Georges Hirsch

Georges Hirsch (22 February 1895 – 12 May 1974) was a French theatre director, a member of the French Resistance, and municipal councillor of Paris. He was a director of the Paris Opera from 1946 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1959. Married to the singer Madeleine Mathieu, he is the father of Professor Jean-François Hirsch, creator of the first paediatric neurosurgery department at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and of Georges-François Hirsch, also director of several Parisian theatres.