Eric Louw

Eric Louw

Eric Hendrik Louw (born November 21, 1890 in Jacobsdal , † June 24, 1968 in Cape Town ) was a South African politician and diplomat .

Life

Louw studied at Victoria College in Stellenbosch and at Rhodes University in Grahamstown . From 1917 to 1918 he practiced the profession of attorney in Grahamstown. He ran his family's business in Beaufort West .

From 1924 to 1925 and from 1938 to 1963 he sat in parliament for the National Party . From 1948 to 1954 he was the Trade Representative of the South African Union in the United States of America and Canada . In 1929 he was South African High Commissioner for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland in London . From 1929 to 1933 Louw represented the Union of South Africa as ambassador in Washington, DC and then in Rome .

From 1933 to 1937 he was ambassador in Paris . Thereafter, from 1948 to 1953, Louw worked in the cabinet of Daniel François Malan as his country's Minister of Economic Affairs. From 1955 to 1956 he took over the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1963 . He represented the government of the South African Union and the Republic of South Africa to the League of Nations , later to the United Nations, and was retired in 1963 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean van der Poel, Selections from the Smuts Papers : Volume VII, August 1945-October 1950, p. 415

predecessor	Office	successor
	South African High Commissioner in the United Kingdom 1929	1954–1956: Gerhardus Petrus Jooste
	South African envoy to the United States November 5, 1929 to 1933	Ralph William Close
	South African envoy to Italy in 1933
	South African envoy to France from 1933 to 1937	1949–1957: Harry Thomson Andrews
	South African Minister of Economic Affairs 1948 to 1953
Nicolaas Havenga	South African Minister of Finance 1955 to 1956	Jozua François Naudé
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom	South African Foreign Minister 1955 to 1963	Hilgard Muller