Henri Weber

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
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 Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Died26 April 2020(2020-04-26) (aged 75)
Avignon, France
NationalityFrench
Political partySocialist Party
Spouse(s)Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
Children3
RelativesJean-Claude Servan-Schreiber (father-in-law)

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][2] His father was a watchmaker.

Henri Weber was an activist in the May 1968 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.[3]

Career
  • Doctorate in philosophy
  • Doctorate in politics
  • Assistant lecturer (1968–1976), then senior lecturer (1976–1995) at the University of Paris VIII
  • 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

References
  3. 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]. France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 29 April 2020.


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