Henri Weber
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Henri Weber | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 2004–2014 | |
Member of the French Senate for Seine-Maritime | |
In office 1995–2004 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Panthéon-Sorbonne University | 23 June 1944
Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a
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
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
- 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
- ISSN 0264-0856
References
- 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.
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