Georges Gramme

Georges Nicolas Joseph Gramme (born February 22, 1926 in Battice , † February 7, 1985 in Be'er Scheva , Israel ) was a Belgian politician of the Parti social chrétien (PSC).

Life

After graduating from the College royal Marie-Thérèse in Herve, Gramme studied mathematics at the Collège Saint-Servais in Liège and took over the printing business of his suddenly deceased father a little later. During the Second World War he was active as a resistance fighter.

Gramme was from 1953 to 1976 a member of the local council and from 1959 to 1976 mayor of his home town Battice and after the parish merger from 1977 until his death member of the town council and mayor of the town of Herve . In 1971 he was elected for the first time for the Verviers district in the Belgian Senate , to which he belonged continuously until 1985, from 1977 to 1978 and from 1980 to 1985 as deputy chairman. He was also a member of the Walloon Parliament from 1980 to 1985 .

Between the terms of office of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb , Gramme was acting chairman of the Christian social party PSC from July to December 1974 and from October 1976 to October 1977, which was renamed center démocrate Humaniste (cdH) in 2002 . In May 1977 he was one of the signatories of the Egmont Pact, an agreement made between Flemings, Walloons and Brussels, which, together with the Stuyvenberg Agreement of 1978, provided for a state reform in Belgium. However, the community pact was not implemented and led to the resignation of Prime Minister Leo Tindemans in October 1978 .

From April 3, 1979 to January 16, 1980, Gramme served as Belgian Interior Minister and Minister for Institutional Reform and from January 23 to May 18, 1980 as Minister of Science in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Wilfried Martens . He died in 1985 during a state visit to Israel.

Web links

Paul Delforge: Georges Gramme. Connaître la Wallonie, December 2014, accessed on June 30, 2016 (French).

Individual evidence

↑ Georges Gramme: maïeur de pointe. l'avenir.net, February 4, 2010, accessed June 30, 2016 (French).
^ Egmont Pact. (PDF; 502 kB) De Vlaamse Rand documentation center, accessed on June 30, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gramme, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gramme, Georges Nicolas Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian politician (PSC)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Battice
DATE OF DEATH	7th February 1985
Place of death	Be'er Sheva , Israel

[1] Georges Gramme: maïeur de pointe. l'avenir.net, February 4, 2010, accessed June 30, 2016 (French).

[2] Egmont Pact. (PDF; 502 kB) De Vlaamse Rand documentation center, accessed on June 30, 2016 .