Georges Theunis

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Georges Theunis (1921)

Georges Emile Léonard Theunis (born February 28, 1873 in Montegnée , † January 4, 1966 in Brussels ) was a Belgian Catholic politician and Prime Minister.

Political career

Prime Minister 1921 to 1925

Theunis studied electrical engineering and was an engineer in the military. After the First World War he was a member of the Commission for Reparations Payments in 1919 . On November 20, 1920, then Prime Minister Henri Carton de Wiart appointed him Minister of Finance. When he himself served as Prime Minister from December 16, 1921 to May 13, 1925 as the successor to Carton de Wiart, he continued to hold the office of finance minister. After the occupation of the Ruhr , he sought increased foreign policy contact with Great Britain . His greatest success during this reign was the signing of the Belgian- Luxembourg Economic Union. In June 1923 he resigned from the office of Prime Minister because of the "language dispute" at the University of Ghent , but was reappointed to this office shortly afterwards.

President of the International Chamber of Commerce

In 1925 he was awarded the royal honorary title of "Minister of State". From 1925 to 1926 he was a senator and represented the interests of the Katholieke Partij. From 1929 to 1931 he was President of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) . On October 22, 1932, Prime Minister Charles de Broqueville made him Minister of Defense, but resigned that same year.

Prime Minister 1934 to 1935

From November 20, 1934 to March 25, 1935 he was again Prime Minister as the successor to de Broqueville. To fight the economic crisis of the time , he appointed experts from the financial sector to his cabinet.

From November 27, 1941 to November 4, 1944, he was Governor of the National Bank of Belgium and, in this capacity, took part as a special envoy at a conference of the International Monetary Fund of the future United Nations (UN) in Bretton Woods (USA) in July 1944.

In addition to his political duties, he was president of the child protection association Oeuvre Nationale de l'Enfance (ONE) from 1936 to 1966.

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SURNAME Theunis, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theunis, Georges Emile Léonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Montegnée
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1966
Place of death Brussels