Louis Escallier | |
Birth Name: | Joseph Edme Louis Escallier |
Birth Date: | 1883 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Malesherbes, Loiret, France |
Death Place: | Geneva, Switzerland |
Nationality: | French |
Citizenship: | France |
Occupation: | Businessman, banker |
Known For: | Inspection générale des finances Chair of Électricité de France (1949–1952) |
Awards: | Légion d'honneur |
Organisation: | Banque de l'Algérie Crédit Lyonnais Électricité de France |
Louis Escallier (11 January1883 11 July1965) was a French businessman. He was a financial inspector and then the governor of the Banque de l'Algérie from 1934 to 1946,[1] chairman of the Crédit Lyonnais from 1946 to 1949, and then the third chairman of the Électricité de France from 1949 to 1952.[2]
Escallier was one of the senior financial officials arrested in August1943 and detained in Germany. He was deported on 13 August1943, from Compiègne to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a "Personnalité-otage"On 31 August, Escallier was transferred to the Plansee subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp.[3]