Lazare Weiller
French engineer, industrialist, and politician
Lazare Weiller (20 July 1858 – 12 August 1928) was a French engineer, industrialist, and politician. He was born in Alsace and received a technical education in England and in his cousin's copper factory in Angoulême.2
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Born Jul 20, 1858, died Aug 12, 1928.1
About
He was very interested in the physical sciences, particularly the use of electricity to transmit sound and images. He proposed a system for scanning, transmitting and displaying images that was the basis for experiments by various television pioneers. He sponsored early aviation experiments by the Wright brothers. He founded several companies including a telephone wire manufacturer, a taximeter manufacturer, the first Parisian cab company to use automobiles, an aircraft company and a wireless telegraphy company.
He was a deputy during World War I (1914–18) and then a senator until his death.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedLycée Saint-Louis3
Career
Occupation: politician, businessperson, engineer, art collector.5
- Date not recordedFounded Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre4
Personal life
Politics
Weiller ran for election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1888 as a republican candidate for Angoulême during the Boulangism crisis, but was defeated.
In 1914 at the request of the government Weiller visited Switzerland and wrote a report on German propaganda abroad and the shortage of raw materials in Germany.
He was elected deputy for Charente from 10 May 1914 to 7 December 1919.
In the chamber he spoke for the people of his native Alsace, which was occupied by Germany at that time.
He sat with the left, and was a member of the committees on tax legislation and on posts and telegraphs.
In 1917 Weiller submitted a project for the people of Alsace-Lorraine to adopt French versions of their [German] names to "protect them from public malignity and the reprisals of the mob".
It was rejected for patriotic reasons, since the Alsace-Lorrainers were considered to have always been part of the French family.
Weiller ran for reelection on 16 November 1919 but was defeated.
He was elected senator for Charente on 11 January 1920 and reelected on 9 January 1927, holding office until his death.
On 23 March 1920 Le Figaro published an article by Weiller in which he argued that France could have achieved a favorable end to the war in 1917 if she had had a representative in the Vatican during peace negotiations at that time.
He sat with the democratic left group, and was a member of the foreign affairs committee.
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- 1WikidataLazare Weiller on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaLazare Weiller on Wikipedia
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- 13Wikimedia CommonsLazare Weiller photo by Agence Rol, Public domain