Metadata: Victor Leemans archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- KADOC Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society
- Holding institution (official language):
- KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving
- Postal address:
- Vlamingenstraat 39, 3000 Leuven
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)16 32 35 00
- Web address:
- https://kadoc.kuleuven.be/
- Email:
- postmaster@kadoc.kuleuven.be
- Reference number:
- KADOC-Leuven-418
- Title:
- Victor Leemans archives
- Title (official language):
- Archief Victor Leemans
- Creator/accumulator:
- Leemans, Victor
- Date(s):
- 1930/1949
- Extent:
- 4.7 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a number of letters (dated 1940-1941) concerning the illegality of the removal of Jews from public office and the terror against the Jewish population by the SS and the organisation Volksverwering in Antwerp. See file no. 2.24.4.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1936 Victor Leemans (1901-1971) became a member of the Arbeidsorde, a corporatist union founded by REX and the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (VNV). Before that he had been involved with the Flemish nationalist weekly Jong Dietschland (1927-1933). During the Occupation Leemans made a career as a functionary; he became secretary-general of the Ministry of Public Health and Food Provisioning, secretary-general for Economic Affairs and deputy commissioner-general in the Commissariaat voor ‘s Lands Wederopbouw. After the Liberation Leemans was interned and a criminal investigation was opened against him for economic and political collaboration, but the charges were dropped in 1948. After the war Leemans became a publicist, i.a. in the Tijdschrift voor Philosophie, Kultuurleven and the newspaper De Standaard. In addition he worked for the Catholic employers’ organisation Landelijk Algemeen Christelijk Verbond van Werkgevers. Leemans started his political career as a Catholic politician in 1949, in the framework of the ‘verruimingsoperatie’ (policy of broadening) of the Christian democrat party (CVP). He became i.a. a senator (1949), president of the European Commission for Energy, Research and Nuclear Questions (1958), president of the CVP senatorial group (1964) and president of the European Parliament (1965-1966). (S. Gyselinck, “Victor Leemans (1901-1971)”, in ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (accessible on http://www.odis.be))
- Access points: locations:
- Antwerp
- Access points: persons/families:
- Leemans, Victor
- Finding aids:
- P. Daems-Van Ussel, Inventaris van de archivalia van Victor Leemans (1901-1971), Leuven, KADOC, 1987. The finding aid can be found online.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.lias.be
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
