Eugène Soudan

Eugène Edouard César Gaëtan Soudan (born December 4, 1880 in Ronse , East Flanders , Belgium , † November 30, 1960 in Brussels ) was a Belgian legal scholar , university professor and politician of the Belgian Workers' Party .

biography

After attending school, he studied law and was after the promotion to Doctor of Law as a Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel operates.

In addition, he began a political career and was first elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1919 , where he initially represented the interests of the Arrondissement of Oudenaarde until 1936 . In addition, he was mayor of his native city of Ronse between 1926 and 1958 .

On March 25, 1935, Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland appointed him to a government for the first time as Minister of Justice and was a member of this government until June 13, 1936. After leaving the Chamber of Deputies, he was a member of the Senate between 1936 and 1939 , where he represented the Belgian Workers' Party.

In 1938 he was finance minister for some time and foreign minister in 1939 . In 1939 he was again a member of the Chamber of Deputies and this time represented the Arrondissement of Oudenaarde until 1958.

He was also Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot for two days in April 1939 and then again from September 3, 1939 to January 5, 1940 . After a cabinet reshuffle in 1940, he was appointed Minister for Public Education and, after a further reshuffle in the government, between 1940 and 1944, he was appointed Minister without portfolio . While in France , he was captured by the Wehrmacht on October 26, 1943 and imprisoned in Fresnes prison. He was then transferred to Buchenwald Concentration Camp , where Paul-Émile Janson was another minister without portfolio at the time . While Janson died there on March 3, 1944, Soudan survived imprisonment and was liberated there by the US Army in early April 1945 .

For his political achievements, he was honored with the honorary title of Minister of State on September 3, 1945, along with numerous other politicians .

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