Jacques Peirotes

[1] The young Jacques Peirotes, son of a carpenter working at the locomotives factory of Graffenstaden, learned the job of typographer while entering into politics.

He came into the town council of Strasbourg in 1902 and was elected councilor of the southern canton of the Kreis Straßburg (Stadt) in 1903.

He asked to the French authorities to hasten the troops arrival which ended the Socialist revolution taking place.

[2] Elected mayor of Strasbourg in 1919 and reelected in 1925, he created a 'municipal office for cheap accommodations' which built 3,000 social apartments in ten years.

He was beaten in the 1929 election by a coalition of communists and autonomists that led Charles Hueber to the town hall.