Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers

Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers (born July 2, 1907 in Bois-Seigneur-Isaac , † May 17, 1991 ibid) was a Belgian politician .

Life

The son of Baron Thierry Snoy et d'Oppuers (1862-1930) studied law, economics and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and at Harvard . In 1932 he received his doctorate with an economics thesis on American customs policy. From 1939 to 1959 he was general secretary in the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs (with a break of several years during the German occupation 1940-1944). In this role he was one of the top European politicians after the Second World War, who negotiated and signed the Treaty of Rome of 1957. In 1958/59 he was the permanent representative of Belgium to the European Economic Community (EEC). Between 1960 and 1968 Snoy worked for Banque Lambert in Brussels. From 1968 to 1971 he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Catholic Parti social chrétien (PSC) . From June 1968 to November 1971 he was Belgian Minister of Finance. From 1970 to 1976 he was mayor of his home town Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac.

Jean-Charles Snoy married Countess Nathalie d'Alcantara (1914–2007) in 1935, with whom he had seven children.

Services

Jean-Charles Snoy belonged to the generation of European politicians who initiated the process of European integration in the 1950s under the impact of World War II. In recognition of this achievement, he received the Robert Schuman Prize (Alfred Toepfer Foundation) in 1983, along with numerous other honors.

Honors

• 1958: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

• Rebâtir l'Europe, Mémoires . Paris: Duculot, 1989, ISBN 2-8011-0861-8 .

literature

• Vincent Dujardin and Michel Dumoulin: Jean-Charles Snoy: homme dans la Cité, artisan de l'Europe, 1907-1991 , Le Cri, 2010

Web links

• Directory of the estate (PDF; 740 kB)