You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (April 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (April 2020) |
Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
Henri Weber | |
|---|---|
 Henri Weber in 2008 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 2004–2014 | |
| Member of the French Senate for Seine-Maritime | |
| In office 1995–2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1944 Leninabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 26 April 2020 (aged 75) Avignon, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse | Fabienne Servan-Schreiber |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber (father-in-law) |
| Alma mater | Faculté des lettres de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Weber was born in Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan, Soviet Union, in a Soviet labor camp, on a hospital ship moored on the banks of the Syr-Daria river, to Polish Jewish parents who had fled from the town of Chrzanow, Galicia, during the Nazi 1939 invasion of Poland, and who later immigrated to France from Poland.[1][citation needed] His father was a watchmaker.
Henri Weber was an activist in the May 68 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS.[citation needed]
He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.[citation needed]
Weber died, aged 75, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[2]
Career
edit- Doctorate in philosophy
- Doctorate in politics
- Assistant lecturer (1968–1976), then senior lecturer (1976–1995) at the University of Paris 8
- National secretary of the Socialist Party, with responsibility for national education, then for training, culture and the media (1993–2003)
- Member of the Socialist Party's policy bureau, with responsibility for universities
- Deputy mayor of Saint-Denis (1988–1995)
- Member of Dieppe Municipal Council (1995–2001)
- Senator (1995–2004)
- Member of the European Parliament (1997)
- Treasurer of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (1988–1997)
- Essayist
Reviews
edit- Wilkinson, Paul (1982), Why Nicaragua?, which includes a review of Nicaragua: The Sandinist Revolution by Henri Weber, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 45 & 46, ISSN 0264-0856
References
edit- ^ Shindler, Colin (22 December 2011). Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimization. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781441138521.
- ^ Duc, Olivier (27 April 2020). "Coronavirus : le décès de Henri Weber, figure du PS et de mai 68" [Coronavirus: the death of Henri Weber, figure of the PS and of May 68] (in French). France Bleu. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
External links
edit- European Parliament biography
- Declaration of financial interests [permanent dead link] (in French; PDF file)
 | This article about a Member of the European Parliament from France is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |