Louis Kahn

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. 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 described Admiral Kahn's role:

He was president of the Marine Academy (l'Académie de marine) from 1959 to 1961.

He was president of the Consistoire Central des juifs de France (1963–1967). He was also president-delegate of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and vice-president of the ORT. 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).

On July 18, 2010, in a speech, the French Secretary of State for development of the territory, Hubert Falco, paid homage to him.