Henri Reichenbach
French businessman
About Henri Reichenbach
Lived 1891 – 1941 (aged 49–50).
Henri Reichenbach (born 29 January 1891 in Paris, died September 1941 in New York) was a French businessman who co-founded Prisunic in 1931. Forced to emigrate because of his Jewish heritage, he committed suicide after the Nazi invasion of France.
His wife, Jeanne Reichenbach, had a famous love affair with France's first Jewish prime minister, Léon Blum, joining Blum and becoming his wife in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943. A version of this story was fictionalized in a movie, Je ne rêve que de vous based on a book, Je vous promets de revenir, by Dominique Missika.
Reichnbach's father, Emile Reichenbach, was the vice president of the Comité France-Suisse.
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Who was Henri Reichenbach?
French businessman (1891-1941)
When was Henri Reichenbach born?
Henri Reichenbach was born on 29 January 1891.
When did Henri Reichenbach die?
Henri Reichenbach died in 1941.
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