Leo Tindemans

Leo Tindemans (2006)

Listen to Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans ^?^/ⁱ (born April 16, 1922 in Zwijndrecht , Province of Antwerp ; † December 26, 2014 in Edegem , Province of Antwerp) was Prime Minister of Belgium from April 25, 1974 to October 20, 1978 .

Life

He first studied at the Sankt-Ignatius-Handelshochschule in Antwerp , then after the end of the Second World War economics at the University of Ghent . Later he taught at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

From 1965 to 1973 he was mayor of Edegem. At the same time he was Minister for Community Relations from 1968 to 1972 and Minister for Agriculture and Small Enterprises in the governments of Gaston Eyskens from 1972 to 1973 . From 1973 to 1974 he was Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Edmond Leburton and was also responsible for the state budget. As his successor, he was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1978.

When the European People's Party was founded on July 8, 1976 , he was elected its first president. In the same year he received the Charlemagne Prize . He conjured the “ European community of fate ” as the “strongest economic power ” in the world. On October 7, 1980, Tindemans was re-elected as chairman of the EPP . From 1979 to 1981 and 1989 to 1999 he was a member of the European Parliament . Between 1981 and 1989 he was Belgian Foreign Minister in the governments of Wilfried Martens .

Honors

1976: Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen on May 27, 1976
1977: St. Liborius Medal for Unity and Peace of the Archdiocese of Paderborn
1978: European Charlemagne Prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft
1980: Robert Schuman Prize
1993: European Craft Prize
1994: Heinrich Brauns Prize

Publications (selection)

De memoires. Gedreven door een overtuiging . Lannoo, Tielt 2003, ISBN 90-209-4994-2
Een politiek will. Mijn plaats in de tijd - Dagboek van een minister . Lannoo, Tielt 2009, ISBN 978-90-209-7377-8

literature

Leo Tindemans , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1994 of December 5, 1994, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Leo Tindemans - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Leo Tindemans in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Leo Tindemans in the Members' database of the European Parliament
Oud-premier Leo Tindemans overleden , standaard.be, 26 December 2014
How was Leo Tindemans, de man van een miljoen? , demorgen.be, December 26, 2014

Individual evidence

^ L'ancien Premier ministre Leo Tindemans est décédé ( French ) lesoir.be. December 26, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
↑ European Craft Prize. North Rhine-Westphalian Crafts Day V., accessed December 26, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tindemans, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tindemans, Leonard Clemence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian Prime Minister, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zwijndrecht , Antwerp Province
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 2014
Place of death	Edegem

[1] L'ancien Premier ministre Leo Tindemans est décédé ( French ) lesoir.be. December 26, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.

[2] European Craft Prize. North Rhine-Westphalian Crafts Day V., accessed December 26, 2014 .