Nicolas
Sarkozy
French Politician,
* 28 January 1955 in Paris
S. is the son of a Hungarian immigrant father, Pál Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa
and a mother of French Catholic and Greek Jewish descent, Andrée Mallah. His Greek-born grandfather, Benico Mallah (former Aaron Mallah), was a physician from Thessaloniki. Benico, who left for France to become a doctor, was the son of Mordechai Mallah, one of the eight sons of Aaron Mallah, founder of the Rabbinical School of
Thessaloniki.
S.'s father was born in 1928 in Budapest into a family belonging to the lower nobility of Hungary. The family possessed lands and a small castle.
As the Red Army entered Hungary in 1944, the Sárközy family fled to
Germany. They returned in 1945 but all their possessions had been seized. Pál Sárközy managed to flee to Austria and then Germany.
There he signed up for five years with the French Foreign Legion. He returned to civilian life
in 1948 and met Andrée Mallah, Nicolas Sarkozy's mother, in 1949. She was the daughter of Benedict
Mallah, originally called Aaron Mallah, born in 1890 in the Sephardic Jewish community of Salonica.
Mallah converted to Catholicism and married in 1917 Adčle Bouvier. During World War II to avoid being arrested
the couple took refuge in a small farm. Paul Sarkozy and Andrée Mallah had three
sons: The second, Nicolas was born in 1955. In 1959 Paul Sarkozy left his wife and his three
children.
S. obtained his baccalauréat in 1973, graduated with a Master in Private law, and later with a degree in Business
law. Then he became a lawyer. S. wed his first wife Marie-Dominique Culioli
in 1982. They had two sons and divorced in 1996. As mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine,
S. met Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz and married her in the same year. They have one
son. S. and Cécilia divorced in October 2007. In February 2008, S. married Carla Bruni.
S.'s political career began at 22 when he became a city councillor in
Neuilly-sur-Seine. A member of the Neo-Gaullist party RPR, he went on to be elected mayor of that
town and served from 1983 to 2002. S. has been president of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), France's major right political
party, and was Minister of the Interior in the government of Dominique de
Villepin.
In January 2007, S. was chosen by the UMP to be its candidate in the 2007 presidential
election which he won in May 2007 in the second round ahead of Ségolčne Royal.
On 16 May 2007, S. became President of France. The UMP, S.’s party, won a majority at the June 2007 legislative
election.
Anschrift
von / Address of Sh.:
Werke von / Works of S.:
Literatur über
/ Writings concerning S.:
Literatur
im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek von und über
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Writings
in the catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek of and about
:
Nicolas Sarkozy
Letzte Änderung / Last update: 31.05.2008
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