Walter Hallstein was among the great European visionaries. This is the first book length study of one of the key shapers of the European Community in its early years. The range of contributors include those who worked with Hallstein and have personal recollections of him, and younger historians drawing upon documents only recently available. The book contains sections on his contribution as State Secretary to post-war German foreign policy, his seminal role as the first President of the Commission of the EEC and the legacy of his work and ideas and later years as President of the European Movement.

FRANK BARENBRINKER PhD Student and Assistant to the Chair for Modern History, Essen University HANS HERBERT GOTZ Economic Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1963 to 1975 in Brussels WILHELM GREWE Retired Ambassador HANS VON DER GROEBEN Former Section Head in the Ministry of the Economy AXEL HERBST Retired Ambassador JOACHIM JAENICKE Retired Ambassador HANNS JURGEN KUSTERS Research Fellow, Research Centre for Contemporary Issues, Bonn LOTHAR LAHN Retired Ambassador JORG MONAR Director of the Institut fur Europaische Politik, Bonn KARLHEINZ NARJES Lawyer EMILE NOEL Former President of the European Higher Education Institute, Florence