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Name
  
Henri Weber

Role
  
French Politician


Spouse
  
Fabienne Servan-Schreiber

Books
  
Nicaragua

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Born
  
23 June 1944 Leninabad, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Khujand, Tajikistan)

Died
  
26 April 2020 (aged 75) Avignon, France

Similar
  
Alain Krivine, Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber, Daniel Bensaïd

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Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.

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Weber was born in Khujand (Leninabad) Tajikistan, Soviet Union, from Jewish parents. His father was a watchmaker. Henri Weber was an activist in the May 1968 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.

Henri Weber : «Les gilets jaunes, c'est la première grande manifestation nationale numérique»


Career

  • Doctorate in philosophy
  • Doctorate in politics
  • Assistant lecturer (1968–1976), then senior lecturer (1976–1995) at the University of Paris VIII
  • National secretary of the Socialist Party, with responsibility for national education, then for training, culture and the media (1993–2003)
  • Member of the Socialist Party's policy bureau, with responsibility for universities
  • Deputy mayor of Saint-Denis (1988–1995)
  • Member of Dieppe Municipal Council (1995–2001)
  • Senator (1995–2004)
  • Member of the European Parliament (1997)
  • Treasurer of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (1988–1997)
  • Essayist
  • Death

    Weber died, aged 75, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

    References

    Henri Weber Wikipedia