Jacques Huntzinger

Jacques Gabriel Huntzinger is a former French ambassador to Israel, Estonia (1991–1994), and Macedonia (1996–1999), and has served as an ambassador at large for the Mediterranean Union and the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research. Huntzinger was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. He was a member of the Socialist Party in the 1980s. From February 1983 to September 1985, Huntzinger was a vice president of the Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community and chair of its manifesto working group. During the 1980s, he was also instrumental in transitioning the French Socialist Party from a disarmament to an anti-totalitarian position.