Henri Weber

Henri Weber
Henri Weber
Member of the European Parliament
	In office; 2004–2014
Member of the French Senate; for Seine-Maritime
	In office; 1995–2004
Personal details
Born	23 June 1944; Leninabad, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Died	26 April 2020 (aged 75); Avignon, France
Nationality	French
Political party	Socialist Party
Spouse(s)	Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
Children	3
Relatives	Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber (father-in-law)

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 sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.

Weber was born in Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan, Soviet Union, in a Soviet labor camp, on a hospital ship moored on the banks of the Syr-Daria river, to Polish Jewish parents who had fled from the town of Chrzanow, Galicia, during the Nazi 1939 invasion of Poland, and who later immigrated to France from Poland.[1][2] 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 was 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.

Weber died, aged 75, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[3]

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

gollark: You could probably make an excuse along the lines of "if it's not accurate enough, it is liable to go horribly wrong and explode *your* ship".

gollark: I think you can *technically* emulate those on classical computers, but very slowly.

gollark: Also pain toggles and metadata and not just "something hurts now, good luck working out why and also you can't stop it".

gollark: You would probably need more than just brain-level tweaks for that, to provide the data in the first place.

gollark: If you did have a top-down-designed body/brain system, you could have useful features like an immune system which actually provides debug information instead of just mysteriously having you get a fever.

References

Duc, Olivier (27 April 2020). "Coronavirus : le décès de Henri Weber, figure du PS et de mai 68" [Coronavirus: the death of Henri Weber, figure of the PS and of May 68]. France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 29 April 2020.

External links

European Parliament biography
Declaration of financial interests (in French; PDF file)

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[3] Duc, Olivier (27 April 2020). "Coronavirus : le décès de Henri Weber, figure du PS et de mai 68" [Coronavirus: the death of Henri Weber, figure of the PS and of May 68]. France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 29 April 2020.