Charles Ehrmann

Charles Ehrmann (7 October 19118 August 2011) was a French politician. A member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he was a deputy in the National Assembly from 1976 to 1981 and from 1986 to 2002, as well as a city councillor in Nice from 1965 to 1983.

Biography Ehrmann was born in Paris to a family from Alsace, who had moved there in 1871 after their home region was annexed by Germany in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. His father was killed in the First Battle of the Marne in the early stages of World War I in 1914.

Ehrmann was a teacher of history and geography at the Lycée Masséna in Nice, exercising his profession between 1937 and 1975. He was a city councillor in Nice from 1965 to 1983, serving as the councillor in charge of sports in the administrations of father and son mayors Jean and Jacques Médecin. He was a general councillor of the department of Alpes-Maritimes from 1973 to 2002. The Stade Charles-Ehrmann in Nice bears his name.

Ehrmann died on 8 August 2011, aged 99. Mayor Christian Estrosi of Nice remembered him as a "great humanist, pupil of the nation, deeply European and impassioned defender of the cause of sport".