Henry Hermand

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Henry Hermand

Henry Hermand (born July 11, 1924 in Clermont ; died November 6, 2016 in Paris ) was a French entrepreneur, editor-in-chief and political advisor. He founded Progest , a company that has built shopping centers in Europe, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, which he sold to Klépierre in 2006. He was a co-founder of Terra Nova , a think tank affiliated with the Socialist Party . He was also the mentor of the current French President Emmanuel Macron and donated for his movement.

Childhood, youth and education

Hermand was born on July 11, 1924, the son of a grocery wholesaler in Clermont on the Oise in France. He was raised Catholic.

Hermand attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly . During the Second World War he joined the Resistance . After the war, he applied unsuccessfully for admission to the École Polytechnique . However, he acquired the title of license de sciences .

Working life

Hermand began his professional life as a physicist at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA). However, because of his political views, he had to leave the facility.

Hermand now founded the Progest company , a company that establishes and operates shopping centers. In 1964 he opened his first supermarket in Le Blanc-Mesnil . In 1967 he bought a piece of forest in the north of the municipality of Saint-Maximin from Élie de Rothschild ; he turned it into the largest industrial park in Picardy when it opened in 1969. A year later he invited the singer Claude François to the one-year anniversary . The concert was attended by 10,000 people.

Hermand subsequently opened supermarkets and shopping centers in the suburbs of Paris, in the rest of Europe including Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic, in North Africa (including Morocco) and sub-Saharan Africa . He often worked with Édouard Leclerc, the founder of the E.Leclerc supermarket chain. In 2006 he sold his company Progest to the investor Klépierre, a real estate investment trust (REIT) listed on the CAC Next 20 .

In 2007 he founded HH Développement , a company that develops and manages commercial real estate.

Hermand's political life

Hermand joined the PSU . He was close to Michel Rocard . He became an anti-colonialist and an anti-communist. He became a member of the editorial board of Esprit , a political magazine , in the 1950s . He was chairman of the board and president of Le Matin de Paris from 1985 to 1987. In 2014 he was one of the founders of Le 1 , another newspaper.

Hermand was a member of the Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CES) from 1989 to 1994 . He was a sponsor of La République des Idées , a think tank founded by historian Pierre Rosanvallon in 2002. He was also a co-founder and sponsor of Terra Nova , a think tank affiliated with the Socialist Party.

When Hermand first met Emmanuel Macron, Macron was 25 years old. He soon became Macron's mentor. He gave Macron a loan of € 550,000 when he was finance director at the Inspection générale des finances ; Macron bought his first apartment with this amount. In 2007 Hermand was his best man at the wedding with Brigitte Trogneux . In 2016 he provided him with offices for his organization En Marche! who served Macron in the 2017 election campaign for president.

Hermand became an officer on June 28, 1993 and commander of the Legion of Honor on December 31, 2013 .

Private life, death

Hermand lived in Paris and Senlis , in the Oise department. In 2010 his autobiography L'ambition n'est pas un rêve was published . In 2016 he donated € 1 million for the Georges Cziffra Foundation to enable the purchase of the Collégiale Saint-Frambourg in Senlis. Most recently (2016) he had an estimated net worth of € 220 million.

Hermand died on November 6, 2016 in Paris. He was 92 years old.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Henry Hermand, mentor de Macron, est décédé . In: Les Echos , November 6, 2016 Obituary. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Henry Hermand, acteur de la deuxième gauche et mentor d'Emmanuel Macron, est mort . In: Le Monde , November 6, 2011. Accessed on April 28, 2017. “Il avait enfin aidé Emmanuel Macron, personnellement d'abord par un prêt de 550,000 euros afin que le jeune inspecteur des finances acquière son premier appartement parisien, puis Politiquement en abritant récemment dans ses bureaux les premiers militants d'En marche, l'association qui œuvre aujourd'hui à la candidature de l'ancien ministre de l'économie. " 
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Qui était Henry Hermand, homme d'affaires et mentor d'Emmanuel Macron . In: L'Express , November 6, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
  4. ↑ a b Henry Hermand, l'homme qui veut faire de Macron un président . In: Les Echos , January 18, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
  5. ↑ a b c d Décès de Henry Hermand, le bienfaiteur de Macron . In: Liberation , November 7, 2016. Accessed on April 28, 2017. “Quelques années plus tard, il accordera au jeune inspecteur des finances un prêt personnel de 550,000 euros pour financer l'achat de son premier appartement parisien. Enthousiasmé par le lancement d'En Marche, il héberge dans ses bureaux parisiens le mouvement naissant, avant que ce dernier ne déménage tour Montparnasse. " 
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g “Je suis à l'origine de 100,000 emplois dans le monde” . In: Le Parisien , November 12, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
  7. ↑ Décret du 31 December 2013 portant promotion . Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  8. ^ "L'ambition n'est pas un rêve", d'Henry Hermand: patron, mais de gauche . In: Le Monde , December 13, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
  9. ↑ Senlis: avec un don exceptionnel, Henry Hermand sauve la chapelle Saint-Frambourg . In: Le Parisien , September 11, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
  10. ↑ Les 500 plus grandes fortunes de France en 2016: Henry Hermand . In: Challenges . Retrieved April 28, 2017. 
personal data
SURNAME Hermand, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Clermont , France
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2016
Place of death Paris , France