. He was married to Madeleine Kinnen, herself a politician and government minister.

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