Paul-Marie Pons, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French naval engineer and civil servant
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Place of Birth: Longwy, Grand Est, France
About Paul-Marie Pons
- Paul-Marie Pons (Born 24 June 1904 Longwy: died 24 October 1966 Paris) was a French naval engineer who became a senior civil servant.
- He is remembered for the Pons Plan which restructured the French auto-industry in the second half of the 1940s. Pons was educated at the prestigious École Polytechnique at Palaiseau on the southern fringes of Paris.
- After this he pursued a successful career in engineering and management. In 1927 he married Michèlle Duchez: the marriage was childless. After the Second World War Pons was appointed to the Ministry of Industrial Production under the direction of the minister, Robert Lacoste.
- Robert Lacoste had himself been a senior civil servant before the war and had been a member of the French Resistance during the war, after which he re-emerged as a Socialist Deputy and a leading national politician.
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