Charles de Romrée de Vichenet

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Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain François Jean de Romrée de Vichenet (born August 13, 1884 in Beuzet , † April 24, 1957 in Gembloux ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

His parents were Gabrielle de Beauffort (born February 1, 1865) and Henri de Romrée de Vichenet (born September 27, 1857 - † January 16, 1907). He married Madeleine Crombez on November 10, 1906 in Oostduinkerke (* May 31, 1887). Their children were Henri de Romrée de Vichenet (born September 10, 1907) and Marie de Romrée de Vichenet (born June 6, 1909 in Bern ).

Charles de Romrée de Vichenet was secretary of the Belgian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and from 1919 to 1921 at the ambassadors' conferences negotiating German reparations after the First World War . He was accredited in The Hague , Madrid, Mexico City, Havana . In 1940 he was called to London by the Belgian government in exile , where he headed the Politics Department in the Foreign Ministry from 1941 to 1943. From 1947 to 1949 he was Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels .

Individual evidence

  1. Éliane Gubin: Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles , p. 185
  2. Catherine Lanneau: L'inconnue française: la France et les Belges francophones, 1944–1945 , p. 69
predecessor Office successor
Belgian ambassador to Belgrade in
1931
Alain Kundycki
Walter Loridan Belgian ambassador in Madrid
1938 – November 1940
Jacques de Thier