Nicolas Grunitzky

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Nicolas Grunitzky
Prime Minister of Togo
In office
12 September 1956 – 16 May 1958
Preceded bynone
Succeeded bySylvanus Olympio
Personal details
Born(1913-04-05)5 April 1913
Paris, France
Political partyPTP
UDPT
SpouseVinolia Baeta
RelationsSylvanus Olympio (brother-in-law)

Nicolas Grunitzky (French pronunciation:

loi cadre system, which created a limited "national" government in their colonial possessions. He was elected Prime Minister of Togo —still under French administration— in 1956. Following the 1963 coup which killed his nationalist political rival and brother-in-law Sylvanus Olympio, Grunitzky was chosen by the military committee of coup leaders to be Togo's second President.[1]

Biography

He was born in

1956. Supported by France, he became the Prime Minister of the Republic of Togo on September 12, 1956. The PTP and its northern ally, the Union of Chiefs and Peoples of the North, were defeated in elections held on May 16, 1958 by Sylvanus Olympio's Committee of Togolese Unity (CUT) and their nationalist allies Juvento
, and Grunitzky subsequently went into exile.

The CUT/JUVENTO government declared Togo's independence on April 27, 1960, and Olympio (Grunitzky's chief political rival and brother-in-law) was elected the first president of independent Togo. Following a

Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadema. Grunitzky attempted to unify the country by including several political parties in his government. He was, however, toppled in a bloodless military coup led by now-Lt. Col Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadema and was exiled to Paris
.

He was injured in a car accident in

Côte d'Ivoire
, and died from complications in a hospital in Paris in 1969.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-230-27114-2
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  2. ISBN 9782913746169
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  3. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5
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Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article (retrieved 27 May 2005).

Preceded by
none
Prime Minister of Togo

1956–1958 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
President of Togo

1963–1967 		Succeeded by
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