Octave Dierckx

Octave Victor Anna Dierckx (born October 15, 1882 in Antwerp , Flanders , Belgium ; † March 21, 1955 in Uccle / Ukkel , Brussels-Capital Region , Belgium) was a Belgian politician of the Liberal Party and several times a minister.

biography

After attending school, he studied law and worked as a lawyer after gaining a doctorate in law .

His political career began in 1920 with the election of a member of the municipal council of Ixelles / Elsene . He was also a member of the Council of the then Province of Brabant from 1925 to 1929 . He then became a member of the Senate in 1929 , to which he was a member until his death in 1955.

After he was chairman of the Liberal Party from 1933 to 1934, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Minister for Post, Telephony and Telegraphy (PTT) for the first time in a government by Prime Minister Georges Theunis in 1934 and was a member of this government until 1935. In the cabinet of Prime Minister Paul-Émile Janson , he was Minister of the Interior from November 1937 to May 1938 and Minister of Public Education from 1938 to 1939 in the subsequent government of Paul-Henri Spaak .

For his political merits he was honored with the honorary title of Minister of State on September 3, 1945, along with several other politicians .

Most recently he was in the cabinet of Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens from 1949 to 1950 Minister without Portfolio .

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