Jean-François Thiriart

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Jean-François Thiriart (born March 22, 1922 in Brussels ; † November 23, 1992 ) was a Belgian politician of the New Right , geopolitical thinker and founder of the Jeune Europe movement (French "Young Europe"), which apart from France also operates in Italy and Spain formed offshoots.

Life

Originally inclined towards socialism , Jean Thiriart developed national sympathies at a young age and advocated a non- Marxist socialism. In 1939 he joined the Legion Nationale , a right-wing organization that sympathized with the German Reich and collaborated with Germany during the Second World War . Thiriart himself fought as a parachutist on the German side during the World War . After the war, Thiriart had to spend some time in prison because of his collaboration.

Thiriart was one of the first New Right ideologues to reject Cold War bloc thinking . His idea of ​​Europe was expressed in the phrase “Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok”. He represented this concept in numerous books, which had an influence on the intellectual rights of numerous European countries. Thiriart's main work is Un empire de 400 millions d'hommes: l'Europe (1964), which has also been translated into other languages. In 1965 he founded the Parti Communautaire Européen , which was renamed Parti Communautaire National-Européen (PCN) in 1984 .

Jean Thiriart died unexpectedly of a heart attack on November 23, 1992 at the age of 70 . Carlo Terracciano wrote an extensive obituary which also illustrates Thiriart's importance for Italian law .

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SURNAME Thiriart, Jean-François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiriart, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian New Right politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1992