Georges Weill
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affiliationsFrench Communist Party
Georges Weill | |
|---|---|
 Georges Weill – 1933 | |
| Member of the Reichstag for Alsace-Lorraine, Germany | |
| In office 1912 – 5 August 1914 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Bas-Rhin, France | |
| In office 11 May 1924 – 31 May 1928 | |
| In office 8 May 1932 – 31 May 1936 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 September 1882 Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany |
| Died | 10 January 1970 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Other political affiliations | French Communist Party |
| Parent(s) | Elias and Melanie Weill |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | France |
| Years of service | 1914–1918 |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Georges Weill (17 September 1882 – 10 January 1970) was an Alsatian politician who was a Socialist member of parliament for Metz in the German Reichstag from 1912 to 1914. After the outbreak of World War I, he declared his loyalty to France and joined the French Army. In response he was stripped of German citizenship on 5 August 1914. After the Allied victory the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine returned to France, he was elected general counsel of the Lower Rhine in 1919 and became a socialist member of the French Parliament for the Bas-Rhin district.[1]
Georges Weill was born in 1882 to the merchant Elias Weill and his wife Melanie Weill Dreyfus in Strasbourg. He came from a bilingual family living in the German-controlled Alsace-Lorraine. He attended secondary school in Strasbourg, the Faculté des Lettres (Sorbonne) in Paris, the law and political science faculty of the University of Strasbourg and received his PhD in 1904 as Doctor of Political Sciences in Strasbourg with the German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp. From 1900 to 1901, he was the editor of the magazine Le Mouvement socialiste in Paris, in 1902–1904 research assistant at the Chamber of Commerce in Strasbourg, in 1905 the editor of the Free Press in Strasbourg and in 1906–1910 editor of the Franconian Daily Mail in Nuremberg. His writings got him in trouble, and he frequently suffered fines because of press offenses and had two prison sentences.[2]
