{{Short description|French politician (1929–2025)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Daniel Hoeffel | image = Daniel Hoeffel par Claude Truong-Ngoc 2013 (cropped).jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Hoeffel in 2013 | birth_name = Daniel Timothée Paul Hoeffel | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1929|01|23}} | birth_place = Strasbourg, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2025|10|14|1929|01|23}} | death_place = Strasbourg, France | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | education = Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg | party = CDS <br/> UDF <br/> UMP | office = Member of the French Senate for Bas-Rhin | term_start = 2 October 1995 | term_end = 30 September 2004 | predecessor = {{ill|Jean-Paul Hammann|fr}} | successor = Roland Ries | term_start1 = 28 September 1981 | term_end1 = 29 April 1993 | predecessor1 = Jean-Paul Hammann | successor1 = Jean-Paul Hammann | term_start2 = 3 October 1977 | term_end2 = 5 May 1978 | predecessor2 = {{ill|Michel Kauffmann|fr}} | successor2 = Jean-Paul Hammann | office3 = Minister of Transport | term_start3 = 2 October 1980 | term_end3 = 2 May 1981 | president3 = Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | predecessor3 = Joël Le Theule | successor3 = Louis Mermaz | office4 = Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | term_start4 = 9 November 1995 | term_end4 = 8 November 2001 }}
'''Daniel Timothée Paul Hoeffel''' ({{IPA|fr|danjɛl timɔte pɔl ɔfɛl|lang}}; 23 January 1929 – 14 October 2025) was a French politician of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS), the Union for French Democracy (UDF), and the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).<ref>{{cite news |last=Fortier|first=Jacques|date=16 October 2025|title=Pilier de la politique alsacienne, ex-ministre… Daniel Hoeffel, la rigueur et la philosophie|url=https://www.dna.fr/politique/2025/10/16/l-alsacien-daniel-hoeffel-la-rigueur-et-la-philosophie|trans-title= |work=Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace|language=French|location= |publisher= |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>
Hoeffel was notably the son of politician {{ill|Robert Hoeffel|fr}} and grew up in an Alsatian Protestant family.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cabanel|first=Patrick|date=2000|title=Les protestants et la République : de 1870 à nos jours|url= |trans-title= |language=French|location=Brussels|publisher=Ed. Complexe|page= |isbn=2-87027-780-6|access-date=}}</ref>
He served as Minister of Transport from 1980 to 1981 under {{ill|Third Barre government|fr|Gouvernement Barre III|lt=third government}} of Prime Minister Raymond Barre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Sous-la-presidence-de-Valery.html|title=Sous la présidence de Valéry GISCARD D’ESTAING (1974-1981)|work=Ministry of Ecological Transition|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324153805/http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Sous-la-presidence-de-Valery.html|archivedate=24 March 2016}}</ref> From 1995 to 2001, he represented France in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pace.coe.int/en/members/3603|title=Mr Daniel HOEFFEL (France)|work=Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe}}</ref> He represented Bas-Rhin in the Senate from 1977 to 1978, 1981 to 1993, and 1995 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senat.fr/senateur/hoeffel_daniel77029g.html|title=HOEFFEL Daniel|work=Senate|language=French}}</ref>
Hoeffel died in Strasbourg on 14 October 2025, at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=16 October 2025|title=Daniel Hoeffel, ancien ministre et sénateur, est décédé|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/daniel-hoeffel-ancien-ministre-et-senateur-est-decede-20251016|trans-title= |work=Le Figaro|language=French|location= |publisher= |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>
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