Edward Anseele Jr.

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Edward Anseele Jr. (* March 21, 1902 in Ghent ; † June 28, 1981 in Sint-Martens-Latem ) was a Belgian socialist politician and resistance fighter .

Edward Anseele Jr. was born the son of the Belgian politician Edward Anseele . He studied civil engineering and was elected to the local council of Ghent in 1933 for the Belgian Workers' Party . He has been elected mayor's deputy several times. On May 24, 1936 he became a member of the Belgian Parliament for the Labor Party.

Anseele fought in the International Brigades against the fascists during the Spanish Civil War . After the Wehrmacht invaded Belgium in 1940, he helped reorganize the Belgian Workers' Party , which had been dissolved by its chairman Henri de Man , from 1941 onwards . Together with Achille Van Acker and others, he founded illegal party offices in Flanders and, from March 1942, in Brussels and Wallonia . After the liberation of Ghent in 1944, he was elected mayor of the city.

From 1954 to 1958 and again in 1973 he was Minister for Transport; from 1963 to 1966 and again from 1968 to 1973 Minister for Communications. In the Belgian Socialist Party , newly founded as the successor to the Belgian Workers' Party , he took on leading positions; from 1946 to 1976 he was chairman of the BSP federation Gent-Eeklo , from 1954 to 1958 deputy chairman of the entire party and at times also chairman of the BSP parliamentary group in the Belgian parliament.

Awards

• 1970: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)