Gaston Geens
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Gaston Geens | |
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Minister-President of Flanders | |
In office 22 December 1981 – 21 January 1992 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Luc Van den Brande |
Personal details | |
Born | Melen, Belgium | 10 June 1931
Died | 5 June 2002 Winksele, Belgium | (aged 70)
Political party | Christian Democratic and Flemish |
Alma mater | Catholic University of Leuven |
Gaston C. S. A. Geens (10 June 1931 – 5 June 2002) was a Belgian politician and minister-president of Flanders.
Geens received a Master in Law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as a licentiate of economy.
In 1961 Geens, together with Frank Swaelen and Leo Tindemans, was part of a think tank of the CVP. In 1972 he became a member of the party leadership. Geens was elected a member of the city council of Winksele in 1970. After Winksele's fusion with Herent in 1976 he became a member of that city council.
In 1974 in a government led by Tindemans, Geens became Secretary of State for the Budget and Science. In 1976 he was promoted to minister but with the same competences. He became Minister of Finance in the second Tindemans cabinet, but this coalition fell over the Egmont pact. He remained Minister of Finance under Paul Vanden Boeynants and in the first two coalitions led by Wilfried Martens. During the third government led by Martens he again became minister of the budget. During Martens IV, Geens became minister-president of the Flemish Executive which he led until 1992.
Geens gave Flanders a new economical identity, by taking the initiative for the Derde Industriële Revolutie in Vlaanderen (Third industrial revolution in Flanders), Flanders Technology and the Flemish Aerospace Group (FLAG).
Gaston Geens was seventy when he died at home due to cardiac arrest. On 30 May 2009, a statue of Geens was unveiled in Aarschot by Herman Van Rompuy.[1]
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- Gaston Geens in ODIS – Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Archives of Gaston Geens in ODIS – Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Archives of Gaston Geens in ODIS – Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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