What is Walter Hallstein?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name = Walter Hallstein |image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F004665-0003, Walter Hallstein.jpg |office = [[President of the European Commission]] |term_start = 7 January 1958 |term_end = 30 June 1967 |predecessor = Position established |successor = [[Jean Rey (politician)|Jean Rey]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1901|11|17|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Mainz]], [[German Empire]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1982|3|29|1901|11|17|df=y}} |death_place = [[Stuttgart]], [[West Germany]] |party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]] |alma_mater = [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelm University]] }} '''Walter Hallstein''' (17 November 1901 – 29 March 1982) was a [[Germans|German]] academic, diplomat, and politician. He was the first president of the [[European Commission|Commission]] of the [[European Economic Community]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cvce.eu/content/publication/2008/9/22/a1adea08-b8ee-4e00-87c8-2fe9bc18c176/publishable_en.pdf|title=Jürgen Elvert, Walter Hallstein, Biography of a European (1901–1982)|first=Jürgen|last=Elvert|date=7 June 2016|access-date=15 September 2016}}</ref> He was one of the founding fathers of the [[European Union]]. Hallstein is also the person behind the [[Hallstein Doctrine]], wich the former state of [[West Germany]] proclaimed in [[1955]]. It meant that West Germany wouldn't have diplomatic relations with countries that recognized [[East Germany]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Bio-stub}} {{EuCoPres}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hallstein, Walter}} [[Category:1901 births]] [[Category:1982 deaths]] [[Category:European Commissioners]] [[Category:Members of the German Bundestag]] [[Category:German academics]] [[Category:German diplomats]] [[Category:German military personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate]] [[Category:Jurists]] [[Category:People from Mainz]] [[Category:Politicians from Rhineland-Palatinate]] [[Category:Politicians of the Christian Democratic U