Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns

Edouard Gustave Marie Rolin-Jaequemyns (born January 23, 1863 in Ghent , † July 11, 1936 in Brussels ) was a Belgian lawyer , diplomat and politician . Among other things, he worked from 1925 to 1926 as Belgian interior minister, from 1928 to 1930 as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and from 1931 to 1936 as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice .

Life

Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns was born in Ghent in 1863 and studied humanities in his hometown and in Paris as well as natural sciences and law in Ghent and Brussels . He received his doctorate in Ghent in 1884 and initially settled there as a lawyer. From 1891 he belonged to the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law) as an associate and from 1896 as a full member. From 1891 to 1894 he was treasurer of the institute, in 1923 he chaired the 31st meeting and in 1936 the 40th meeting of the institute, both of which took place in Brussels. From June 17, 1925 to May 19, 1926 he was Minister of the Interior and Health of his home country for the Unitaire Liberale Partij . From 1928 to 1930 he served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague , and then from 1931 until his death in 1936 as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice . His successor in this position was Charles De Visscher .

In the diplomatic field, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns worked, among other things, as Consul General Siams in Belgium and represented the country, with the support of his father Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns , at the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 . In addition, between 1928 and 1930 he was a member of the Belgian delegations to the meetings of the League of Nations on several occasions . From 1920 to 1925 he was a High Commissioner for his home country on the Inter-Allied High Committee for the Rhineland (Rhineland Commission), which existed from 1920 to 1930 and, after the First World War, administered the areas of the Rhineland occupied by France , Belgium , Great Britain and the USA .

Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns died in Brussels in 1936 . In addition to his father, who, among other things, had co-founded the Institut de Droit international and, like his son, also served as Belgian interior minister from 1878 to 1884, his uncle Albéric Rolin and his son Henri Rolin also worked as lawyers in the field of international law.

literature

• Sally Marks: Rolin-Jaequemyns, Edouard. In: Warren F. Kuehl (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Greenwood Press, Westport 1983, ISBN 0-31-322129-4 , pp. 624/625
• Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns. In: Arthur Eyffinger: The First Hague Peace Conference of 1899: The Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World. Kluwer Law International, The Hague 1999, ISBN 9-04-111192-1 , pp. 185/186
• Biographical Notes concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. Baron Rolin-Jaequemyns, Judge. In: Seventh Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1931, pp. 24/25

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