predecessor successor death_date birth_place president death_place party office primeminister birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
paul reuter michel rasquin pierre dupong marcel fischbach victor bodson pierre dupong 10 august 1976 luxembourg , luxembourg walter hallstein luxembourg , luxembourg christian social people 's party ambassador for transport minister for defence to the north atlantic treaty organisation european commissioner pierre dupong 18 january 1908 1967 18 june 1958 1 march 1947 lambert schaus
 1973 2 july 1967 14 july 1948 lambert schaus
lambert schaus

lambert schaus -lrb- 18 january 1908 -- 10 august 1976 -rrb- was a luxembourg politician , jurist , and diplomat .
he held office as a government minister and european commissioner .
schaus was born in luxembourg city to a jeweller .
he studied jurisprudence in paris , and also in bonn for one term .
in 1932 schaus was appointed as a lawyer at the luxembourgish court of appeal .
prior to the second world war schaus was active in local politics as a luxembourg town councillor .
when schaus refused to support the occupation of luxembourg by germany , he was arrested in 1941 by the gestapo and interned in a labour camp where he worked to build motorways .
later he was made an office assistant in the district administration office of cochem and was later stationed in labour camps in the sudetenland and black forest areas .
on returning to luxembourg after the war he became economy and army minister in the government of pierre dupong in august 1946 , representing the csv party .
he was responsible for the difficult reconstruction and for the first standing army of the grand duchy .
in july 1948 schaus left the government and again became luxembourg town councillor until 1952 .
from 1952 he became a special envoy , and from 1955 , ambassador to belgium , based in brussels .
in this role he was significantly involved in the development of european integration and led the luxembourg delegation negotiating the formation of the european economic community and euratom .
on 18 june 1958 schaus was appointed luxembourg 's representative on the inaugural european commission , the hallstein commission , to replace the recently deceased michel rasquin .
schaus had responsibility for the transport portfolio .
he strove in particular for a common traffic policy among the eec states as well as opening of the national markets for traffic and transport enterprises from other states .
he was re-appointed to the second hallstein commission in 1962 and served until 1967 .
he was succeeded by victor bodson .
