Metadata: Jean Gol and Georges Delnoz
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Liège
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives de l’État à Liège
- Postal address:
- Rue du Chéra 79, 4000 Liège
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)4 252 03 93
- Email:
- archives.liege@arch.be
- Reference number:
- SA-Liege-523-4522
- Title:
- Jean Gol and Georges Delnoz
- Title (official language):
- Jean Gol et Georges Delnoz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gol, Jean
- Date(s):
- 1968/1990
- Date note:
- ca. 1970-1988
- Extent:
- 16.12 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds, for which no finding aid exists at the time of writing, consists mostly of archival material produced by Jean Gol and Georges Delnoz as a result of their capacity as lawyers. The fonds contains ca. 2,798 files in total.
- Archival history:
- Donation in 1988.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jean Gol (1942-1995) was a lawyer and liberal politician. After law school he was inscribed at the Bar in Liège (1964). He combined his work as a lawyer with his function as teacher at the ULG (since 1974). Gol’s political career started with his involvement with the left-Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair. He was the leader of the socialist students, the Belgian representative of the Union Mondiale des Étudiants juifs and the vice president of the Mouvement universitaire belge d’Expression française. Initially a member of the Belgian socialist party (1962-1964), Gol became active in the early 1970s in Walloon-federalist political formations. He was elected, in 1971, for the Rassemblement Wallon (representing Liège). Gol held the function of staatssecretaris for the Walloon economy in the Tindemans government (1974). He left the party in 1976 and joined the liberal Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès Wallon. Gol soon became the president of the Parti Réformateur Libéral (1981). That same year his party was included in the government and he held the function of vice prime minister. He was also appointed Minister of Justice, Institutional Reform and (from 1985) Foreign Trade. In 1992 Gol was appointed Minister of State. He left parliament for the European Parliament in 1994. Gol was an active member of the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif – he was a frequent contributor to its periodical Regards and also involved in the Comité pour une Paix négociée entre Israël et les Pays arabes. Jean Gol died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1995. (J.-P. Schreiber , “Gol, Jean”, in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Brussel, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 126-127.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Delnoz, Georges
- Gol, Jean
- Subject terms:
- Professions
- Professions--Lawyers
- Access, restrictions:
- The archives are closed until 30 May 2088.
- Finding aids:
- A short description can be found in P. Bertholet, “Gol (Jean-) et Delnoz (Georges)”, in P. Bertholet, Inventaire des archives des individus: Hommes d’état, savants, artistes, T 46 (Archives de l’État à Liège), Brussel, ARA-AGR, 1998, p. 72.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
