José Desmarets

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José Desmarets (born September 16, 1925 in Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek , Belgium , † August 9, 2019 in Uccle ) was a Belgian politician .

biography

José's father Léon Desmarets was a member of the Belgian resistance against National Socialism . From November 1943, Léon and José Desmarets hid the Jew Michel Vindsberg for several months at home. After a confidante was arrested in early 1944, the hiding person's whereabouts became increasingly unsafe, which is why José Desmarets took him to another, safer hiding place. For his work to save Vindsberg from the Holocaust , father and son Desmarets were honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in 1982.

Desmarets studied after school attendance law and graduated with a doctorate to the doctor of jurisprudence from. He then completed postgraduate studies in political and social sciences , which he completed with a licentiate .

He began his political career with the election of a member of the municipal council of Uccle / Ukkel , one of the 19 municipalities in the Brussels-Capital Region . Later he was alderman ( Schepen ) of the city.

In 1971 he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies as a candidate for the Parti social chrétien (PSC) . In this he represented the interests of the constituency of the arrondissement of Brussels until 1985 . From 1985 to 1987 he was a member of the Senate . Within the PSC, he belonged to the political rights attributable conservative to wing CEPIC.

On April 3, 1979 he was appointed by Prime Minister Wilfried Martens to be Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense in his cabinet. As part of a government reshuffle, he handed the office of Secretary of Defense to Charles Poswick in 1980 and was briefly Minister of Science himself . He was then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Small Business and Planning until the end of Martens' term on April 6, 1981 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Desmarets, ancien ministre de la Défense, est décédé lalibre.be, accessed on 11 August 2019
  2. ^ Yad Vashem (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations - Belgium . Jerusalem 2005; P. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Desmarets, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2019
Place of death Uccle