Metadata: Belgian commission for the study of post-war problems
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives Générales du Royaume
- Postal address:
- Ruisbroekstraat 2-6 / Rue de Ruysbroeck 2-6, 1000 Brussel
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 513 76 80
- Web address:
- http://www.arch.be/
- Email:
- archives.generales@arch.be
- Reference number:
- NAB-Brussels-510-III.0203
- Title:
- Belgian commission for the study of post-war problems
- Title (official language):
- Commission belge Pour l’Étude des Problèmes d’Après-Guerre
- Creator/accumulator:
- Commissie voor de Studie van de Naoorlogse Problemen; Commission belge pour l’Étude des Problèmes d’Après-Guerre
- Date(s):
- 1941/1944
- Extent:
- 13 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence, notes and reports related to the various problems of the post-war period as well as documents concerning the war, the German administration in Belgium, problems of supply and Belgian foreign policy. In the series of general correspondence, we note the files no. 28 Ivtcher, no. 30 Kirschen, as well as no. 427 (a note by Max Gottschalk on unemployment). In the series ‘secret documents’, we note the file no. 1508 “forced labour and deportations”, no. 1090 “deportations”, no. 1107 “nazification of youth”, no. 1201 “restitution of looted property” and no. 1633 “American Jewish Committee, report on the Jewish population after the Second World War”.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Commissie voor de Studie van de Naoorlogse Problemen - Commission belge pour l’Étude des Problèmes d’Après-Guerre (CEPAG)(‘Commission for the Study of Post-War Problems’) was created in early June 1942 by the Belgian government in exile in London. President of the commission was the Catholic politician and former prime minister Paul Van Zeeland; socialist trade unionist Jef Rens was its secretary-general. The mission of CEPAG was to study and prepare the social, political, economic and fiscal reforms to be made in post-war Belgium. After the war, the projects and propositions of the commission would form the basis of major post-war reforms, such as the Council of State and the establishment of the social security system. (J.-F. Crombois & J. Gotovitch, “Gouvernement de Londres”, in P. Aron & J. Gotovitch, Dictionnaire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Belgique, Brussel, André Versaille, 2008, pp. 211-216.)
- Access points: locations:
- Belgium
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalk, Max
- Finding aids:
- An unpublished typed inventory exists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
