His name is associated with one of the most symbolic movements after May 68. Died at his home in Montpellier on August 28, at the age of 89, Claude Neuschwander was the leader of Lip from 1974 to 1976 The watchmaking manufacture, based in Besançon, was then the object of a social and societal movement. The employees had occupied the factory and then tried to save their company from compulsory liquidation, by setting up an unprecedented process of self-management.
A left-wing activist who worked for Unef and the Socialist Party, he was also general secretary then general manager of Fnac in 1980, when the Coops (consumer cooperatives) were the main shareholders. “He played an active role in the life of our city by contributing to the development of ideas and the development of initiatives for our territory”, pays tribute to him Michaël Delafosse (PS), the mayor of Montpellier, where Claude Neuschwander s was established in the early 2000s. “He notably founded the Montpellier 2020 ideas laboratory, renamed Montpellier 20.50. »