Léon Meyer

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Léon Meyer (1924)

Léon Meyer (born September 11, 1868 in Le Havre ; died January 22, 1948 in Paris ) was a French politician, minister and mayor. Meyer was a survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Meyer completed his school days from 1872 to 1885 in Le Havre. Between 1886 and 1888 he did military service in the French army with the 5th Hussar Regiment. In Le Havre he founded a coffee import company in 1889 and then worked as a coffee importer. From 1902 to 1919 he was President of the Association of Coffee Importers. Furthermore, between 1900 and 1936 he was "conseiller général" in the Seine Inférieure department . From 1912 to 1919 he was city councilor of Le Havre and then mayor there until 1941. As a member of the Radical Socialist Party , he was a member of the French Chamber of Deputies from 1923 to 1940 .

Meyer became Minister of Merchant Navy in 1924, Minister of Commerce in 1931 and was again Minister of Merchant Navy between 1932 and 1933. In 1937 he became Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

Due to his Jewish origins, Meyer and his wife and daughter were deported to the Bergen-Belsen residence camp by 1944 at the latest and from there to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where the family arrived on July 12, 1944. As in Bergen-Belsen, Meyer was also a prominent prisoner in Theresienstadt . At the beginning of May 1945 Meyer was liberated in Theresienstadt by the Red Army . Meyer died in Paris in 1948.

In the city center of Le Havre there is a square with a bust of him named after him.

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SURNAME Meyer, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, minister and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1948
Place of death Paris