Charles Woeste

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Charles Woeste

Charles Frédéric Auguste Graf Woeste (born February 26, 1837 in Brussels , † April 5, 1922 there ) was a Belgian lawyer and politician .

family

Charles Woeste came from the Prussian Woeste family and was naturalized in Belgium on January 15, 1841. He was the son of the marriage of Edouard Woeste, born in the Rhenish Elberfeld , and Constance Vauthier from Lorraine. Edouard Woeste was Prussian consul from 1843 to 1853. In 1855 the Protestant converted to Catholicism with the help of his mother. On January 4, 1866, he married Marie Greindl, daughter of Lieutenant General Léonard Graf Greindl , who had been Minister of War in De Decker's cabinet from 1855.

Life

Charles Woeste studied law at the Royal Athenaeum in Brussels. In 1858 he received his doctorate in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles . He then worked as a lawyer in the Brussels Bar. He was dean of the College of Lawyers of the Court of Cassation.

In 1869 he founded the Catholic Party (Katholieke Partij), the Verbond van Katholieke Kringen , which was renamed the Katholieke Unie van arbeiders, burgers, middenstanders en landbouwers in 1921 and was merged into the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams after 1945 . He was a long-time member of the Belgian parliament for the Aalst district . He became Belgian Minister of Justice in 1884 and Minister of State in 1891.

Woeste received several national and international awards, including the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order (Grootkruis in de Leopoldsorde), the Belgian Order of Merit 1st Class (Burgerlijk Kruis 1st Class), the Order of Christ and the Papal Order of Gregorius, and the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice . Woest is the namesake of the Avenue Charles Woeste in Brussels.

He was a member of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KAV Lovania Leuven .

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SURNAME Woeste, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woeste, Charles Frédéric Auguste Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian, Catholic politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1922
Place of death Brussels