Étienne Hirsch
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| Relatives | Martin Hirsch (grandson) |
Étienne Hirsch (20 January 1901 – 17 May 1994) was a French civil engineer and a member of the
Life and career
Étienne Hirsch was born in 1901 in a
After France's defeat in the Battle of France during World War II, he immediately joined Charles de Gaulle in London and became an officer in the Free French Forces under the name of Commandant Bernard. General de Gaulle put Hirsch in charge of supplying arms to the French Resistance forces on the Continent. In 1943, he became a close associate with Jean Monnet in the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers. After the liberation of France, he directed a program to modernize the French economy. He served later as an administrator of the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1959, Hirsch became the chairman of the
See also
Bibliography
- 1988 : Ainsi va la vie, Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe, Lausanne, 250 p.
References
- ^ Étienne Hirsch (1901-1994), Ainsi va la vie, Fondation Jean-Monnet pour l'Europe, 1988.
- ^ Alphabetical list of the deportees of convoy 77.
- ^ "Etienne Hirsch, 93, Backer of a Europe United Like the U.S.", The New York Times, 19.05.1994.
External links
- The private papers and an interview by Étienne Hirsch are deposited at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence
- Oral history interview with Etienne Hirsch