Max Buset

Max Buset (born January 31, 1896 in Fayt-lez-Manage , Hainaut , Belgium , † June 28, 1959 in Haine-Saint-Paul , Hainaut) was a Belgian politician and the first chairman of the Belgian Socialist Party (BSP) .

biography

After attending school, he studied economics and graduated with a licentiate . Then he worked as a teacher .

He began his political career as a candidate for the Belgian Workers' Party in 1932 when he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies , in which he represented the interests of the Arrondissement of Thuin until his death . From 1952 to 1954 he was delegated by the Chamber of Deputies to the Common Assembly of the ECSC .

After the end of the Second World War he was elected first chairman of the Belgian Socialist Party, the successor organization to the Belgian Workers' Party. In his function as party chairman, he was particularly an opponent of Paul-Henri Spaak .

On July 21, 1948, he was awarded the honorary title of Minister of State for his political services . On August 16, 1949, he announced that his party would see King Leopold III return . I will try to prevent it at all costs. This attitude was later also represented by the BSP in public protests.

After his death, the former Minister of Education, Léo Collard , succeeded him as chairman of the BSP.

Publications

Source Europe? , in: Le Peuple , February 27-28, 1949, p. 1

Individual evidence

^ Documents on the History of European Integration: The struggle for European Union by political parties and pressure groups in western European countries, 1945-1950 . In: Walter Lipgens, Wilfried Loth (Eds.): Documents on the history of European integration . tape 3 . Walter De Gruyter, Berlin; New York 1988, ISBN 3-11-011429-1 , pp. 319 (English, 849 pages, limited preview in Google Book search).

↑ CHRONIKNET.DE August 16, 1949

↑ Grâce-Berleur et la Question Royale - 30 June 1950. Massacre à Grâce-Berleur! ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Buset, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fayt-lez-Manage, Hainaut, Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 1959
Place of death	Haine-Saint-Paul, Hainaut, Belgium

[1] Documents on the History of European Integration: The struggle for European Union by political parties and pressure groups in western European countries, 1945-1950 . In: Walter Lipgens, Wilfried Loth (Eds.): Documents on the history of European integration . tape 3 . Walter De Gruyter, Berlin; New York 1988, ISBN 3-11-011429-1 , pp. 319 (English, 849 pages, limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] CHRONIKNET.DE August 16, 1949