Henri Fromageot

Henri-Auguste Fromageot (born  September 10, 1864 in Versailles , †  September 11, 1949 there ) was a French lawyer and diplomat . He represented his home country at a number of international conferences as well as at the meetings of the Assembly, the Council and various commissions of the League of Nations . From 1929 to 1942 he worked as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice .

Life

Henri Fromageot was born in Versailles in 1864 and studied law at the Universities of Paris , Leipzig and Oxford . In 1891 he finished his studies with a doctorate at the University of Paris, where he received a gold medal for his academic achievements as well as in the national comparative tests. In the following years he acted as legal advisor to the French Foreign Ministry , which also entrusted him with various diplomatic missions. In addition, as a delegate from his home country, he took part in various international meetings, for example in 1907 at the second Hague Peace Conference , in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference and from 1920 in the meetings of the Assembly, the Council and various commissions of the League of Nations . He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and was a member or advisor in various arbitration tribunals and arbitration commissions for the settlement of international conflicts.

On September 19, 1929 he was elected judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice (StIGH), to which he had previously belonged as an ad hoc judge. He succeeded his compatriot André Weiss , who had previously died in office, and initially served for the duration of his remaining term of office until December 31, 1930. In the regular judge elections on September 25, 1930, he was re-elected for a further nine years, his term of office began on December 1, 1930 January 1931. Since the next scheduled judges' elections did not take place due to the beginning of the Second World War , he remained in office until after the end of the Second World War , even if the activities of the Permanent International Court of Justice were discontinued in 1942 due to the war. He resigned in June 1945 for reasons of age and health and died four years later in his hometown of Versailles. His estate is in the archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Awards

From 1908 Henri Fromageot belonged to the Institut de Droit international and was commander of the French Legion of Honor . The American Society for International Law made him an honorary member in 1925.

Works (selection)

• De la double nationalité des individus & des sociétés. Paris 1892
• Code maritime Britannique: loi anglaise sur la marine marchande. Paris 1896
• La Jurisprudence de la Cour Suprême des États-Unis en matière de prices pendant la guerre Hispano-Américaine. Paris 1901

literature

• Biographical Notes Concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. M. Henri Fromageot. In: Seventh Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1931, pp. 26/27
• June K. Burton: Fromageot, Henri-Auguste. In: Warren F. Kuehl (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Greenwood Press, Westport 1983, ISBN 0-31-322129-4 , pp. 277/278