Leo Tindemans
April 16, 1922 in Zwijndrecht , Province of Antwerp ; † December 26, 2014 in Edegem , Province of Antwerp) was Prime Minister of Belgium from April 25, 1974 to October 20, 1978 .
Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans (bornLife
He first studied at the Sankt-Ignatius-Handelshochschule in Antwerp , then after the end of the Second World War economics at the University of Ghent . Later he taught at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .
From 1965 to 1973 he was mayor of Edegem. At the same time he was Minister for Community Relations from 1968 to 1972 and Minister for Agriculture and Small Enterprises in the governments of Gaston Eyskens from 1972 to 1973 . From 1973 to 1974 he was Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Edmond Leburton and was also responsible for the state budget. As his successor, he was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1978.
When the European People's Party was founded on July 8, 1976 , he was elected its first president. In the same year he received the Charlemagne Prize . He conjured the “ European community of fate ” as the “strongest economic power ” in the world. On October 7, 1980, Tindemans was re-elected as chairman of the EPP . From 1979 to 1981 and 1989 to 1999 he was a member of the European Parliament . Between 1981 and 1989 he was Belgian Foreign Minister in the governments of Wilfried Martens .
Honors
- 1976: Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen on May 27, 1976
- 1977: St. Liborius Medal for Unity and Peace of the Archdiocese of Paderborn
- 1978: European Charlemagne Prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft
- 1980: Robert Schuman Prize
- 1993: European Craft Prize
- 1994: Heinrich Brauns Prize
Publications (selection)
- De memoires. Gedreven door een overtuiging . Lannoo, Tielt 2003, ISBN 90-209-4994-2
- Een politiek will. Mijn plaats in de tijd - Dagboek van een minister . Lannoo, Tielt 2009, ISBN 978-90-209-7377-8
literature
- Leo Tindemans , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1994 of December 5, 1994, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Literature by and about Leo Tindemans in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Leo Tindemans in the Members' database of the European Parliament
- Oud-premier Leo Tindemans overleden , standaard.be, 26 December 2014
- How was Leo Tindemans, de man van een miljoen? , demorgen.be, December 26, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ L'ancien Premier ministre Leo Tindemans est décédé ( French ) lesoir.be. December 26, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
- ↑ European Craft Prize. North Rhine-Westphalian Crafts Day V., accessed December 26, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tindemans, Leo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tindemans, Leonard Clemence (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Prime Minister, MEP |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwijndrecht , Antwerp Province |
DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2014 |
Place of death | Edegem |