Henri Weber

French politician (1944–2020)

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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.^[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

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.