Paul-Willem Segers

Paul-Willem Segers (born December 21, 1900 in Antwerp , † February 5, 1983 there ) was a Belgian politician .

PW Segers (1959)

Life

Segers initially worked as a social worker and then from 1927 to 1946 secretary of the General Christian Workers' Association (Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond, ACW). At the same time he was later also chairman of the Volksversicherung (De Volksverzekering) and the BAC-Bank (Centrale Depositokas). In 1941 he was the founder of the Christian Workers' Movement (Kristelijke Werknemersbewegung, KWB).

He began his political career as Schepen in his native Antwerp from 1939 to 1947.

In 1949 he was elected a member of the Senate . There he represented the interests of the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CVP) until 1971 .

In the same year, in August 1949, Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens appointed him Minister of Transport in his cabinet. He also held the post of Minister of Transport in the subsequent governments of Jean Duvieusart , Joseph Pholien and Jean Van Houtte until April 1954.

Prime Minister Eyskens reappointed him as Minister of Transport in his government, which ran from June 1958 to April 1961. He was then Minister of Defense in the cabinet of Prime Minister Théo Lefèvre until July 1965 .

During the term of office of Prime Minister Pierre Harmel between July 1965 and March, he was in charge of the government's social coordination as a so-called "Ondervoorzitter". The task he was subsequently given to form a new government failed, so that Paul Vanden Boeynants became prime minister.

Nevertheless, on July 12, 1966, he was awarded the honorary title of Minister of State with a number of other former ministers . As such, he remained a valued advisor on political and social issues in the years that followed.

After the end of Boeynant's tenure on June 17, 1968, he was again charged with forming a government. This time, too, he does not succeed. In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Eyskens, however, he was again Minister of Defense and held this office until 1972.