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Alfred Danhier , born the in Dour and died there the was a unionist and a Walloon socialist politician of the Belgian Workers’ Party (P.O.B.).

Alfred Danhier comes from a large family (11 children) from Dour [ first ] , [ 2 ] , a minor, active in the socialist movement, from 1895 and until 1938, he became director of the workers’ cooperative “the socialist socialists” of Dour, socialist dissent of the cooperative “The workers together”. Federal President of the Federation of Borinage Miners ‘Unions before the First World War, he remains one of the regional and national leaders of the minors’ power station until his pension.

Elected municipal councilor of Dour in 1904, he was elected alderman of his commune in 1907 by cartel with the Liberal Party. He was elected bourgmestre in 1921 until his revocation during the German occupation.

He became a provincial senator of Hainaut in Due to the resignation of Henri Rolland, he remained so until 1936. A street in Dour was dedicated to him.

This one dies at the rue du Peuple, the [ 2 ] .

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A bourgmestre is imposed by the German occupier in , while Mr. Danhier is still a reigning bourgmestre. Arthur Surin, member of the Rexist Party before the war, collaborated with the German repression forces thus causing the arrest, the deportation and the death of many people, he was detained, after the Liberation, at Mons prison and prosecuted before The military justice where he was sentenced to death, pardoned in 1948 he will never return to Dour [ 2 ] .

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Alfred Danhier is the son of Pierre, Joseph, Louis Danhier and Eléonore Roger.

The , he marries Amand Thémire [ 2 ] , with whom he had 5 children, Jean (born on ), Georges (born on ), Maria (born ), Léonie (born on ), Edmond (born on ) [ first ] , [ 2 ] .

One of his sons, more precisely Georges, created the Danhier insurance in 1923, at rue Alfred Danhier [ 2 ] .

Bureau d'Assurances Danhier

Danhier insurance office

His father and siblings

His father, at the age of 56, died the In the work of well n ° 3 of the Grand Bouillon du Bois de Saint-Ghislain in Dour [ 2 ] , [ 3 ] .

In 1923 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Alfred Danhier, who was the bourgmestre, poses the first re Peter of the People’s House in Trichères [ 2 ] .

The Cooperative Board of Directors in 1929 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The cooperative’s board of directors was made up of, more or less, 20 people, including Alfred Danhier [ 4 ] .

August 1928 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In , the foundation stone in the village hall is laid by it that the builder was nicknamed [ 4 ] .

  1. ↑ a et b Testimony of Pierre Danhier, On October 7, 2014 on rue Emile Estièrenart in Dour.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g and h Quin Jeanne, Lords, mayors, masters and mayors of Dour, August 1992, p. 46-47
  3. ↑ ‘ Dour civil status registers – death 1880, n ° 101 »
  4. ↑ a et b Jouret Alain, Memory in pictures Dour , Alan Sutton, Joué-les-Tours (France), p. 110 .
  • Alain Jouret, Danhier Émile , In 1000 personalities from Mons and the region. Biographical dictionary , Waterloo, 2015, p. 158.
  • Alain Jouret, A few words about the Douroise cooperative the socialists gathered , in C between information from regional history. Bulletin S, n ° 8 and n ° 9, April- , p. 2-12.
  • Powerful jeans, The evolution of the socialist workers movement in borinage , Royal Academy of Belgium, Class of Letters, Brussels 1993.
  • Nico Wouters, War mayors 40/44: local governance and collaboration in Belgium , Lannoo Uitgeverij, 2004.
  • Annals Parliamentarians, House of Representatives, meeting of 18/11/1948, arrest of the Minister of Justice by Léo Collard on: “The grace granted to Boveroulle and Surin’s traitors and denunciators, condemned to death”

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