Charles Comte de Lalaing

de Lalaing (from Vanity Fair , 1904)

Comte ( Count ) Charles Maximilien Jacques VI. de Lalaing , KC (born March 4, 1856 in London , †  1919 ) was a Belgian lawyer and diplomat .

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Charles VI. came from the Flemish noble family de Lalaing -Mouillerie. He was the son of the Belgian diplomat Maximilien V. de Lalaing (1811-1881) and his wife Julia Maria (⚭ April 17, 1855), née Vibart. His younger brother was the painter Jacques de Lalaing (1858–1917). On April 12, 1888, de Lalaing married Christine-Louise, Baroness du Tour van Bellinchave (born January 9, 1866) in The Hague. The marriage resulted in the son Jacques Maximilien Paul Emmanuel de Lalaing (* 1889), who, like his father, became a diplomat.

After training as a lawyer, Lalaing entered the Belgian diplomatic service in 1879. His early career led him in 1881 as second secretary to the Belgian embassy in Vienna , in 1883 to the embassy in Bucharest , in 1886 as first secretary to the Belgian embassy in Berlin and in 1887 to The Hague . In 1889 Lalaing was transferred to London as counselor.

From 1893 to 1896 he served as Minister Resident in Rio de Janeiro , from 1896 to 1899 in Bucharest and from 1899 to 1903 in Bern . In 1903 Lalaing, who had held the rank of Attache au Cabinet du Roi since 1884 , was finally appointed Belgian ambassador to the court of St. James in London . In 1914 Lalaing helped found the Commission for Relief in Belgium , an American aid organization that organized the distribution of food in German-occupied Belgium under the direction of the later US President Herbert Hoover . Edmund Dene Morel characterizes Lalaing for the First World War as "a society diplomat who showed an extraordinary lack of understanding" of the British warfare in Belgium.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Henry Robert Addison / Charles Henry Oakes: Who's Who , 1907, p. 1010. Year of death according to: Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft : Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe , 1998, p. 745.
2. ↑ Randolph Spencer Churchill / Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill Volume V. Supplement 2, 1966, p. 487. The son had been a diplomat since 1911. He has been in Petersburg (1913–1917), Stockholm (1918), London (1918–1919), The Hague (1919), Tehran (1919–1922), Cairo (1922–1924) and The Hague (1924–1926) ) active.
3. ^ Ferdinand Tönnies Society: Ferdinand Tönnies Complete Edition , 1998, p. 745.
4. ^ Karl Hampe / Folker Reichert: War Diary 1914-1919 , 2004, p. 307.
5. ^ Edmund Dene Morel: ED Morel's History of the Congo Reform Movement , 1968, p. 229.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Belgian envoy to Switzerland from 1899 to 1903	Gontran de Lichtervelde
Edouard Whettnall	Belgian Envoy to the United Kingdom 1903 to 1914	Paul Hymans