Joseph Merlot

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Joseph Jules Merlot (born September 14, 1886 in Seraing , Liege Province , Belgium , † January 31, 1959 ) was a Belgian politician of the Belgian Workers' Party .

biography

Merlot began his national political career as a candidate for the Belgian Labor Party in 1924 when he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies , in which he represented the interests of the Liège district until 1958 .

In 1936 he was appointed Minister for Public Works and Unemployment Reduction by Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland and held this office under Zeeland's successor Paul-Émile Janson until May 1938. Between May 1938 and February 1939 he was Minister of the Interior and Minister of Public Health in the first cabinet headed by Paul-Henri Spaak .

During the Second World War he was active in the resistance against the German occupation forces . After he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 , he was in Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen until the end of the war .

After the end of the Second World War he became one of the leading figures in the Walloon movement and was chairman of the Walloon National Congress in October 1945.

On September 3, 1945, along with several other politicians, he received the honorary title of Minister of State for his political services .

In March 1948 he was again Minister of the Interior and Minister of Public Health in the second Spaak government, which was in office for only eighteen days. He was then from 1946 to 1948 budget minister in the government of Camille Huysmans and in the third Spaak cabinet. Most recently he was Minister for General Administration and Pensions in this government between 1948 and 1949.

His son Jean-Joseph Merlot was not only the long-time mayor of Seraing and a member of parliament, but also a minister and, for a short time, deputy prime minister.

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SURNAME Merlot, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merlot, Joseph Jules (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Seraing , Liege Province , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1959