Filip Dewinter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Filip Dewinter
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 11, 1962(1962-09-11)
Age	62
Birthplace	Bruges
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Virgo

Filip Dewinter Biography

Filip Dewinter is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 11, 1962 in Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium. Philip Michel Frans “Filip” Dewinter (born 11 September 1962) is a Belgian politician from Belgium. He is among the most prominent participants of Vlaams Belang which is a right-wing Flemish secessionist and nationalist party. Along together with Hugo Coveliers of the VLOTT party, Dewinter forged an alliance of list cartels for the city elections in Antwerp on October 8th, 2006.

Philip Dewinter was the guest speaker at a gathering of Sint-Maartensfonds’ former SS-collaborators that was held on December 1, 2001. In the evening, Philip Dewinter opened his speech by stating “My Honour is loyalty” which was the phrase of German SS-soldiers in WW2.

In 2006 he was quoted in Bye-bye Belgium, which was seen as a break of the cordon sanitaire by some Belgian politicians.

In 2010, he participated in a conference in Israel organized by Likud on the fight against terrorism.

He was elected to the Flemish Parliament in 1988. was elected a city councilman in Antwerp. In the event that the Flemish Parliament as well as the Belgian Parliament were elected independently at the end of 1995, He decided to join the Flemish Parliament (which handles a wide range of regional issues). His strong stances on the issue of immigration from abroad led to victories during both the 1999 elections and the 2003 election for the Flemish Parliament. Dewinter was, along alongside Gerolf Annemans, the creator of the famous “70-puntenplan,” published in the first quarter of 1990s. It was a paper on policy comprising 70 pieces.

Filip Dewinter Net Worth

Filip Dewinter is one of the richest Politician from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Filip Dewinter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dewinter was already politically active during his high school years at the Sint-Franciscus-Xaverius instituut in Bruges. As a 16-year-old, he established an organization called the Flemish Student Action Group (Vlaamse Studenten Actie groep) which later changed into Nationalist Young Students League (Nationalistisch Jong Studenten Verbond). In 1978, the group was briefly a part of the Flemish People’s Party (Vlaamse Volkspartij). In September 1982, he moved to Antwerp, where he did not complete his first year (candidate) in political and social sciences at the University of Antwerp, and became a member of the Nationalist Student Society (Nationalistische Studentenvereniging), one of the ideological seminaries of the Vlaams Belang. The year 1983 was the first time he was an official part of the Flemish Block (Vlaams Blok). He earned a degree as a journalist from the Erasmus College (Erasmus Handelsschool) in 1985. In November 1987, he was elected a as a member of the Belgian parliament. In that parliament there was a political alliance together with Gerolf Annemans (who was, in the previous year, was the successor to the founder-Flemish Block’s president Karel Dillen). Under the leadership of Dewinter the parliamentary group continued expand, particularly in 1991 and 1991, when it was the time that Flemish Block, from a tiny party, grew to around 12 percent of voters. This expansion has continued since, but its success is beginning to diminish because of the growth of other parties such as e.g. Lijst Dedecker.

On November 6, 1998, Filip Dewinter visited the Lommel German war cemetery, where thousands of bodies of Nazi Germany Wehrmacht soldiers of WW2 were laid to rest. The group of him and other members of his party, particularly Neo- Nazi Bert Eriksson, wanted to pay respect to and decorate on the tombs of 38 Flemish SS collaborators who were fighting for Nazi Germany and adhered to the fascist Nazi ideology. The Belgian police halted the small protest and then pushed back. Only people with who have German citizenship were permitted to go into the cemetery. In a 1992 debate on the University of Antwerp, Philip Dewinter spoke of a few people as being his close acquaintances. A majority of them were among the group of Nazis and Anti Semites or other fascists, such as Bert Eriksson, Staf De Clercq, and other people that were found guilty of treason such as Cyriel Verschaeve and August Borms.

A December 2005 interview by Dewinter with the American Jewish newsweekly The Jewish Week included a question if “Jews should vote for a party that espouses xenophobia”. Dewinter responded by saying: “Xenophobia is not the word I would use. If it absolutely must be a ‘phobia,’ let it be ‘Islamophobia.'” This statement, as well as the Blok’s condemnation for racism, have weighted heavily on the French-speaking Belgian Socialist Party as well as other francophone and Flemish parties for them to become part of an appeal against the Vlaams Belang at the Council of State, an appeal that tries to take away the government subsidy of the Vlaams Belang.

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Filip Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Filip Dewinter celebrates birthday on September 11 of every year.