Gerard Sandoz

Born in Poland on August 11th, 1914, Gustave Stern is high in an immigrant family of Jews ashkénazes in Berlin right after its birth. Since 1933, it enters in clandestinity and, under the name of Edu, fight against the mode in rows trotskystes. Decree and condemned for high treason to two years of prison and of camp, it obtains in 1937 an exit visa for Palestine thanks to its Polish Jewish origins. But he prefers to join France via Denmark and to engage like volunteer in the Foreign legion. Captive fact, it escapes and returns to the Release to Paris. After there to have held a bookstore, it enters with a.F.P. in 1950 with charges the cover with it with the German topicality. In parallel, he works for France Observer and collaborates in Spiegel and many West German trade-union newspapers. Friend of Willy Brandt, these contacts with the leaders of S.P.D., in particular with Esselbarth (president of the bank of the German trade unions, Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft) allow France Observer to obtain in 1961 a prêtà very advantageous conditions. But the loan proves to be insufficient and the newspaper must make new skin under the impulse of newcomers. Member of the new team, it has then the responsibility of cover the German topicality and the Franco-German relations, more largely to see the East-West relations.

But the interior policy remains its principal center of interest and it is interested much in the German left wing at the point to draw a book from it: German left wing (Julliard, 1970). Friend of Willy Brandt, it draws several times his portrait and the interview in July 1976. Especially covering Germany of Paris, in particular after having ceased doing it for A.F.P. (1979), it shows “an immense European culture”. In 1980, it makes it divide in two books, one on German resistance, and the other on the German company. He dies on February 11th, 1988 at the 74 years age.

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