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| 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 | (1944-06-23)23 June 1944 Leninabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 26 April 2020(2020-04-26) (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 |
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.
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. 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.
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.
Weber died, aged 75, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
Career
- 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
- 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
- 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
- European Parliament biography
- Declaration of financial interests (in French; PDF file)
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- 1944 births
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- MEPs for North-West France 2004–2009
- MEPs for Massif-central–Centre 2009–2014
- Socialist Party (France) MEPs
- Senators of Seine-Maritime
- French people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Jewish French politicians
- People from Khujand
- Polish emigrants to France
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
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