Guillaume 'Willy' Bourg (22 February 1934 – 21 February 2003; ) was a

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ish politician. He was a member of the

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(CSV), and sat in the

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for eighteen years. Growing up in

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, Bourg studied at the

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, before completing his

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, and then

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. Upon returning to the country, he remained in the army, serving as an

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instructor. He retired from the military in 1967. After graduating from the

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, he became a teacher at the Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers, in

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. He made his first political step in 1979, being elected to the city's communal council. In 1984, Willy became General Secretary of the CSV, succeeding Jean-Pierre Kraemer. He first entered the Chamber of Deputies on 23 January 1985, taking the place of

Nicolas Mosar Nicolas Mosar (25 November 1927 – 6 January 2004) was a politics of Luxembourg, Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and diplomat. A Christian Social People's Party (CSV) member, Mosar was elected to the Luxembourg communal council, communal counci ...

after Mosar had been appointed Luxembourg's

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and had thus vacated his seat as

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for

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. He was elected in his own right in the 1989 election, and was re-elected subsequently in

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and

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. In 1998, Bourg was appointed Vice-President of the Chamber. Bourg died on 21 February 2003, the day before his sixty-ninth birthday. He was succeeded in the Chamber of Deputies by

Marcel Sauber Marcel Sauber (born 3 May 1939 in Echternach) is a Luxembourgian politician. He is a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Centre constituency for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). He had been President of the Council of St ...

, then President of the Council of State.

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External links

Chamber of Deputies official website biography
1934 births 2003 deaths Politicians from Luxembourg City Councillors in Luxembourg City Christian Social People's Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg) from Centre Luxembourgian educators Luxembourgian soldiers Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Alumni of the Athénée de Luxembourg {{Luxembourg-politician-stub