Jean van den Bosch (diplomat)

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Jean Baptiste Emanuel Remie Marie van den Bosch (born January 27, 1910 in Ghent , † December 15, 1985 in Uccle near Brussels ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Jean Van den Bosch was the son of Anna De Volder (1870-1956) and Firmin Vanden Bosch (born December 19, 1865 in Tongeren , † January 20, 1949 in Saint-Gilles). The father was a senior judge in Ghent, served in Egypt in 1911 , was a friend of Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby and most recently Procureur Général auprès de la Cour d'Appel (Attorney General).

Jean Van den Bosch studied law, history, political and diplomatic sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1927 to 1932 . After entering the diplomatic service (1932) he was the embassy secretary in Beijing (1937-1940), Ottawa (1940-1942) and London (1942-1944), where in 1944 he married the Belgian Hélène Cloquet. From 1944 to 1948 he was diplomatic advisor to Prince Karel, the Prince Regent in Brussels. He was then an advisor to the Belgian Ambassade in Cairo (1948–49) and Paris (1949–1953). He was promoted to ambassador and received exequatur as Belgian consul general in Hong Kong with the district of Macau and Saigon (1953-1954), and finally ambassador in Cairo (1954-1959).

From June 30, 1960 to January 30, 1962 he was the Belgian ambassador in Kinshasa in the Republic of the Congo . In his memoir, published posthumously in 1986, Bosch claims that Joseph Kasavubu spoke to Belgian advisers in early July 1960 about revoking Patrice Lumumba’s appointment as prime minister.

Van den Bosch encouraged Justin Bomboko , the foreign minister in the Lumumba government, to overthrow Lumumba. On August 8, 1960, the Congolese government under Patrice Lumumba declared a state of emergency, ordered the closure of the seven Belgian consulates and ordered Bosch to leave the state by noon on the same day, after which Bosch, escorted by United Nations troops, followed suit Ghana [?] Let go.

From 1959 to 1965 Van den Bosch held the office of Secretary General of the Belgian Foreign Ministry. During this time he planned the Air Union , an aviation cartel of the six EEC states.

On May 9, 1965, he was accepted into the Royal Victorian Order as an honorary Knight Grand Cross and served as director of the Belgian branch of Lloyds Bank International.

From 1966 to 1972 he was the representative of the Belgian government at the Council of the Western European Union .

publication

  • Mémoire de M. l'ambassadeur Jean van den Bosch relatif aux événements des 6 et 7 juillet 1960, à Léopoldville. Chronique de politique étrangère.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malak Badrawi, Isma'il Sidqi, 1875–1950: pragmatism and vision in twentieth century Egypt , p. 27
  2. ↑ Lumumba's dismissal on September 5 has long remained controversial. From the memoirs of Belgian ambassador Jean van den Bosch (1986) we know that Congolese President Kasavubu began talking with Belgian advisors about revoking Lumumba's premiership as early as July 1960. [1]
  3. ↑ Fidelis Etah Ewane, The United Nations in the Congo from 1960-64 : Critical Assessment 2010 - 36 pp., 6.
  4. ↑ A few hours before Lumumba's news conference, his government declared a state of emergency throughout The Congo and ordered the immediate closing of Belgium's seven consulates in the vast Central African nation. The government also ordered Baron Jean Van den Bosch head of the Belgian diplomatic mission in Leopoldville, to quit the country before noon. see: Red Bank Register, August 9, 1960, UN Orders Belgian Troops Withdrawn (PDF; 9.3 MB)
  5. ↑ Peter Scholl-Latour , Matata am Kongo , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1961-307 pp., P. 76
  6. ↑ Gerhard Th Mollin, The USA and Colonialism: America as a Partner and Successor to Belgian Power in Africa , 1939–1965
  7. ^ Honorary Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  8. ↑ "Her husband, Baron Jean van den Bosch, a career diplomat, is now Belgium's ambassador to London. Their Belgrave Square home suggests diplomacy on a lavish scale. The reception rooms are on the ground and the first floors, linked by a central staircase lined with huge Belgian tapestries. The cosiest room is the large ground floor sitting room. “This is our home as well as the embassy, ​​and personal things are important.” Personal things abound, particularly souvenirs from the East. There are cabinets of eighteenth -century china; the dining room table is Peking black lacquered, and its Oriental style chairs were made to match in England. The Baroness also has a collection of hands; she showed us a white pair from Casa Pupo, and a very delicate china hand from Malta. Her husband is also ambassador there. The Baroness knows England of old. She went to a day school in Hove, Sussex during the First World War. She returned here when war broke out again. "First I operated a bureau for refu gees who were pouring into this country; then I moved to the Belgian Board of Education. "It was during this period that she re-met van den Bosch - after 1 1 years" see: The Illustrated London news & Sketch Ltd., 1969
  9. ↑ Catherine Lanneau, L'inconnue française: la France et les Belges francophones , 1944-1945 p. 426 FN 180
predecessor Office successor
Belgian ambassador in Kinshasa
1960–1962 		Edouard Longerstaey
Permanent representative of Belgium to the Western European Union
1966–1972 		Edouard Longerstaey
Emile de Cartier de Marchienne Belgian ambassador in London
1965–1972 		Robert Rothschild
Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem Chairman of the International Club Chateau Sainte-Anne
1973–1979 		Papeians de Morchoven
personal data
SURNAME Van den Bosch, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van den Bosch, Jean Baptiste Emanuel Remie Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1985
Place of death Uccle near Brussels