Frederic Victor Zeller was a French painter, and political activist.
12 Facts About Fred Zeller
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Fred Zeller was elected to lead the Grand Orient de France in 1971, a position he held until 1973.
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Fred Zeller then continued his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in the Rue d'Ulm.
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Fred Zeller joined the Socialist Students in 1931, later on the Young Socialists and finally to the SFIO.
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Fred Zeller soon became a leader of the Socialist Youth, in which he led a trend called "revolutionary socialist youth" that opposed both the reformist wing more, close to the leadership of the SFIO and aware pro-Trotskyist Bolshevik Leninist close group Gerard Rosenthal.
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Fred Zeller was excluded from the Secretary General of Young Socialists of the Seine, by the leadership of the SFIO after the Mulhouse Congress 1935.
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Fred Zeller was part of, and led, the National Republican Movement alongside Henri Sellier and others.
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Fred Zeller then withdrew progressively from activism to devote himself to painting, painting mainly surrealism and symbolism.
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In 1953 he received the lodge "Masonic Vanguard" of the Masonic of the Grand Orient of France, Fred Zeller was elected Grand Master of GODF in 1971, a position he held until 1973.
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Fred Zeller became a Member of the Socialist Party in 1957, he created the brotherly Study Circle and Socialist Action, led by former Trotskyists, and serves as a bridge between the Grand Orient and the SFIO.
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Fred Zeller died on 7 February 2003 in Bergerac, aged ninety years.
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In 2012, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France, Guy Arcizet inaugurates the Paris headquarters of the Masonic a plaque commemorating the work of Fred Zeller, calling him "the initiator of the externalization of the work of the Grand Orient of France," said Guy Arcizet on this occasion.