Andr -Gustave Citro n (Born February 2, 1878 and died July 3, 1935 in Paris) was a French entrepreneur of Dutch descent. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him.
Andr -Gustave was the fifth and last child of the Dutch Jewishdiamond merchant Levie Citroen and Mazra Kleinmann (of Warsaw, Poland). The Citroen family moved to Paris from Amsterdam in 1873 where the name changed to Citro n. His father commited suicide when Andr was only two years old.
Andr was a graduate of the cole Polytechnique in 1900. During World War I, he was responsible for mass production of armaments. Andr founded the Citro n automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth-largest automobile manufacturer in the world by the early 1930s. He died of stomach cancer in 1935.
External links
The early years (http://www.citroen.mb.ca/Legacy/early.html)
Citroen Family (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2038/Narizin/CitGeschichte/Kap2.html) (in German)
Insecula encyclopedia (http://www.insecula.com/contact/A010130.html) (in French)
AndreCitroen was born in Paris on the 5th of February 1878, the fifth child of a middle class prosperous Jewish family whose origins were from the outskirts of Amsterdam.
Andre's early childhood was comfortable but sadly due to some complex diamond dealings which went wrong, his father committed suicide in 1884 when Andre was only six.
Although Citroen was known to the Societe Nouvelle des Automobiles Mors as a gear manufacturer, he was also known to them through the marriage of his brother to daughter of the President of the Mors board, a Monsieur Harbleisher.
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