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Henri Weber
Henri Weber in 2008
Member of the European Parliament
In office 2004–2014
Member of theFrench Senate forSeine-Maritime
In office 1995–2004
Personal details
Born	(1944-06-23)23 June 1944 Leninabad,Tajik SSR,Soviet Union
Died	26 April 2020(2020-04-26) (aged 75) Avignon,France
Nationality	French
Political party	Socialist Party
Spouse	Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
Children	3
Relatives	Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber(father-in-law)
Alma mater	Faculté des lettres de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was aFrench politician andMember of the European Parliament for thenorth-west ofFrance. He was a member of theSocialist Party (PS), which is part of theParty of European Socialists, and sat on theEuropean Parliament'sCommittee on Culture and Education.

Weber was born in Leninabad (nowKhujand),Tajikistan,Soviet Union, in a Sovietlabor camp, on a hospital ship moored on the banks of theSyr-Daria river, to Polish Jewish parents who had fled from the town ofChrzanow,Galicia, during theNazi 1939 invasion of Poland, and who later immigrated to France from Poland.^{[1][citation needed]} His father was a watchmaker.

Henri Weber was an activist in theMay 68 uprising and was a leading member of theTrotskyistJeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) andRevolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS.^{[citation needed]}

He was also a substitute for theCommittee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to theEU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations withJapan.^{[citation needed]}

Weber died, aged 75, after contractingCOVID-19 during theCOVID-19 pandemic in France.^[2]

• Doctorate in philosophy
• Doctorate in politics
• Assistant lecturer (1968–1976), then senior lecturer (1976–1995) at theUniversity of Paris 8
• National secretary of theSocialist 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 ofSaint-Denis (1988–1995)
• Member ofDieppe Municipal Council (1995–2001)
• Senator (1995–2004)
• Member of theEuropean Parliament (1997)
• Treasurer of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (1988–1997)
• Essayist

• Wilkinson, Paul (1982),WhyNicaragua?, which includes a review ofNicaragua: The Sandinist Revolution by Henri Weber, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.),Cencrastus No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 45 & 46,ISSN 0264-0856

• European Parliament biography
• Declaration of financial interests^{[permanent dead link]} (in French;PDF file)

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