Pierre Tissier (7 September 1903 – 19 January 1955) was a French resistance fighter and a high-ranking civil servant.
[1][circular reference] Pierre Tissier was born in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine, to a family of high ranking civil servants.
Afterwards he belonged to a number of ministerial cabinets during the 1930s of which Pierre Laval, future head of government in the Vichy France, was also a member.
In 1941 he drafted the statutes of the Free French government and acted as contrôleur de l'armée with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Subsequently, he was named as president of the SNCF, replacing Marcel Flouret who had been forced to resign by the Transport Minister, Christian Pineau for having invested too much in electrification.