Ferdel Schröder

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Ferdel Schröder (born October 29, 1947 in Solingen ; † January 4, 2013 in Eupen ) was a Belgian politician of the Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF) or Mouvement Réformateur (MR). He has been a member of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community (PDG) since 1999 and President of this Parliament since 2010.

Life

Ferdel Schröder's parents ran a shoemaker's shop in St. Vith , which as part of Eupen-Malmedy had belonged to Belgium since 1920 and was re-incorporated into the German Reich in 1940 . In 1944, before the city was destroyed in December in the course of the Ardennes offensive , they were evacuated to the Reich , where they lived in the immediate post-war period and where Ferdel Schröder was born in Solingen in 1947. However, the family returned to the war-torn, now Belgian St. Vith, where Ferdel Schröder attended the Episcopal School and in 1964 obtained his university entrance qualification with a focus on Latin and Greek . He studied in Leuven , where he obtained a degree in educational science and psychology (1969 and 1970 at the Catholic University of Leuven ).

In 1969 he started working as a psychologist at the Psycho-Medical-Social Center in Verviers and then headed the Psycho-Medical-Social Center of the German-speaking Community ("PMS Center of the DG") in Eupen from 1971 to 2010 . In 1987 he also completed training in integrative gestalt therapy and child and adolescent psychotherapy at the Fritz Perls Institute in Düsseldorf .

His political career began when he was elected President of the JFF (Youth for Freedom and Progress). From 1995 to 2009 he was regional president of the Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF) and from 2002 to 2009 vice-president of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). He handed over these offices to Kattrin Jadin in 2009 . At the local level, he was a member of the Eupen city council from 1988 to 2010 and was school and tourism magistrate under Mayor Fred Evers from 1994 to 2000 .

On July 6, 1999, he entered the Council of the German-speaking Community for the first time and immediately became 2nd Vice President and Group Chairman of the PFF. On February 1, 2010, Parliament elected him ninth President of this Assembly; he thus replaced Louis Siquet . He held this office until his death.

family

Ferdel Schröder met his future wife Brigitte Mostert in Eupen, who died in 2007. They left two children.

Overview of political offices

  • 1988–2010: Member of the Eupen City Council
  • 1994–2000: School and tourism aldermen in the Eupen mayor and aldermen college
  • 1999–2013: Member of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community
  • 2010–2013: President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Ferdel Schröder BRF , January 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b DG Parliament President Ferdel Schröder is dead . Belgium info, undated (January 2013), accessed July 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ PDG President Ferdel Schröder died in BRF , January 4, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Ferdel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician (PFF, MR)
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2013
Place of death Eupen