Jean Gol

Jean Gol (born February 8, 1942 in Hammersmith , England , † September 17, 1995 in Liège , Province of Liège , Belgium ) was a Belgian politician .

biography

Studies and professional career

Gol was born to a married Jewish couple in England, where his parents lived as refugees during the Second World War . He studied from 1959 to 1964 jurisprudence and was after the promotion to Doctor of Law and the admission to the lawyer initially researchers followed 1,965 to 1,969 candidates in the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) of the Inter-University Center for Public Law .

In 1969 he obtained a degree in advanced studies and law from the University of Liège and then took up a position as a research assistant at the chair of public law of François Perin , whose “intellectual foster son” he became. He then set up as a lawyer in Liège and specialized in international commercial law with his law firm . In 1974 he also became a lecturer at the University of Liège.

Political career

In addition, he began his political career in 1968 as a member of the Council of the Province of Liège, in which he represented the interests of the Wallon Rassemblement . He was also a deputy of the Provincial Council for Liège. Later he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies .

In 1974, as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs of Wallonia, he was briefly a member of Prime Minister Leo Tindemans' cabinet .

After the RW under the influence of Paul-Henry Gendebien increasingly moved closer to the left political camp , he left the RW in 1976 together with François Perin, Philippe Monfils and Étienne Knoops disappointed and founded the Parti pour les Réformes et la Liberté de Wallonie with them (PRLw).

In 1979, Jean Gol was one of the co-founders of the Parti Réformateur Libéral (PRL) , which emerged from the Parti des réformes et de la liberté de Wallonie (PLRw) and, as the successor to André Damseaux, was also chairman of the PRL until 1981.

On December 17, 1981, Prime Minister Wilfried Martens appointed him Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice and Institutional Reforms, and he also held this position in the sixth and seventh Martens governments until May 9, 1988. Most recently, Didier Reynders , the current chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur , was his head of cabinet in the Ministry of Justice from 1987 to 1988.

As the successor to Willy De Clercq , the Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Policy in the first EU Commission Delors , he was also Minister for Foreign Trade between January 9th and November 28th 1985 .

Jean Gol, who was one of the early leading political figures in the Walloon Region , was honored with the honorary title of Minister of State for his political services on May 26, 1992 .

In 1992 he also ran successfully again for the office of chairman of the PRL and succeeded the previous co-chairmen Antoine Duquesne and Daniel Ducarme as the new party chairman. He held this office until his death. During this time, a new party program was adopted in 1992/93 and the party was made more attractive through an electoral alliance with the Front démocratique des francophones (FDF).

The Parc Jean Gol in Chaudfontaine was named in his honor. The Center Jean Gol , the scientific center of the two liberal parties Mouvement Réformateur and Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats (Open VLD) , also bears his name. The University of Liège Study Foundation also bears his name.

Web links

• NEW YORK TIMES: Jean Gol, Belgian Politician, 53 (obituary, September 20, 1995)
• Short biography
• rulers.org
• Entry for Jean Gol in the database of Members of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Udo Zolleis: Between anarchy and strategy: the success of party organizations. 2005, ISBN 3-531-14578-9 , pp. 262, 274.
2. ↑ Homepage of the Center Jean Gol ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Fondation Jean Gol