Hugo Schiltz
Hugo Schiltz (born October 27, 1927 in Borsbeek , † August 5, 2006 in Antwerp ) was a Belgian lawyer and politician . As a Flemish he was a member of the dissolved Volksunie party and its successor organization SPIRIT , a member of parliament and later in the Senate , and was a minister in two cabinets, from 1981 to 1985 in the first Flemish government and from 1988 to 1991 in the Belgian federal government under Wilfried Martens .
Career
During the Second World War , Schiltz was a member of the National Socialist Youth of Flanders. This earned him a prison sentence of several months after the war.
He studied law , economics and philosophy at the Catholic University in Leuven , and became a member of the Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudenten Verbond , a university association of Catholic students from Flanders. In 1953 he became a lawyer and lecturer in business law. In 1958 he was elected to the city parliament of Antwerp - an office he held until 1998. In 1963 he joined the Volksunie party , of which he was to become chairman from 1975 to 1979. Under his aegis, the party took on a more left-liberal orientation. He took part in the draft of the Egmont Pact , the non- ratification of which by parliament broke the government. The new, more left-liberal orientation of the Volksunie, and the collaboration in the Egmont Pact, were the main reasons for the split in the Volksunie. The radical, right-wing wing of Volksunie split off and founded two new parties: the Vlaams Nationale Partij (Flemish National Party, VNP), led by Karel Dillen and the Vlaamse Volkspartij (Flemish Peoples Party, VVP) with Senator Claes on the top. The merger of these splinter parties later became the Vlaams Blok and finally Vlaams Belang . After the Volksunie split into N-VA and SPIRIT in 2001 , Schiltz joined the latter.
meaning
Together with Wilfried Martens and Jean-Luc Dehaene , Hugo Schiltz was largely responsible for the transformation of Belgium into a federal state. From 1994 to 1998 Schiltz was Finance Senator of Antwerp in an anti-Vlaams Blok coalition, and in 1995 he received the honorary title of Minister of State from the Belgian king .
Hugo Schiltz died of leukemia on August 5, 2006 in Antwerp . He is buried on the Schoonselhof .
Web link
- Hugo Schiltz in ars-moriendi.be
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiltz, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borsbeek |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 2006 |
| Place of death | Antwerp |