Victor Abens

Victor "Vic" Abens (born October 16, 1912 in Vianden ; † January 14, 1993 in Liège ) was a Luxembourg resistance fighter and politician of the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP), who was among other things a member of the European Parliament between 1979 and 1989 .

Life

Resistance fighters

After attending primary school and the Lycée classique de Diekirch , Abens worked in the office of lawyer Alphonse Greisch, who was also mayor of Diekirch at times, until the outbreak of World War II . He then joined the Letzeburger Vollekslegio'n (LVL) resistance movement against the German occupation forces , led by Tony Noesen in Vianden, and was arrested on September 1, 1942, and after interrogation in the Villa Pauly , the Gestapo headquarters in Luxembourg, was transferred to the SS -Special camp brought to Hinzert . He spent the next few months in prisons in Trier , Cologne , Berlin , Hanover and Warsaw before he was imprisoned in Posen in January 1943 and then in Lublin in March 1943 . In March 1944 he was supposed to return to Villa Pauly for further interrogations, but he managed to escape and subsequently lived underground in Diekirch and Vianden until the end of the war .

Politician

After the Second World War, Abens began his political career in the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei and in 1945 he was elected a member of the Chambre des Députés (Chamber of Deputies) , to which he belonged until 1981.

In addition, he was elected to the local council of Vianden in the local elections on October 7, 1945 . After the death of Mayor Edouard Wolff, he became mayor of Vianden in 1946 and held this office until his resignation in 1981. In his political mandates after the Second World War he was particularly committed to the reconstruction of the Ösling , the northern part of Luxembourg. Between 1963 and 1973 he was President of the Union Grand-Duc Adolphe (UGDA), an organization promoting music in Luxembourg. In addition, he was committed to his hometown and was among other things co-founder of the association "Geschichtsfreunde von Vianden" ( Veiner Geschichtsfrënn ), of which he was chairman from 1973 to 1984, and as chairman of the association "Schlossfreunde von Vianden" ( Veiner Schloossfrënn ), its chairman was from 1978 to 1992.

After being an alternate member from 1964 to 1972, he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe between 1972 and 1979 . After that, Abens 1979 was elected as a candidate of the LSAP for member of the European Parliament, and belonged to this during the first and second electoral periods until 1989. During this time he was also deputy chairman of the Socialist Group between 1984 and 1987 .

Abens has received several awards for his many years of political merit, including the Croix de guerre , the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown , the Great Federal Cross of Merit , the Officer's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau and the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire .

Web links

• Entry on Victor Abens in the European Parliament 's database of deputies