Oliver Paasch

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Oliver Paasch, 2019

Oliver Paasch (born October 21, 1971 in Malmedy ) is a Belgian politician on the ProDG (“Pro German-speaking Community ”) free citizen list . He has been Minister in the Government of the German-speaking Community since 2004 and its Prime Minister since June 30, 2014 . He chaired ProDG, the unofficial successor of the PJU- PDB party , from its foundation in June 2008 until the beginning of 2013.

Life

Oliver Paasch is the eldest son of the former PDB politician Lorenz Paasch and brother of the FIAN activist Armin Paasch.

Paasch studied at the Universities of Namur ( FUNDP ) and Louvain-la-Neuve ( UCL ). In 1995 he obtained a licentiate in rights. This was followed by training at the banks Crédit Général (Namur) and ABB ( Brussels ). From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a credit analyst at Crédit Général in Liège , after which he became branch manager of the same bank in Malmedy for one year. He then worked as a management consultant and deputy director of the CBC Bank's business center in Verviers until 2003 , after which he rose to the post of director for a year.

His interest in politics began while studying in Namur, where Paasch was president of the general student union. From 1993 to 1994 he took over the presidency of the Association of German-Speaking Students (Eumavia) at the Catholic University of Leuven in New Leuven, where he was Vice-President of the Association of Walloon Students in 1994 and 1995.

In 1994 he was one of the founding members of the movement “Youth for Europe” (Juropa), which entered into a party alliance with the PDB in view of the elections for the Council of the German-speaking Community . About three years later, in 1997, Oliver Paasch became a member of the Council (today: Parliament) of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. He has been a member of the government of the German-speaking Community since 2004, initially as Minister for Education and Scientific Research and from June 2009 as Minister for Education, Training and Employment. The ProDG emerged as the big winner in the 2014 community elections . Oliver Paasch continued the alliance with socialists ( SP ) and liberals ( PFF ), but at the same time replaced Karl-Heinz Lambertz (SP) from the government chairmanship and since then has led the government as prime minister.

Paasch is married to the presenter Heike Verheggen and has two children.

Overview of political offices

  • 1997 - today : Member of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community
  • 2004 - 2009: Minister of the German-speaking Community for Education and Scientific Research
  • 2009 - 2014: Minister of the German-speaking Community for Education, Training and Employment
  • 2014 - today : Prime Minister of the Government of the German-speaking Community

Web links

Commons : Oliver Paasch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ grenzecho.net: Clemens Scholzen and Freddy Cremer new ProDG tandem (February 4, 2013).
  2. ↑ grenzecho.net: Oliver Paasch father of twins (January 26, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Paasch, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician, Prime Minister of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmedy