Arthur Wauters

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Amsab - Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Scope and content:: We note two relevant files in this fonds. File no. 257 contains documents concerning antisemitism; we find issues of antisemitic periodicals, in this case Service Mondial (May 1938 and November 1939) and l’Antijuif (1938), the periodical of Volksverwering/Défense du Peuple. This file also contains an undated report on the antisemitic organisation l’Internationale Raciste Paneuropéenne. File no. 258 contains an annotated version of the article l’Apport des réfugiés allemands à l’économie belge (1939) by Kopel Liberman.

Archival history:: The fonds was donated (returned) to Amsab-ISG in 2002, together with a number of other so-called ‘Moscow-archives’.

Administrative/biographical history:: Arthur Wauters (1890-1960) held a PhD in economics and became a professor at the ULB in 1930. He formed part of the leadership of the Belgische Werklieden Partij (1932-1933 and 1935-1936) and presided over the commission of inquiry on the bankruptcy of the Belgian Bank van de Arbeid. Wauters was a co-opted senator (1932) and member of parliament (1936-1944). He held various ministerial posts in the interwar and immediate post-war period, i.a. Public Health (1937-1939), Labour and Social Security (1939), National Information (1939-1940) and Agriculture (1946). At the end of his career, Wauters served as minister plenipotentiary in Warsaw (1949-1950) and ambassador in Moscow (1952-1955). (Y.-W. Delzenne & J. Houyoux (dir.), Le nouveau dictionnaire des belges, Brussel, Le Cri, 1998, vol. 2, p. 335; M. Vandenbroucke, Inventaris van het archief van Arthur Wauters, Gent, Amsab-ISG, 2009.)

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic publications; Refugees

Finding aids:: M. Vandenbroucke, Inventaris van het archief van Arthur Wauters, Gent, Amsab-ISG, 2009.