Alain Minc

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Alain Minc (born April 15, 1949 in Paris ) is a French intellectual and bestselling author, sociologist, economist and political advisor .

Life

Minc comes from a Polish-Jewish family; his four grandparents were victims of the Holocaust . After attending the Lycée Henri IV , he completed studies at two of the elite universities : in 1971 he graduated from Sciences Po in Paris , then from the ENA administration college in 1975 .

He first worked in the Inspection générale des finances and in 1979 switched to the Saint Gobain Group as CFO . Since 1994 he has been on the board of directors of the daily Le Monde . Today he runs his own consultancy firm AM conseil and was a close advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy .

On August 25, 2010, he said on public radio France Inter in response to the criticism of Pope Benedict XVI. of the numerous deportations of Roma : "You can discuss anything about the Roma affair, but not [if you are] a German Pope. John Paul II. maybe, but not him ... His lack of empathy for the past , for which he is responsible like all Germans whom he inherited - not as the culprit, but as an heir ... "

Minc is married and has three children.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • La grande illusion , Grasset, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-246-40531-9
    • German: The German Challenge , translated by Karin Balzer, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 9783455083477
  • La vengeance des nations , Grasset, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-253-06468-8
    • German: The rebirth of nationalism in Europe , translated by Ilonka Berteaux, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 9783455084368
  • Le nouveau moyen âge , Gallimard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-07-073694-6
    • German: The new Middle Ages , translated by Holger Fock, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 9783455110289
  • La mondialisation heureuse , Plon, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-266-08333-3
    • German: globalization. Chance of the future , translated by Markus Sedlaczek, Zsolnay, Vienna 1998, ISBN 9783552049048
  • Vive l'Allemagne , Collection Essai blanche, Grasset, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-246-81030-8
    • German: Vive l'Allemagne! What Germany is doing right - and what is not , translated by Antje Korsmeier, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-31206-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berggruen Institute: Alain Minc, President & Founder, AM Counseil . Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Badde: Pilgrimage: Sarkozy's walk to Canossa with Pope Benedict. In: welt.de . October 8, 2010, accessed February 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Les propos d'Alain Minc sur le pape font bondir les catholiques - LeMonde.fr
personal data
SURNAME Minc, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French publicist and political advisor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France