Henri Moreau de Melen

Henri Moreau de Melen (born August 20, 1902 in Liège ; † May 31, 1992 ) was a Belgian officer and politician . He was the Belgian Minister of Justice and Defense .

Life

Moreau de Melen comes from an old noble family from the Liège region. He studied after school attendance law and graduated with the promotion to Doctor of Law from. He was a member of the Liège Bar Association when he was drafted into military service in 1940. Captured by German troops, he remained a prisoner of war until 1945 .

His political career began in 1946 when he was elected a member of the Senate , in which he represented the interests of the Liège district until 1968 as a member of the Christian Social Party ( French Parti social chrétien , PSC) . From 1965 to 1968 he was a member of the European Parliament.

In 1948 he was appointed by Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak as Minister of Justice in his cabinet, of which he was a member until August 1949. In the government of Prime Minister Jean Duvieusart , he was Minister of Defense from June to August 1950. Disappointed about the outcome of the "King's Question", Moreau de Melen - as a staunch Léopoldiste - gave up his post as Minister of Defense to take part in the Korean War (1950-1953) as a major in the Belgian Volunteer Corps .

literature

• Thierry Grosbois (Ed.): Moreau de Melen. Mémoires, de Léopold III à la Corée . Racine, Brussels 2009.

Web links

• Belgian Ministries