Louis Kahn (admiral)

Louis-Lazare Kahn (1895–1967, Paris), known as Admiral Louis Kahn, was the first French Jewish Admiral, and a leader of the French Jewish community.

Biography Louis Kahn was born in 1895 and received a degree in marine engineering from the École Polytechnique in 1914.Christian Marbach : Les marins polytechniciens. During World War II, he escaped from France via Spain, headed for London, then to Algiers, the shipbuilding center of the Free French Naval Forces ().

With the Secretary of the Navy (Ministre de la Marine) Louis Jacquinot and the Vice-Admiral André Lemonnier, Engineer General Louis Kahn was one of the project managers of the revival of the Navy from Algiers.

Roger Peyrefitte thus describedRoger Peyrefitte, The Jews. A Fictional Venture Into The Follies Of Antisemitism. Bobbs-Merrill: New York City, 1965, p. 330-331. Admiral Kahn's role:

He was president of the Marine Academy (l'Académie de marine)His son Pierre Kahn wrote a book on his father, published by l'Académie de marine. Cited by Susan Zuccotti. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews, p.358, note 2. from 1959 to 1961.Susan Zuccotti. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews, p.358, note 2.

He was president of the Consistoire Central des juifs de France (1963–1967).After his death, in February 1967, Baron Alain de Rothschild, previously president of the Consistoire de Paris, succeeded him as president of the Consistoire Central. See, Arnold Mandel, 1968, p. 452, in "Western Europe".He participated to a ceremony at the Synagogue of Fontainebleau. See, La Synagogue de Fontainebleau. With a photo of Louis Kahn holding a Sefer Torah. He was also president-delegate of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and vice-president of the ORT.

Admiral Kahn was close to rabbi David Feuerwerker. The latter officiated at the wedding of the son of the president of the Consistoire Central in the Synagogue Chasseloup-Laubat, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

Personal life Louis Kahn married Anne-Marcelle Schrameck (1896–1965), daughter of politician Abraham Schrameck on 11 July 1922, at the synagogue de la Victoire in Paris. In 1919 she had been the first woman engineer to graduate from the École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne (the National School of Mines of Saint-Étienne). The couple lived in Brest, then Saigon then Lorient and had two sons, Pierre (1926–1997) and Jean (1931–2017).

Death and commemoration Admiral Kahn was buried at Versailles's Jewish cemetery. The funeral was led by Jacob Kaplan', France's Chief Rabbi. Note that both, Kahn and Kaplan, were Kohanim.

In 1968, the writer Arnold Mandel gave the following description of Admiral Kahn:

On July 18, 2010, in a speech, the French Secretary of State for development of the territory, Hubert Falco, paid homage to him.See, Vichy: Un passé qui ne passe plus.

Bibliography Pierre Kahn. Essai sur les méthodes de pensée et d'action de l'ingénieur général du Génie maritime Louis Kahn. Académie de marine: Paris, 1973 Richard Ayoun.Un grand homme de la communauté juive de Versailles: l'ingénieur général du génie maritime Louis Kahn (1895–1967). Centenaire de la synagogue de Versailles, Versailles, septembre 1986, p. 33-36. Susan Zuccotti. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. ,

Louis Kahn (admiral)

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