Victor Maistriau
Victor Eugene Angel Jules Maistriau , born with Maurage on October 5th, 1870 and died in Mons on January 21st, 1961, was a liberal politician Belgian.
Maistriau, doctor in right of the University of Ghent, was lawyer at the bar of Mons. During the First World War, it was several times imprisoned by the German authorities. It in particular defended of the marked compatriots of espionage by the occupants.
Elected official to advise communal of Mons in 1904, it was alderman of the State education in 1912 and became burgomaster of the city in 1926: it remained it until in 1953, except during the Second world war where, obliged to hide, the mayorat was ensured by Ernest Stack, burgomaster making function, then by a rexist imposed by the authorities Nazis.
At the national level, Victor Maistriau was elected appointed in 1933, then was Minister for the State education in 1934 and Minister for Justice in 1937. September 3rd, 1945, it is named Minister of state. Although determined partisan of the Belgian unit, Maistriau sat at the Walloon Assemblée as from 1927 and of the committee of patronage of the Walloon cultural Congrès of Charleroi (1938) and Liege (1957) will be member. The Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement devotes to him a short note in its Volume II.
External bond
- Biography of Victor Maistriau on the official site of Mons
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