Pierre Prüm

Pierre Prüm
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
In office 20 March 1925 – 16 July 1926
Monarch	Charlotte
Preceded by	Émile Reuter
Succeeded by	Joseph Bech
Personal details
Born	9 July 1886 Troisvierges, Luxembourg
Died	1 February 1950 (aged 63) Clervaux, Luxembourg
Political party	Independent National
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Pierre Prüm (9 July 1886 – 1 February 1950) was a Luxembourgian politician and jurist. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for a year, from 20 March 1925 until 16 July 1926.

Prüm was born in Troisvierges, in the far north of the Grand Duchy, on 9 July 1886. His father, Emile Prüm, was a fervent Roman Catholic and a prominent conservative politician, and this greatly affected his political outlook. He and his brother Emmanuel were sent to university at Leuven, where he joined K.A.V. Lovania Leuven, a Catholic fraternity.

While his brother became a priest, Pierre trained as a lawyer. Like his father, he sought political office, and entered politics himself, representing the canton of Clervaux in the Chamber of Deputies. As a conservative, he joined the Party of the Right (PD) when it was founded, in 1914. However, Prüm left the Party of the Right in 1918 to form his own party, the Independent National Party (PNI).

In 1925, the PNI seized upon the inability of the PD government to pass railway reforms. In the legislative elections of 1 March, the ruling Party of the Right lost its majority in the Chamber of Deputies, winning only 22 of the 47 seats. Unwilling to form a coalition with any parties that had blocked its railway reforms, Prüm was invited to form a government, provided that he could form a majority coalition. Taking in an eclectic collection of Radical Socialists and dissident conservatives, with the additional informal backing of the Socialist Party, Prüm's government took office on 20 March.

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