Daniel Hoeffel

Daniel Timothée Paul Hoeffel was a French politician of the Centre of Social Democrats, the Union for French Democracy, and the Union for a Popular Movement.
Hoeffel was notably the son of politician and grew up in an Alsatian Protestant family.
He served as Minister of Transport from 1980 to 1981 under of Prime Minister Raymond Barre. From 1995 to 2001, he represented France in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He represented Bas-Rhin in the Senate from 1977 to 1978, 1981 to 1993, and 1995 to 2004.
Hoeffel died in Strasbourg on 14 October 2025, at the age of 96.