Henck Arron
Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron ( born April 25, 1936 in Paramaribo, Suriname; † 4 December 2000 Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands ) was a Surinamese politician and the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname.
After completing his education in Paramaribo Arron traveled in 1956 to an education in banking in the Netherlands. Here he worked for several years at the Amsterdam bank. After his return to Suriname he got a job at the Vervuurts Bank in Paramaribo and from the end of 1963 he was employed in a senior position at Volkskreditbank.
Arron 1961 Board Member of the National Party of Suriname (NPS ). After the parliamentary elections in 1963, he was Member of Parliament for this party and its chairman in 1970. In the elections of 1973, he was then Premier candidate for a party combination that National parties combined (NPK ). The NPK consisted of the established two 1946 parties, the Creole National Partij Suriname ( NPS), the Progressive Surinamese People's Party ( PSV), which represented the Roman Catholic part of Volkskreolen, which was founded in 1949 Javanese Party Hardly Tani Persatuan Indonesia ( dts.: Indonesian peasant Party ) ( kTPI ) of iding Soemita and 1961 constituted Partij van de Nationalist Republiek (PNR) data by Attorney Eddy Bruma, who had complete independence from the Netherlands from the beginning as a target. This NPK got 22 of the 39 seats in parliament ( Parliament: de States) and Arron was elected on December 24, 1973 Prime Minister of Suriname. On February 15, 1974, he announced then as part of a government statement in parliament that Suriname " ultimo 1975 " should be independently after initial strong resistance against these efforts by the opposition Hindustani Vooruitstrevende Hervormings Party ( VHP). ( Dts.: Progressive Reform Party ), agreed with the opposition leader and founder of the VHP, Jagernath Lachmon the required constitutional amendment to a Verbrüderungsakt.
The country's independence in 1975
On 25 November 1975 Suriname became independent, the Netherlands Joop den Uyl under Prime Minister said goodbye with a " golden handshake " of around 3.5 billion guilders and Arron became the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname. Although Arron had promised in Parliament tender elections eight months after independence, he hesitated elections until 1977 addition. Despite rumors of election fraud absolute majority received NPK, this time without the PNR, again in parliament and Arron was confirmed in his office. The reign of Arron was not a success. In addition to economic problems, the Dutch development aid had very little progress on the creation of new jobs, events had tightened around the independence of the ethnic sentimentality and made this way for a flow of emigrants to the Netherlands.
Military coup in 1980
On February 25, 1980, there came the coup of 16 non-commissioned officers of the army. The government Arron was accused of corruption and deposed by a National Military Council under the leadership of Desi Bouterse Sergeant. Arron was first captured and later released under house arrest.
In November 1987, the first elections took place after the coup and Arron became vice-president in the government Ramsewak Shankar. This term ended prematurely in 1990 as the military leadership - this time without bloodshed, the government deposed Shankar. Hereby it came to the end of the political career of Henck Arron.
In December 2000, Arron visited on the occasion of a round table discussion on the subject of 25 years of independence of Suriname to the Netherlands. On the evening of December 4, Henck Arron died of a cardiac arrest in his hotel room in Alphen aan den Rijn.
On 25 April 2003, the Gravenstraat in Paramaribo was renamed in his honor in Henck Arronstraat.
Statue
A created on the initiative of the National Partij Suriname by Surinamese artists Erwin de Vries statue of Henck Arron was unveiled on 25 April 2008. The monument was erected at the entrance of Palmentuins ( palm garden ) from the Office of the President in Paramaribo, Small Combeweg. The text on the pedestal of the statue is in Sranan Tongo: . Henck Arron AE A Prins Pari Tiriman Fu srefidensi 1975 Ins German translated: the driving force behind the independence in 1975.