André de Kerchove de Denterghem

André de Kerchove de Denterghem (born October 16, 1885 in Ghent , † May 24, 1945 in Brussels ) was a Belgian liberal politician and ambassador .

Life

André de Kerchove de Denterghem was the son of Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem , received his doctorate in law . In 1911 his son Charles (* 1911; † 1983) was born. In 1920 he was chargé d'affaires of the Belgian government in Berlin , from 1921 to 1929 he was the governor of East Flanders and from 1928 to 1932 senator.

From 1931 De Kerchove was Minister, from 1935 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Belgian Government to the Government of the German Reich in Berlin. From 1935 to 1937, as envoy in Paris, he spoke out on the controversial issue of the independence of Belgian politics. From 1935 to June 13, 1936 Paul-Henri Spaak was Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Paul van Zeeland . Spaak tried at an audience with Leopold III. the transfer of de Kerchove from Paris to Rome , with the threat of scandalizing the Count's private life in Paris. From 1936, Benito Mussolini requested , for the letters of accreditation in Fascist Italy, that Victor Emanuel III. was titled as King of Abyssinia.

The accreditation of ambassadors in the fascist state was linked to the formal recognition of the occupation of Abyssinia. Since the German Empire supported Haile Selassie with arms and given the colonial practice of the Belgian monarchs in the Congo, de Kerchove carried out the kowtowing . The admission of the German Reich into the League of Nations , through the Locarno Treaties , the questioning of the capitalist form of society in the Spanish civil war united Belgian, French and Italian foreign policy in maintaining the system. Galeazzo Ciano passed on his knowledge of the Wehrmacht's plans for an attack on Belgium through De Kerchove .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ July 5, 1942 Avondmaal met the h. gillon en graaf de Kerchove. Hij is van meenig dat de Duitsche sufferer kringen nog steeds gelooven in de mogelijkheid van een overwinning. Het komt mij voor dat die meenignniet answered aan de werkelijkheid. after Harry van Velthoven, Julius Hoste, Zwerver in no man's country: Julius Hoste en zijn Londens oorlogsdagboek

predecessor	Office	successor
Eugène Beyens	Belgian managing director in Berlin in 1920	Georges della Faille de Leverghem
Robert Everts	Belgian envoy in Berlin 1931–1935	Jacques Davignon
Edmond de Gaiffier d'Hestroy	Belgian envoy in Paris November 7, 1935–1938	Pol Le Tellier
Eugène II. De Ligne Chargé d' Affaires	Belgian envoy in Rome 1938–1940	Edouard Longerstaey