Rémy Pflimlin, former president of France Télévisions, has died – The Alsace.fr

Rémy Pflimlin died at the age of 62 years, died of cancer, at the hospital Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, in Paris. He was hospitalized for a month.

He had held a position of responsibility within the press in alsace, DNA, where he was commercial director, and to Alsace, where he chaired the management board, before taking up new functions in the audiovisual sector in Paris, where he had a distinguished career.

He led France 3, and has been named chairman of France Télévisions in 2010. A prestigious position that he has held until 2015. He had joined the State council in September 2015.

He also directed the New courier of the parisian press, from 2006 to 2010.

Rémy Pflimlin, who is a native of Mulhouse, has remained throughout his career faithful to Alsace, the region of origin.

He made his studies at HEC, before joining Days of France and continue his career in the press and the audiovisual media.

He was president of the Musica festival in Strasbourg, france since 2001, and ruled also over the national superior Conservatory of Paris for 2015.

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The reaction of Robert Herrmann, president of the Eurometropolis :

” Remy Pflimlin has just left us, too soon, too fast. The unfailing love of The Alsace region, it has been an unequivocal support for the Musica festival he will have served for so many years. Strasbourg loses a friend and an ally. I extend to his family and loved ones my sincere condolences “.

The reaction of Alain Fontanel, first deputy and deputy to the culture in Strasbourg :

“The disappearance of Rémy Pflimlin is a great loss to the world of culture and media. He will be missed more particularly in Strasbourg and the Musica Festival which he presided in the last fifteen years,” writes Mr. Fontanel on his profile Facebook.

“a Man of very great culture, Rémy Pflimlin was extremely courteous and very gentle. His little smile at the corner of the lips that reflected his humor and his profound kindness.”

The reaction of Philippe Richert, president of the Greater Is

” It is with great sadness that I learn of the disappearance of Rémy Pflimlin, which comes off at the end of a battle against the disease he chose to lead with courage and discretion.
Courage and discretion : these two words, which can be assembled today at the end of his life, describe with accuracy what was the route of this great business leader. He was a man of the press and media. This was not, in him, a simple job : it was a passion. (…) Become one of the most important leaders of public undertaking in France, Rémy Pflimlin has always kept the Alsace is always present in his heart. He was invested in the cultural life, in presiding, in particular in the last fifteen years the prestigious Festival Musica. It is to these particular forms of attachment that is also a measure of the value of a man”.

Eric Straumann, president of the departmental council of the Haut-Rhin.

“It is with very great sadness that I learned of the death of Rémy Pflimlin. Our region loses a large Alsatian. Rémy Pflimlin was very attached to the Alsace region of france and had always close ties with local elected officials, even when he occupied high positions in the national (…) in this respect, these last few months, I have had the chance to work with him on the fate of the House of Alsace”.