Henri Weber

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Henri Weber (2008)

Henri Weber (born June 23, 1944 in Leninabad, today Khujand , Tajikistan , † April 26, 2020 in Avignon ) was a French politician of the Parti socialiste . He was a French senator from 1995 to 2004 and a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2014 .

Life

Weber's parents were Jews from Chrzanów , Poland , his father was a watchmaker, and his mother a textile worker. They fled before the Germans invaded the Soviet Union and were deported to a labor camp in Tajikistan. In 1945 the family emigrated to France. In his youth he belonged to the socialist-Zionist Hashomer Hatzair .

He studied philosophy and political science at the Paris Sorbonne . During this time he was involved in the Union des étudiants communistes , student association of the Parti communiste français (PCF). He was excluded from this in 1965 and then founded the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire together with Alain Krivine . He was one of the activists of May 1968 in Paris and the Trotskyist Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR). From 1968 to 1976 he was editor-in-chief of Rouge , the LCR magazine. From 1969 to 1988 he taught political philosophy at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes). He received his doctorate in 1973 from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under Maurice de Gandillac with a thesis on "Marxism and class consciousness", which was rated très honorable .

In 1981 he temporarily withdrew from politics before joining the Parti socialiste in 1986 . There he belonged to the circle around Laurent Fabius , who became President of the National Assembly in 1988 and appointed Weber to his staff as a technical advisor. From 1989 to 1995 Weber was Deputy Mayor of Saint-Denis , a suburb of Paris. He ran for parliamentary elections in 1988 and 1993 without success. He served as special envoy for the Ministers for Relations with Parliament, Martin Malvy and Louis Mermaz . At the same time, he worked from 1992 on in the staff of Laurent Fabius, who was meanwhile first secretary of the PS.

From 1993 to 2008 he was a member of the party's governing bodies ( bureau national and secrétariat national ), where he was responsible for education, culture and the media. From 1995 to 2004 Weber was a member of the French Senate , where he represented the Seine-Maritime department . From 1995 to 2005 he headed the PS “Summer University” in La Rochelle and from 1997 to 2005 the party newspaper Revue Socialiste . From 2004 to 2014 he was a member of the European Parliament . In addition, Weber was Associate Secretary of the PS for questions of globalization from 2008 to 2012 . Under First Secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis , he has been the party's director of European studies since 2014.

Henri Weber was married to the film producer Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, a daughter of the journalist and Gaullist politician Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber . You have three children.

On April 26, 2020, Weber died at the age of 75 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

EU parliamentarians

Weber belonged to the European Parliament of the Social Democratic Group and from 2009 of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats . From 2007 to 2012 he was Deputy Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China. He was also a member of the Committee on Culture and Education from 2004–2009 , the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy from 2009–2012 and the Committee on International Trade from 2012–2014 . He was a delegate in the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee from 2004-2007 and in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly from 2012-2014 .

Web links

Commons : Henri Weber  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coronavirus: Henri Weber, ancien sénateur PS et figure de Mai 68, est mort à 75 ans. In: Le Parisien. April 27, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ L'ancien sénateur socialiste Henri Weber, figure de May 68 et du trotskisme des années 1960 et 1970, est mort , lemonde.fr , accessed on April 27, 2020
  3. ↑ European Parliament / MEPs: Henri Weber. In: europarl.europa.eu. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on April 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (PS), Senator, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Leninabad, today Khujand
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2020
Place of death Avignon