Fernand Muûls
Fernand François Edmond Marie Baron Muûls (born July 12, 1892 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode , † March 2, 1981 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre ) was a Belgian diplomat .
Career
Muûls studied political science and law. After receiving his doctorate in Brussels in 1919, he entered the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Belgium. With the rank of attaché, he worked in the legal department of the Belgian Foreign Ministry from 1920. In 1921 he became head of the cabinet of the Belgian High Commissioner in Koblenz, but returned to the Foreign Ministry in 1926. In 1930 he also took on a professorship for the history of diplomacy, international law and constitutional law at the War Academy in Brussels. In 1937 he represented the Belgian government in the case of Jacques de Borchgrave at the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague . In 1943 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, 1st Class. appointed.
As a representative of Belgium, Muûls took part in a number of international conferences after the end of the Second World War, for example in the Standing Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946 and at the conference on the adoption of the Schuman Plan .
On May 12, 1951, he was appointed Ambassador of Belgium to the German Federal Government in Bonn . In 1953 he became ambassador to Ottawa and was a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations . In 1958 he was president of the Belgian delegation to the international conference on the law of the sea, which met in Geneva.
Honors
- 1953: Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Fernand Muuls , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 33/1951 from August 6, 1951, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Nouvelle biography national . - Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1988–1997
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muûls, Fernand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muûls, Fernand François Edmond Marie Baron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Josse-ten-Noode |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1981 |
| Place of death | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre |