Bernard Berg

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Bernard "Benny" Berg (born September 14, 1931 in Dudelange ; † February 21, 2019 ) was a Luxembourg politician of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party LSAP ( Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei ) , who was minister several times and deputy prime minister between 1976 and 1979.

Life

After attending school, between 1946 and 1949, Berg completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator at the United Steelworks Burbach-Eich-Dudelange ARBED (Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange) at the Dudelange location and worked there as a lathe operator until 1963. At the same time he was involved in the trade union movement and was first secretary and chairman of the works council of ARBED Dudelange and finally chairman of the general works council of ARBED. He was also Vice President and most recently President of the LAV (Lëtzebuerger Aarbechter Association) . In the mid-1950s he also began his involvement in the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party LSAP ( Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei ) and in 1955 became vice-president of their youth organization JSL (Jeunesses socialistes luxembourgeoises) .

In 1969 Berg was elected for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Chambre des Députés ) for the LSAP , to which he initially belonged until 1974. In 1970 he also became a member of the Executive Committee of the LSAP and was also a member of the Dudelange municipal council between 1970 and 1974. On June 15, 1974, he was appointed Minister for Labor and Social Security (Ministre du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale) and Minister for Family, Social Housing and Social Solidarity (Ministre de la Famille, du Logement social et de la Solidarité sociale ) into the Thorn-Vouel government of Prime Minister Gaston Thorn and held these offices until July 16, 1979. At the same time, on July 21, 1976, he took over from Raymond Vouel , who had been appointed Commissioner for Competition of the European Commission , the post of Deputy Prime Minister (Vice-Président du gouvernement) , which he also held until July 16, 1979.

Berg was again a member of the Chambre des Députés between 1979 and 1984 and during this time chairman of the LSAP parliamentary group. He was also vice-president of the LSAP from 1980 to 1985 and again a member of the Dudelange municipal council from 1981 to 1984. On July 20, 1984, he was appointed Minister of Health (Ministre de la Santé) and Minister of Social Security (Ministre de la Sécurité sociale) in the first Santer-Poo government of Prime Minister Jacques Santer . He held the post of Minister of Health until a government reshuffle on July 15, 1988 and then handed this over to Deputy Prime Minister Jacques Poos , while he was Minister of Social Security until the end of the term of office of the first Santer-Poos government on July 14 1989 exercised. He had to resign from the office of health minister because of a black money fund in the Bad Mondorf thermal baths . In 1989, a Chamber of Inquiry found that he had not personally enriched himself and that there was no evidence of fraud against him.

In the 1989 chamber election , Berg was not re-elected. He waived the opportunity to replace Maurice Thoss , who later retired , from which Marc Zanussi benefited. He was then a member of the Board of Directors of Fondatioun Kräizbierg between 1990 and 1995 . In 2012 he acted alongside Joseph Kinsch , Marcel Mart , John Castegnaro and Honorary Minister of State Jacques Santer as an advisor to Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker in the Tripartite negotiations, an economic policy negotiation round in which employers, unions and government representatives alike participate in order to reach a consensus on the diagnosis the current economic situation as well as the prospects for the economic development of the country.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin de documentation 3/1979. Élections législatives et européennes , p. 2 and p. 24. Link to download on the website of the Press and Information Service of the Luxembourg Government, accessed on February 15, 2019 (French)
  2. ↑ These ministers had to resign from office . In: Luxemburger Wort of July 8, 2013
  3. ↑ Personal details : Marc Zanussi d'Lëtzebuerger Land , February 9, 1990, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ “Luxembourg model in danger” . In: Luxemburger Wort of March 15, 2012
  5. ^ A two-year agreement . In: Luxemburger Wort of March 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benny Berg (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dudelange
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2019