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Joris Van Severen (1894-07-19 in Wakken, Belgium - 1940-05-20 in Abbeville, France) was a Belgian nationalist politician, ideologist and leader of the national-solidarist Verdinaso

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Early Years

Joris Van Severen was born in the Flemish town of Wakke as Georges Van Severen. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Wakken is a village and Deelgemeente in Dentergem municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held Abbeville ( Abbegem in Flemish is a city in Picardie in northern France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those National-solidarism was the ideology of the Verdinaso that existed in the Low Countries. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. He would change his (French) first name to the Dutch Joris later in his life. Although born in Flanders he was raised in French. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. His father was a notary and would become the mayor of Wakke. It was under the influence of priest Hugo Verriest that Joris Van Severen became a Flemish-nationalist, despite his French upbringing.

He studied at the Sint-Barbaracollege in Ghent (Rhetoric) and became a member of the General Catholic Flemish Student Union where he met, among others, Joris Lannoo. Ghent (ˈɡɛnt Gent ʝɛnt in Dutch, Gand in French, and formerly Gaunt in English) is a City and a He later joined the organisation Rodenbach's Vrienden (Friends of Rodenbach). Albrecht Rodenbach (* 27 October 1856 in Roeselare, Belgium; † 23 June 1880 in Roeselare) was a Flemish Albrecht Rodenbach (* 27 October 1856 in Roeselare, Belgium; † 23 June 1880 in Roeselare) was a Flemish His studies were interrupted by World War I.

In the trenches of World War I

He left for the army that was being mobilised on September 24th and joined the 9th Regiment of the Line in Lier. He got his field training in St-Lo and is promoted to corporal in December. In January 1915 he is stationed in the CISLAI (Centre Instruction Sous-Lieutenant auxiliaire Infanterie) in Gaillon and is send to the front on March 23rd. By then he had been promoted to sergeant. Joris Van Severen undergoes his baptism of fire in April 1915 during a German attack on Vicogne. On August 8th he is send to a training camp near Avours after which he is send back to the front, promoted to Adjutant. Despite not being one of them yet he is already allowed to the officer's mess, where he is well-liked for his verbal skills. He refuses any promotion to sub-lieutenant however because he refuses to bind himself too much to the Belgian army and their abuses towards the Flemish. .

Promotion

General Jaques however insists that Van Severen becomes an officer, despite Van Severen's Flemish-nationalist views. Van Severen talks about this with other Flemish-nationalist officers who persuade him to become an officer: 'We need officers on our side'. Van Severen is promoted to sub-lieutenant on January 4th 1917 in the 4th Company of the 9th Regiment of the Line. He commands a section of machinegunners and takes pride in the fact that during his command none of his men were killed or seriously wounded.

During his time at the front he reads a lot. Political literature such as Criticism of the Flemish Movement by August Vermeylen and religious literature. August Vermeylen (1872–1945 was a Belgian writer and literature critic Joris Van Severen always carried the Bible with him and never went to sleep without reading a few pages in it. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin

Joining the Front Movement

During World War I the Belgian army was commanded in French, although the great majority of Flemish soldiers (who were in turn the great majority of Belgian soldiers) didn't understand it. This led to a large amount of unnecessairy casualties. The French-speaking officers and politicians also looked down on the Flemish and any form of protest against the use of French in the commands was harshly suppressed. This situation radicalised Van Severen in his Flemish-nationalist views and he would join the Frontbeweging (Front Movement) which protested the discrimination of the Flemish by the Belgian state.

The Front Movement was an underground protest movement that stirred Flemish-nationalist sentiment among Flemish soldiers and fought the injustice against Flemish soldiers. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The head of the Front Movement was corporal Adiel Debeuckelaere, before the war professor at the Ghent University. Van Severen wold become the official headman of the Front Movement in his company. On July 11th thousands of Flemish soldiers found a copy of the Open letter to the king of Belgium, Albert I. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. In this letter the Front Movement asked for equal rights for the Flemish people, language and culture. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. This led to a large increase in intelligence service activities, looking for anyone that might be involved in the Front Movement. Van Severen was interrogated by the Sûreté Militaire about his Flemish-nationalist activities:

These bold answers gave him 8 days of room arrest. On September 22th 1917 Van Severen is send to a training camp at Parigné-l'Evêque. When he enters his train the soldiers of his company arrive and salute him while the train leaves the station. He is sent back to the front on November 9th 1917 with a clear warning that his Flemish-nationalist activities must be stopped, which he boldly refuses.

Demotion

In June 1918 an incident with fifty of his men and a French commander whose orders they refused to obey. When interrogated about this, Van Severen takes the full blame. He is given fourteen days of arrest and is demoted to adjutant. When the war ends, no promises that were made by the Belgian government towards the Flemish were kept and Van Severen is disappointed in the unorganised Flemish Movement. The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging is a popular term used to describe the political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders If the Flemish Movement had been more organised, the Flemish soldiers could have risen up in revolt and could have either destroyed or taken over the Belgian state. The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging is a popular term used to describe the political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.


Entry into politics

After World War I Joris Van Severen became a member of the newly established Frontpartij (Front Party) and was elected to parlement in 1921. During this period he wrote an extensive essay on Flemish-nationalism and became one of the leading figures. While in his first years in politics Van Severen could be described as a moderate left-wing democrat, he soon began developing more right-wing ideas combined with a growing revulsion of parlementary democracy. When in 1919 the Belgian government approved universal suffrage (for men only) the young Flemish Movement had great hopes. The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging is a popular term used to describe the political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders The results were disappointing however and, together with Joris Van Severen, some other politicians of the Frontpartij became disillusioned in parlementary democracy.

Joris Van Severen was a rather silent member of parlement but provoked an incident in the parlement during one of his speeches. On November 29th he held a radical anti-Belgian speech in which he set out his ideas for more autonomy of the Flemish and in which he attacked the Belgian system. When a French-speaking member of parlement asked what his idea of the future of Belgium was Van Severen replied with the famous words: La Belgique? Qu'elle crêve!" (Belgium? Let it rot!)

Founding the Verdinaso

At the same time tensions were building in the Frontpartij. Joris Van Severen refused any cooperation with moderate Flemish-nationalists and his political views were evolving towards national-solidarism in which he sought to reunite the Netherlands and Flanders into the state of Dietsland and defended the benefits of militia's. The Greater Netherlands (Groot-Nederland or Grootneerlandisme is the political aspiration of some in the Low Countries. His economical views began leaning towards corporatism and he soon began making enemies among the moderate and democratic members of the Flemish Movement. Historically corporatism (corporativismo refers to a political or Economic system in which power is held by civic assemblies that represent Economic The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging is a popular term used to describe the political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders

Joris Van Severen was not re-elected in 1929 and founded his own organisation based on corporatism, national-solidarism, catholicism, anti-Belgian ideas and the Great-Netherlands ideal in 1931. Historically corporatism (corporativismo refers to a political or Economic system in which power is held by civic assemblies that represent Economic National-solidarism was the ideology of the Verdinaso that existed in the Low Countries. It was named the Verdinaso (Verbond van Dietse Nationaal-Solidaristen/Union of Diets National-Solidarists). The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an The militia of the Verdinaso would be given the name DMO (Dietse Militanten Orde/Diets Militant Order). The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an

The Verdinaso held several National Days in which the movement would gather in one place and where the leader Van Severen would speak to his assembled movement. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an Contrary to Italian fascism the Verdinaso promoted a decentralised form of government, keeping in line with the historical demand for decentralisation in the Low Countries, and a Verdinaso was also set up in the Netherlands, although it never had as much success there as it hand in Flanders. Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The Verdinaso also began forming it's own syndical organisation which soon grew in size. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an

The New Marching Direction

The Belgian state saw threat in the Verdinaso and began taking measures against it. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an Repression, arrests and the law against militia's and the Verdinaso syndical organisation soon began taking its toll. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an Van Severen's idea's about gaining power also began changing and he replaced the idea of destroying the state by conquering the state. The anti-Belgian ideas would be removed from the Verdinaso and now not only sought to reunite Flanders and the Netherlands but now promoted the Burgundian Netherlands. This included the union of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-Flanders.

This change in Verdinaso-ideology was called the Nieuwe Marsrichting (New Marching Direction). The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an This change bought him the support of several members of the political class and even of radical Belgian-nationalists who saw Van Severen as an ally. The Flemish Movement however lashed out at Van Severen for this betrayal and several high-ranking members, including the ideologist Wies Moens, left the Verdinaso for the Flemish National Union. The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse Beweging is a popular term used to describe the political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders Wies Moens ( 28 January 1898 &ndash 5 February 1982) was a literary historian poet and pamphleteer from Flanders. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an The Flemish National Union ( Dutch: Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond, VNV) was a Nationalist Flemish Political party in They blamed Van Severe for exchanging popular nationalism in favor of state nationalism.

Joris Van Severen ideological thinking was also influenced by Charles Maurras and Maurice Barrès, whilst failing to come to any accommodation with the Rexists or the Flemish National Union. __FORCETOC__ Charles Maurras ( 20 April 1868 Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône France – 16 November 1952) was Maurice Barrès ( 19 August 1862 - 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, and anti-semite Rexism was a fascist political movement in the first half of the twentieth century in Belgium. The Flemish National Union ( Dutch: Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond, VNV) was a Nationalist Flemish Political party in Van Severen was equally opposed to Adolf Hitler and on the outbreak of World War II he banned his followers from producing any material in support of Nazism. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German

Execution

When Germany began executing Fall Gelb (the invasion of the Low Countries by Germany) in 1940 the Belgian government began mobilising. In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries Van Severen called upon his men to join the Belgian army and fight bravely despite the overwhelming odds. He was arrested by the Belgian government however, together with many other Flemish-nationalist en communist politicians, and thousands of foreigners, and transported to France. Van Severen belonged to a group of prisoners who was imprisoned in Abbeville, where, during havy German air attacks at May 20, he was shot with 20 other prisoners by French soldiers who thought they were dangerous spies. Abbeville ( Abbegem in Flemish is a city in Picardie in northern France.

The death of its leader left the Verdinaso without a leader and it soon began falling apart. Some Verdinaso-members joined forces with the Germans, others joined the (now almost completely unknown) resistance group Dietse Eenheid and others just stopped involving themselves in politics. The Verdinaso ( Ver bond der Di etse Na tionaal- So lidaristen - Union of Diets National Solidarists) was an

References

  1. ^ De Bruyne, A. , "Joris Van Severen, Droom & Daad", Oranje Uitgaven, 1961

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