Dominique Boueilh, new President of the International Dachau Committee (CID)
After his election on 19 November 2022 as the future president of the CID, Dominique Boueilh took up his duties as president on 25 February 2023. He succeeds General Jean-Michel Thomas, whose essential action within the CID during his two mandates was highly recognised and praised.
His father, Didier BOUEILH, was arrested in March 1944, at the age of 18, by the Gestapo who was looking for his brother, who was involved in the French Resistance in the South-West of France. He left Compiègne on 2 July 1944 in the sinister "Death Train", convoy 7909, bound for Dachau, then transferred to the Neckarelz camp. Ill, he was then evacuated to the Dachau camp until the liberation of the camp on 29 April 1945.
Dominique BOUEILH is also President of the French Amicale of the Dachau camp and Secretary General of the Union of French Associations for the Remembrance of Nazi Camps, whose founding members are the French associations or amicales of Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück. He has been a member of the CID Board of Directors for 15 years.
He worked for 40 years at Airbus Defence & Space, a successful model of European integration to which he has remained very loyal. His professional career has given him the opportunity to collaborate with many European countries and colleagues, particularly in Germany at the industrial sites of Ottobrunn, Manching, Ulm and Friedrichshafen.
Dominique Boueilh is married, has three children and six grandchildren.
During his first meetings with Mr. Freller, Director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation, and with Mrs. Gabrielle Hammermann, Director of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, the new president reaffirmed his will to continue and strengthen the very good collaboration pursued so far with the various actors in the service of the memory of the Dachau concentration camp, and to pay particular attention and support to the renovation project of the Memorial. Through its multidimensional and innovative character, the Memorial shares the vision and objectives of the CID to bring to new generations all the values of humanity and the hopes of a free world, as bequeathed by the survivors of the Dachau concentration camp.
