Gust De Muynck
{{Short description|Director of the Belgian Radio Broadcasting Company}}
Gust De Muynck (Antwerp, 5 December 1897 – Hoeilaart, 1986) was the first Flemish director of the Belgian Radio Broadcasting Company, the NIR - the precursor of the BRT and the current VRT. He was also famous as a writer and was married to Yvonne De Man, the sister of the socialist Hendrik De Man.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=127}} De Muynck had a modest background; he lived at the Dam in Antwerp, and his father was cobbler, hairdresser and innkeeper.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=134}}
Biography
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After his studies and military service De Muynck worked as an employee in a printing office.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=136}} Thereafter he became active in the socialist movement and worked at the Arbeidershogeschool since 1922.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=136}} In between, he kept studying at the VUB and in 1932 he became master in economic sciences.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=136}}
In 1930 the Belgian National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (INR-NIR) was founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.omroepmuseum.be/index.php/geschiedenis-radio-tv/radio |publisher=omroepmuseum.be |first=Erik |last=De Groef |access-date=4 May 2016 |language=nl |title=Bondige geschiedenis van de radio in Vlaanderen |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235954/http://www.omroepmuseum.be/index.php/geschiedenis-radio-tv/radio |url-status=dead }} The first director-general was Marcel Van Soust de Borckenfeldt, and per language group one director was assigned. For Flanders it became Gust De Muynck, for Wallonia Théo Fleischman.{{cite web |url=http://www.vrt.be/geschiedenis-van-de-openbare-omroep |title=Geschiedenis van de openbare omroep |publisher=VRT |language=nl |access-date = 4 May 2016 }}
During World War II he was employed with the National Work for Child Welfare.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=123}} In between De Muynck wrote a biography about Winston Churchill. It was edited in 1944 both in Dutch and in French.{{sfn|De Muynck|1944a}}{{sfn|De Muynck|1944b}}
At the end of World War II Gust De Muynck left for the United States.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=134}} He stayed there for a year and a half and was correspondent for both national radio broadcasting companies. Back in Belgium he became deputy of the Minister of Traffic Management in the council of the NIR, until 1958.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=140}}
From then on De Muynck became Director-General of Social Affairs from the European Economic Community, in Brussels.{{sfn|Florquin|1968|p=140}}
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- {{cite book |last=De Muynck |first=Gust |title=Winston Spencer Churchill |language=nl |year=1944a |publisher=Manteau |location=Brussels |isbn= }}
- {{cite book |last=De Muynck |first=Gust |title=Winston Spencer Churchill |language=fr |year=1944b |publisher=Lumière |location=Brussels/Paris |isbn= }}
- {{cite book |last=Florquin |first=Joos |title=Ten huize van... |volume=4 |language=nl |year=1968 |publisher=Davidsfonds |location=Leuven |url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/flor007tenh04_01/flor007tenh04_01.pdf |isbn= }}
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Category:Belgian male journalists
Category:Belgian radio journalists
Category:Belgian television directors