Herman De Croo
De Croo, 2009
President of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
1 July 1999  12 July 2007
Preceded byRaymond Langendries
Succeeded byHerman Van Rompuy
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
8 June 1995  28 April 2014
In office
31 March 1968  15 December 1991
Senator of Belgium
In office
16 December 1991  7 June 1995
Personal details
Born
Herman Francies Joseph De Croo

(1937-08-12) 12 August 1937
Brakel, Belgium
Political partyOpen Flemish Liberals and Democrats
SpouseFrançoise Desguin
Children2, including Alexander
Alma materUniversité libre de Bruxelles (BA, JD)
University of Chicago (FP)

Herman Francies Joseph De Croo (born 12 August 1937) is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. First elected in March 1968, he is the longest serving Belgian member of parliament, serving uninterrupted until 2014. He is the father of incumbent prime minister Alexander De Croo.

He went to school at Collège Saint-Stanislas in Mons.[1] He obtained a doctorate in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1961, and later attended the University of Chicago Law School on a Fulbright Scholarship.

From 1999 until July 2007, De Croo was the President of the Chamber of Representatives, the lower house of the country's Federal Parliament. He is the current mayor of Brakel.

De Croo was first elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 1968 for the PVV-PLP. He has since served in various governments as minister of Transport and Foreign Trade; minister of Transport, Postal Services, Telegraphy and Telephony; minister of Education and minister of Postal Services, Telegraphy, Telephony and Pensions.

Herman De Croo, who holds a Ph.D. in law, is a former Professor of Common Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

De Croo has been President of the European Transport Safety Council since it was founded in 1993.

Honours

Bibliography

  • Parlement et Gouvernement (1965)
  • Het Parlement aan het werk, de taak van de hedendaagse vertegenwoordiging" (1966)
  • België/Belgique : Service Nation (1985 and 1988)
  • De wereld volgens Herman De Croo (1999)

References

  1. Ducobu, Florian. "Herman De Croo de retour au collège Saint-Stanislas ce samedi pour fêter les 65 ans de sa sortie". DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  2. "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 18 października 2004 r. o nadaniu orderów". prawo.sejm.gov.pl. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2019.

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