Henri Weber
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. His father was a watchmaker. Henri Weber was an activist in the May 68 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. Career
 Doctorate in philosophy
 Doctorate in politics
 Assistant lecturer (1968–1976), then senior lecturer (1976–1995) at the University of Paris 8
 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

Reviews
 Wilkinson, Paul (1982), Why Nicaragua?, which includes a review of Nicaragua: The Sandinist Revolution by Henri Weber, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed. ), Cencrastus No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 45 & 46,

References

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

1944 births
2020 deaths
MEPs for North-West France 2004–2009
MEPs for Massif-central–Centre 2009–2014
Socialist Party (France) MEPs
Senators of Seine-Maritime
French people of Polish-Jewish descent
Jewish French politicians
People from Khujand
Polish emigrants to France
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
Knights of the Legion of Honour