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The Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and its Member Biographies updated 11 January

Interesting biographies about current and previous members of the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

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Franco-German agreement <strong>of</strong> November 23. He returned to France in June 1940, but was<br />

deported <strong>and</strong> interned in 1943 in Austria, where he remained until 1945. 36 After <strong>the</strong> war, he<br />

was French government adviser for German affairs. In June, 1949, he was appointed High<br />

<strong>Commission</strong>er <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> French Republic in Germany. François-Ponçet was born to a family <strong>of</strong><br />

magistrates in 1887. In 1913, a year before World War One, he wrote "What German Youth<br />

is Thinking", a work that created a sensation. 37 In 1973 he received <strong>the</strong> Henry Dunant medal.<br />

François-Ponçet was born on June 13 th 1887 in Provins, France <strong>and</strong> died on <strong>January</strong> 8 th 1978<br />

in Paris. 38<br />

36 French <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Cross</strong><br />

37 http://www.redcross.int/en/history/not_Poncet.asp<br />

38 <strong>St<strong>and</strong>ing</strong> <strong>Commission</strong><br />

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