Paul Pastur
Paul Pastur is a Belgian politician , born with Marcinelle on February 1st, 1866 and deceased in Charleroi on June 8th, 1938. permanent Deputy of the Province of Hainaut, he is the founder of the provincial teaching of Hainaut.
After the riots of 1886 which mark it deeply (it defends 27 workmen implied in the strike), it founds in 1892 with Jules Destrée the Democratic movement of which he is the secretary. The following year, after having obtained its doctorate in right to the University of Liege, it is registered as lawyer with the bar of Charleroi. It is its political career within the Parti working Belgian who will make it famous.
In 1901, the provincial Conseil of Hainaut adopts its project of industrial school. This one opens its doors in 1903. Its goal is “to spread, by average intensives, in all the professional layers, the scientific and technical instruction useful for the advance and the progress of industries and the trades”.
The Université of Work Paul Pastur of Charleroi is inaugurated on May 28th, 1911.
Paul Pastur will put all works about it to develop the provincial teaching of Hainaut, especially in the technical field and professional. He will be at the origin of the School of the textile and of hosiery of Tournai, the École of agriculture and breeding to Ath, of the provincial Institute of the blind men with Ghlin, and well of others still.
In parallel, it creates in 1919 the provincial Commission of the leisures of the workman, intended “to seek and organize the means of ensuring the workman the healthy, pleasant and useful use of its time of leisure”.
In 1927, it introduces a festival of the moms, last Sunday of May. This new practice is adopted everywhere in the country, ten years later.
Friend and colleague of Jules Destrée he pled as him in favor of the Wallonia considering that its autonomy could be based on the provinces and the communes, the Central state keeping great competences of organization. It is for this reason that it appears in the Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement
Paul Pastur dies the June 8th 1938. The funeral urn rests beside that of Jules Destrée, deceased in January 1936; on the vault these words are engraved: “The families Pastur and Destrée, plain in the life, joined together in death. ”
Paul Pastur was a Franc-maçon, and a member of the Grand the East of Belgium.
Its currency was: “That imports, straight! ”
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