Bert Van Hoorick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian politician
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Place of Birth: Aalst, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Bert Van Hoorick
- Bert Van Hoorick (31 January 1915 – 19 February 2000) was a Belgian politician and writer.
- He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1946 up to 1949 and from 1958 until 1976.
- When 18 years old, he joined the Belgian socialist party and also the Socialist Anti-War Lique and in the late thirties the Communist Party of Belgium, of which he became a leading member. During the second world war Van Hoorick became a member of the resistance.
- He was apprehended by the Nazis in January 1943 and imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps of Breendonk and Buchenwald.
- After the war he became chief editor of De Rode Vaan, the journal of the Belgian communist party.
- In 1946 he was elected to the municipal council of Aalst and to the Belgian parliament.
- After the events of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he broke with the communist party and in January 1957 he became a member of the Belgian socialist party.
- In 1958, he became a member of parliament for the socialist party, and he held this mandate until 1976.
- From 1971 up to 1974 he was also secretary of the parliament.
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