David Trimble

William David Trimble, Baron Trimble (born 15 October 1944 Bangor, County Down ) is a Northern Irish politician. He was from 1995 to 2005 Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) and from 1998 to 2002, with two interruptions First Minister of Northern Ireland. 1998 David Trimble was awarded jointly with John Hume for his efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Life and work

David Trimble was born in 1944 as the son of an official in Bangor, 20 km north-east of Belfast. He went to the Bangor Grammar School and later studied law at Queen's University in Belfast. The study he finished 1968 with a Bachelor of Laws, to then work as a lecturer at the university. In 1969 he got his confirmation to be allowed to operate as a lawyer. From 1977 he went back to the University and was senior lecturer at the legal department.

The political work

David Trimble have been working since the early 1970s for the political goals of the Protestant Unionists of Northern Ireland one, seek a strengthening of ties to the UK. He was a member from 1975 until 1976, the elected Constituent Assembly in Northern Ireland that was used as the reaction of the failure of the Sunningdale Agreement between Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Trimble called for a merger of the militant Vanguard Unionist Party ( VUP ), with the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ), which he exposed himself to severe criticism. The VUP fell apart in the late 1970s and Trimble, the Ulster Unionist Party joined.

In 1985, David Trimble member of the Ulster clubs that any influence of Ireland fought as an extremist networks on development in Northern Ireland. In May 1990, Trimble was elected to the British House of Commons, was once a part of the Orange Society for the radicals within his party. He was averse to even a peace agreement after the cease of the Irish Republican Army (IRA ) in February 1995 and an approximation of the Catholic party Sinn Féin and was considered one of the most determined opponents of Irish- British framework agreement.

Beginning of peace work

On February 10, Trimble became the successor of James Molyneaux as leader of the UUP and began in this role with the active peace work, by advocating against the opposition in his own party for a willingness to reconcile with the socially disadvantaged and Catholic interlocutors and in 1996 it came first gesture of the hand handoff as a signal of reconciliation between him and his political opponents Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Féin. Even his meeting with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton in Dublin was a sign of his commitment to reform, and was designated as a historic moment.

In April, there were negotiations between the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern, David Trimble and Gerry Adams, performed by the U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell. This culminated in a peace agreement for Northern Ireland, which was the province of a semi -autonomous status. In the next election in June 1998, the UUP was with Trimble on the guide strongest party with 28 seats, followed by the SDLP under John Hume and Sinn Féin with 24 under Adams with 18 seats.

On 1 July 1998 David Trimble was elected minister in the regional assembly to the ridge. On 10 December the same year he was awarded jointly with John Hume the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of all players in the Northern Ireland peace process, including the governments of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, who had a large proportion of the ceasefire the IRA.