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, chairman of the Crédit Lyonnais from 1946 to 1949, and then the third chairman of the

Électricité de France Électricité de France S.A. (literally ''Electricity of France''), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. Headquartered in Paris, with €71.2 billion in revenues in 2 ...

from 1949 to 1952. 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 Buchenwald (; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or su ...

as a "Personnalité-otage"On 31 August, Escallier was transferred to the Plansee subcamp of the

Dachau concentration camp , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...

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1883 births 1965 deaths French bankers Électricité de France Recipients of the Legion of Honour Buchenwald concentration camp survivors {{Holocaust-stub