Charles Lederman
Charles Lederman (born January 27, 1913 in Warsaw , † September 26, 1998 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Parti communiste français (Communist Party of France).
Life
- Until 1945
Charles Lederman was born in 1913 in Warsaw, the son of a furniture painter and factory worker. His father volunteered in the French army during World War I. Charles Lederman attended the Lycée Voltaire in Paris and then studied law .
In 1934 Charles Lederman became a lawyer in Paris and in the same year he joined the French Communist Party. In 1936 he became a lawyer for the trade union CGT (Confédération générale du travail) for the Paris area. At the end of his military service, he was not dismissed, but used as a soldier in the beginning of the Second World War. On 27 October 1940 he was at Dunkirk in German captivity , from which he escaped on 27 October 1940th Charles Lederman settled in Lyon in the unoccupied zone of France . There he supported Jewish organizations and was one of the founding members of the Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide (UJRE) and the Mouvement national contre le racisme (MNCR), which endeavored to save Jewish children from deportation . As a resistance fighter, Charles Lederman received the Médaille de la Résistance , Croix de guerre (War Cross) and Order of Liberation after the war .
- After 1945
After the liberation of France , Charles Lederman was again a lawyer in Paris, where he mainly worked for the Communist Party. He defended opponents of the Indochina War , communists and partisans of the Front de Liberation Nationale . He also stood up for Julian Grimau , who was sentenced to death under Franquism and executed.
Political career
Charles Lederman was elected to the city council of Paris in 1965 and during this time also to the General Council of the then Seine department . On September 25, 1977 he was elected to the Senate in the Val-de-Marne department on the list of the Communist Party . On September 28, 1986, he was re-elected for a second term, after which in 1995 he did not run again. In 1977 he also became a member of the Regional Council of the Île-de-France region . In 1983 Charles Lederman became a member of the Haute Cour de Justice, which punishes misconduct of the President and the Ministers.
Globke trial
A show trial against Hans Globke , a close adviser to Konrad Adenauer , took place at the Supreme Court of the GDR in 1963 because of his National Socialist past. Charles Lederman, then President of the Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide and a lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Paris, was heard as an expert on the decision of the court. He proved that the racial laws and regulations co-authored and commented on by Globke were also precisely applied in France.
Web links
- Charles Lederman: Biography at the French Senate (French text)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lederman, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1998 |
| Place of death | Paris |