Omer Rudolphe Jean, Viscount Vanaudenhove (3 December 1913 – 26 November 1994) was a
Belgian
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liberal
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, mayor and minister. A businessman, Vanaudenhove was an owner of a shoe factory. He was burgomaster of Diest (1947–1955 and 1974–1976), liberal senator (1954–1974), president of the
Liberal Party
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(1961) and president and founder of the
PVV-PLP (1961–1969).
In the new party programme of the PVV-PLP, the traditional
anticlericalism
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of the liberal party was renounced. This new organization achieved success at the parliamentary elections of 1965 and gained 48 seats (compared to the 20 gained in 1961). Vanaudenhove was a proponent of a unitary Belgium and a unitarian PVV-PLP, but the tendency towards a federal state became unstoppable by the end of the sixties. Vanaudenhove was minister of public work and rebuilding between 1955–1958 and 1958–1961.
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Liberalism in Belgium
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Sources
60 jaar bevrijding van de kampen: een selectie uit de archieven van liberale voormannen(Dutch)
1913 births
1994 deaths
People from Diest
Flemish politicians
Belgian Ministers of State
Viscounts of Belgium
Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors
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