Gerry Fitt

Gerard " Gerry " Fitt, Baron Fitt, of Bell 's Hill ( April 9 * 1926 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, † 26 August 2005) in the County of Down, was a Northern Irish politician.

Life

Fitt worked after school 1941-1953 in the merchant marine.

His political career began for the Irish Labour Party in 1958 in municipal politics before he was elected in 1962 for those in the Northern Ireland Assembly (Northern Ireland Assembly ) and there until its dissolution in March 1972 the constituency Belfast dock Division represented.

After his discharge from the Irish Labour Party he founded in 1964 the Republican Labour Party (RLP ) and was chosen for this in the elections in 1966 in the British House of Commons (House of Commons ), which he held until 1983 belonged to and there represented the constituency of Belfast West. Between 1964 and 1970 he was also chairman of the RLP.

In 1970 he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) and was also its chairman until 1979. In addition, he was from 1973 to 1975 a member of the Government of Northern Ireland, and at times in 1974 as a representative of Brian Faulkner their deputy ( Deputy Chief of the Northern Ireland Executive). In these roles, he participated in the negotiations on the agreement of Sunningdale part, which provided that Northern Ireland's Unionists ceded a portion of their influence on nationalist Irish, with the agreement but ultimately because of strong opposition, increasing violence by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) and one organized by the Ulster Workers ' Council general strike failed.

After 1979, the SDLP left, he remained as a non-party Socialist member of the House. Successor as chairman of the SDLP was then John Hume. Fitt, who advocated non-violence in the Northern Ireland conflict, had to endure hostility from both the Republican and Loyalist extremists of in the subsequent period.

In the general election on 9 June 1983, he lost his seat in the House to the candidate of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, but was in July 1983 for Life peer with the title Baron Fitt of Bell levied 's Hill in the County of Down to the peerage and then became part of the upper House ( House of Lords ) to. Shortly after his elevation to a Life Peer arson attack on his home in Belfast.

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Gerry Fitt in the catalog that German national library
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0 550 10051 2, p 531
  • BBC: Obituary: Gerry Fitt ( 26 August 2005)
  • THE SUNDAY TIMES: Lord Fitt. Northern Ireland politican who founded and led the SDLP and never wavered in his rejection of IRA violence (27 August 2005)
  • THE TELEGRAPH: Lord Fitt. Obituary (27 August 2005)
  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Politicians (Northern Ireland)
  • Life peer
  • Northern Irishman
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Politicians ( 21st century)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1926
  • Died in 2005
  • Man
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