Marc Drumaux

Marc Drumaux [ drʏˈmoː ] (born May 10, 1922 in Ath ; † November 15, 1972 in Uccle ) was a Belgian politician and a personality of the Belgian workers' and resistance movement.

Life

Youth and Resistance

Drumaux grew up in a family of railway workers. After leaving school in 1941, he began to work for the railroad himself and joined the resistance movement . In 1942 he joined the illegal Communist Party of Belgium (KPB). On behalf of the party, he worked among young people, was involved in the formation of resistance groups and the distribution of illegal publications, and himself took part in the partisan struggle against the German occupation of Belgium.

Party official

After the liberation until 1959 he was a member of the party committee and its secretariat in Tournai . In 1957 he was elected to the Central Committee and in 1960 to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the KPB. From 1963 to 1965 he was also a member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the KPB. In December 1966 he was elected deputy party chairman and chairman of the Walloon party section, and in September 1966 he was elected chairman of the KPB.

MP

From 1961 Drumaux was a member of the Belgian parliament for the arrondissement of Mons , from 1965 to 1968 chairman of the communist parliamentary group .

Web links

• Дрюмо (Drumaux) Марк . In: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian).