# Hugo Schiltz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hugo_Schiltz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hugo_Schiltz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Schiltz > Source revision: 1304370084 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Belgian lawyer and politician (1927–2006)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person |name=Hugo Schiltz |birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1927|10|27}} |birth_place=[Borsbeek](/source/Borsbeek), Belgium |death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2006|8|5|1927|10|27}} |death_place=[Antwerp](/source/Antwerp), Belgium |occupation=[Lawyer](/source/Lawyer), [politician](/source/politician) }} '''Hugo Schiltz''' (27 October 1927 – 5 August 2006) was a [Belgian](/source/Belgium) [lawyer](/source/lawyer) and [politician](/source/politician).{{cite web|title=Hugo Schiltz, de Volksunie en het Egmontpact|date=2006-08-08|work=Lvd.net|url=http://lvb.net/item/3204}} He was [Belgian MP](/source/Belgian_Chamber_of_People's_Representatives) from 1965 to 1988 and [senator](/source/Belgian_Senate) from 1992 to 1995. He was also twice minister, from 1981 to 1985 in the first [Flemish Government](/source/Politics_of_Flanders) and between 1988 and 1991 in the [Belgian federal government](/source/Belgian_federal_government) Martens VIII. He was further president of the [Flemish](/source/Flanders) [political party](/source/political_party) ''[Volksunie](/source/Volksunie)'' between 1975 and 1979. He was one of the founders of [federalism](/source/federalism) in Belgium. After the dissolution of the ''Volksunie'', he chose the new party ''[Spirit](/source/Spirit_(Belgium))''. ==Career== During [World War II](/source/World_War_II) Schiltz was a member of the ''Nationaal-Socialistische Jeugd Vlaanderen'' ([National Socialist](/source/Nazism) Youth Flanders). This led to him being jailed for some months after the war. He studied law, economic science and [Thomistic philosophy](/source/Thomism) at [KU Leuven](/source/KU_Leuven), where he became a member of the [Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond](/source/Katholiek_Vlaams_Hoogstudentenverbond) (Catholic Flemish Students Union). In 1953 he became a lawyer and an economics teacher. In 1958, he was elected member of the [Antwerp](/source/Antwerp) municipal council, which he would remain until 1998. After a short period with the [Christian People's Party](/source/Christian_Democratic_and_Flemish), he became a member of the ''Volksunie'' in 1963. From 1975 to 1979 he was party president. During that time, he steered the party into a more [social liberalism](/source/social_liberalism) direction. He participated in drawing up the 1977 [Egmont pact](/source/Egmont_pact), which was seen as treason by more hard line advocates from the [Flemish Movement](/source/Flemish_Movement). The Belgian government didn't survive the disapproval of the pact in parliament. The new, more liberal direction of the Volksunie, and the cooperation in the Egmont pact were the reason for the creation by the more radical, right wing-conservative part of the Volksunie, of two new small parties, the ''Vlaams Nationale Partij'' (''Flemish National Party'', VNP), and the ''Vlaamse Volkspartij'' (''Flemish Popular Party'', VVP). Later, both parties merged into the ''[Vlaams Blok](/source/Vlaams_Blok)''. Together with [Wilfried Martens](/source/Wilfried_Martens) and [Jean-Luc Dehaene](/source/Jean-Luc_Dehaene), Hugo Schiltz was instrumental in the ongoing [State reform in Belgium](/source/State_reform_in_Belgium) (five constitutional updates during Shiltz's lifetime, continued thereafter), which saw some of the basics of the defunct Egmont past enacted, making Belgium a federal state recognizing the [communities, regions and language areas of Belgium](/source/communities%2C_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium). From 1994 to 1998, Schiltz was alderman for finances in [Antwerp](/source/Antwerp) in an anti-Vlaams Blok coalition. In 1995 he received the honorary title of Minister of State from [Albert II of Belgium](/source/Albert_II_of_Belgium). After the dissolution of the ''Volksunie'' into the [New Flemish Alliance](/source/New_Flemish_Alliance) and [Sociaal-Liberale Partij](/source/Sociaal-Liberale_Partij) in 2001, Schiltz became a member of the latter. In that year, he resumed practising law, first with [Ernst & Young](/source/Ernst_%26_Young) and ''Peeters Advocaten'', later he founded ''Laurius-Schiltz-Verschoeven ADVC''. Willem-Frederik Schiltz, his son by his second marriage, is an [Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats](/source/Open_Flemish_Liberals_and_Democrats) politician who has served as a [Belgian Senator](/source/Senate_(Belgium)) and as a member of the [Flemish Parliament](/source/Flemish_Parliament) (a language/community based parliament that emerged from the state reforms the senior Schiltz helped introduce). == Death == Hugo Schiltz died 5 August 2006 in Antwerp of [leukemia](/source/leukemia). == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://users.pandora.be/frankie.schram/tijd/bio/schiltz.html Biografie uit de Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging, © 2001] (Dutch) * [http://lvb.net/item/1476 Uitspraken over de actie bij het IJzermonument in 1953] {{in lang|nl}} * [http://lvb.net/item/3204 Hugo Schiltz, de Volksunie en het Egmontpact] {{in lang|nl}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928092441/http://www.algemeennederlandsverbond.org/Neerlandia2006-4.htm "Afscheid van een prinselijk politicus, humanist en reformist" in Neerlandia, verenigingsblad van het] {{in lang|nl}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schiltz, Hugo}} Category:1927 births Category:2006 deaths Category:People from Borsbeek Category:Flemish lawyers Category:Flemish activists Category:Ernst & Young people Category:Sociaal-Liberale Partij politicians Category:People's Union (Belgium) politicians Category:Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Category:Members of the Senate (Belgium) Category:Deputy prime ministers of Belgium Category:Ministers of state of Belgium Category:Deaths from leukemia in Belgium --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hugo Schiltz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Schiltz) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Schiltz?action=history)). 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