Albert Lilar

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Albert Jean Julien François Baron Lilar (born December 21, 1900 in Antwerp , Antwerp Province , Belgium , † March 16, 1976 ) was a Belgian university professor , liberal politician and several times Minister of Justice .

biography

After attending school, he studied law and was after his promotion to the doctorate in law as a lawyer active in Antwerp. He dealt in particular with the law of the sea and private international law and was temporarily also President of the International Maritime Committee ( Comité Maritime International ). He was also later professor of law at the Université libre de Bruxelles .

After the end of the Second World War , he began a political career and was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Liberal Party in 1946 as a member of the Senate , in which he represented the interests of the Arrondissement of Antwerp until 1971 .

In August 1946 he was appointed to a government by Prime Minister Camille Huysmans for the first time as Minister of Justice and was a member of the Huysmans cabinet until March 1947. Between August 1949 and June 1950 he was again Minister of Justice in Gaston Eyskens' cabinet .

Prime Minister Achille Van Acker reappointed him in April 1954 as Minister of Justice in his third government, to which he belonged until the end of Van Acker's term in June 1958.

In the subsequent second government of Eysken, he was first deputy prime minister in June 1958. In this role, he was particularly concerned with leading the round table on the sovereignty of the Belgian Congo . He was then again Minister of Justice between September 1960 and April 1961.

On July 15, 1969, he was honored with the honorary title of Minister of State for his services . The Prix ​​Albert Lilar of the Comité Maritime International in the field of publications on the law of the sea is named after him. In 1976, shortly before his death, he was given the title of baron.

Lilar, who was married to the writer Suzanne Lilar , is the father of the writer Françoise Mallet-Joris and Marie Fredericq-Lilar, an art historian and specialist in 18th century art .

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personal data
SURNAME Lilar, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilar, Albert Jean Julien François Baron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Antwerp Province , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1976