Neil Marten

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Sir Neil Marten ( 3. December 1916 - 1986 ) was from 1959 to 1983 British Member of the conservative Tories .

In the Second World War he served as a soldier and was brought behind the German lines as a parachutist to support the French Resistance .

He was head of the National Referendum Campaign (NRC ) at the time of the British referendum in 1975. He thus represented a negative attitude to the United Kingdom in the European Community, which it had only acceded in 1971. He saw the European Community as a federated union of states under which one would lose one's national independence:

"To be or not to be a Federal State - that is the question. To be or not to be an independent country. "

- Neil Marten (1975) : Robert Saunders: Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, Cambridge 2018, p. 130.

On January 6, 1983, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II .

Marten had a daughter, Mary-Louise, who ran the NRC's office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UK Parliament: Historic Hansard: Mr Neil Marten. In: Historic Hansard. UK Parliament, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Robert Saunders: Yes to Europe !? The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018, pp. 11 .
  3. ^ Neil Marten, May 1975
  4. ^ The London Gazette: No. 49235. In: The London Gazette. The Gazette, January 14, 1983, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Robert Saunders: Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018, pp. 135 .
personal data
SURNAME Marten, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1916
DATE OF DEATH 1986