Arnold Joseph Hendrix (Peer, May 12, 1866 - Antwerp, February 26, 1946) was an important figure in the Flemish movement, co-founder and later chairman and deputy director of De Standaard N.V.
After his studies in Pharmacy at the Catholic University of Leuven, he established himself in Antwerp as a pharmacist in 1890. He profiled himself in all kinds of business, including with Lieven Gevaert. He was involved in many Catholic Flemish initiatives from that period in and around Antwerp.
The need for a dome organization was great and in November 1907 he managed to open it in the Catholic Flemish Secretariat. He was also elected as first chairman. The still young Ernest Claes got his first job after his studies as the sole officer for the Secretariat. From this secretariat, editors of the magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt would also grow, one of the precursors of De Standaard.
On Saturday, May 2, 1914, he founded Frans van Cauwelaert and Alfons Van de Perre in Antwerp De Standaard N.V., the later publisher of the newspaper De Standaard. In 1924 he was appointed manager of the newly established company Standard Boekhandel in Brussels, in 1926 he joined the Board of Directors of De Standaard N.V.
In the upcoming battle between Gustaaf Sap and Frans Van Cauwelaert, he appears to be a confidant of the first. In the course of 1933, he will follow Van Cauwelaert as chairman of the De Standaard Management Board.
At the beginning of World War II, the latest edition of the newspapers appeared on May 16, 1940. The German occupier himself threatened to release the titles back if the publisher did not continue publishing. Arnold Hendrix then granted permission to publish a newspaper under occupation with the restrictions that the name De Standaard would not be used to contain information useful or useful to readers that the messages of the German government should be clearly separated from the editorial contributions and that great care was given against contributions received.
Outside his involvement in the publishing house De Standaard acquired Hendrix already in 1916 by renaming his name to a petition for the establishment of Dutch-language education at the University of Ghent.
Later he built the Catholic Flemish secondary education network in Antwerp.
In 1938 he was co-founder and from 1938 to 1941 the first president of the Flemish chamber of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.
Arnold Hendrix died in Antwerp at the age of 79 and did not experience the trial against De Standaard N.V. and the editors of General News.
wiki
