List of Belgian ambassadors in the United Kingdom
This is a list of the Belgian envoys and ambassadors to the United Kingdom (since 1953).
history
As early modern territorial units of today's Belgium, the Burgundian Netherlands (1477–1556), the Spanish-Habsburg Netherlands (1556–1714) and the Austrian Netherlands (1714–1795) belonged to the territories of the Holy Roman Empire and stood in each case under the direct sovereignty of various branches of the House of Habsburg . Although at that time it never appeared as a sovereign state in diplomatic relations with foreign powers, this “Southern Netherlands” played a special role in the relations of the Roman-German emperors with England and the United Kingdom .
After the Belgian Revolution and the proclamation of the Kingdom of Belgium on October 4, 1830, the United Kingdom was one of the first states to recognize the sovereignty of the Belgian state and to establish diplomatic relations . The London Mission became the most important foreign mission for the state, whose territorial integrity was threatened at the time . The British government supported the convening of the London Conferences of 1830 and 1838 , which resulted in Belgium being recognized internationally.
Heads of mission
Burgundian ambassadors to England
- 1544–1550: Frans van der Dilft (* 1500; † 1550)
- 1550–1553: Jean Scheyfve (* 1515; † 1581)
- 1553–1555: Simon Renard (* 1513; † 1573)
Belgian Envoys and Ambassadors to the United Kingdom
- 1831: Establishment of diplomatic relations
| Appointment / accreditation |
Recall | Surname | Remarks | appointed by |
accredited at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1831, Jul 24 | 1845 | Sylvain van de Weyer | (* 1802; † 1874) envoy, before that from 1831 to 1831 foreign minister , then from 1845 to 1846 prime minister , head of mission in the United Kingdom with interruptions until 1867 | Leopold I. | William IV |
| 1845 | 1846 | Leopold I. | Victoria | ||
| 1846 | 1867 | Sylvain van de Weyer | (* 1802; † 1874) envoy, second term of office | Leopold I. | Victoria |
| 1867 | 1869 | Aldephonse du Jardin | (* 1796; † 1870) envoy, prior to that 1840 to 1845 chargé d' affaires to the Hanseatic cities , 1845 to 1848 envoy in Denmark , 1849 to 1853 in Spain , 1853 to 1858 to the German Confederation , 1858 to 1867 in the Netherlands | Leopold II. | Victoria |
| 1869 | 1872 | Napoléon-Alcindor de Beaulieu | (* 1805; † 1872) envoy, prior to that 1839 to 1840 chargé d' affaires in Prussia , 1840 to 1845 in Portugal , 1845 to 1849 envoy in the United States , 1849 to 1858 in Denmark , 1858 to 1869 in Bavaria | Leopold II. | Victoria |
| 1872 | 1894, Jan. 2 | Ignace-Henri de Solvyns | (* 1817; † 1894) envoy, envoy in the Ottoman Empire from 1858 to 1860 , from 1861 to 1872 in Sardinia-Piedmont, then Italy | Leopold II. | Victoria |
| 1895 | 1903 | Edouard Whettnall | (* 1839; † 1903) envoy, before that from 1889 to 1894 envoy to the Holy See | Leopold II. | Victoria |
| 1903 | 1914 | Charles VI. de Lalaing | (* 1856; † 1919) envoy, envoy in Brazil from 1893 to 1896 , in Romania from 1896 to 1899, and in Switzerland from 1899 to 1903 | Leopold II. | Edward VII |
| 1915 | 1916 | Paul Hymans | (* 1865; † 1941) envoy, then 1918 to 1920, 1924 to 1925, 1927 to 1935 foreign minister | Albert I. | George V. |
| 1917 | 1927 | Ludovic Moncheur | (* 1857; † 1940) envoy, previously envoy to Mexico from 1897 to 1901 , to the United States from 1901 to 1909 , and to the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1914 | Albert I. | George V. |
| 1927 | 1946 | Emile de Cartier de Marchienne | (* 1871; † 1946) envoy, before that envoy to China from 1910 to 1917 , to the United States from 1917 to 1927 , and to Cuba from 1926 to 1927 | Albert I. | George V. |
| 1946, June 19 | 1952 | Alain Obert de Thieusies | (1888–1979) envoy, prior to that from 1932 to 1940 envoy to Czechoslovakia | Leopold III. | George VI. |
| 1953, May 20 | 1958 | Alain du Pare | († not specified) Ambassador, before that until 1948 Ambassador to Sweden, 1948 to 1953 in Canada | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| 1958 | 1961 | René van Meerbeke | († 1971) Ambassador, before that until 1958 Ambassador to Brazil | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| 1962 | 1965 | Jacques de Thier | (1900–1993) Ambassador, before that from 1944 to 1946 Chargé d'affaires in Spain , 1955 to 1958 Ambassador to Mexico , 1958 to 1962 in Canada | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| 1965 | 1972 | Jean van den Bosch | (1910–1985) Ambassador, from 1960 to 1962 Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo , 1966 to 1972 Permanent Representative to the Western European Union | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| 1973 | 1976 | Robert Rothschild | (1911–1998) Ambassador, from 1964 to 1966 Ambassador to Switzerland , 1966 to 1973 in France | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| 1977, Feb. 17 | 1981 | Robert Vaes | (1919–2000) Ambassador, from 1972 to 1976 Ambassador to Spain | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| Baudouin | Elizabeth II | ||||
| 1984, Feb. 24 | 1990 | Jean-Paul Van Bellinghen | (* 1925; † 1993) Ambassador, from 1971 to 1973 Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, 1980 to 1983 Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Baudouin | Elizabeth II |
| Baudouin | Elizabeth II | ||||
| 1994 | 1997 | Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet | (* 1947) Chargé d'Affaires, then from 2000 to 2003 ambassador to Brazil , from 2003 to 2006 in Israel , from 2006 to 2010 again head of mission in the United Kingdom | Albert II | Elizabeth II |
| 1997 | 2002 | Lode Willems | (* 1948) Ambassador, from 1994 to 1997 Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, then from 2002 to 2006 Ambassador to Germany | Albert II | Elizabeth II |
| 2002 | 2006 | Thierry de pits | (* 1941) Ambassador, from 1985 to 1990 Ambassador to Poland, 1990 to 1995 Ambassador to the Soviet Union, then to the Russian Federation , 1997 to 2002 Permanent Representative to NATO | Albert II | Elizabeth II |
| 2006 | 2010 | Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet | (* 1947) Ambassador, second term of office | Albert II | Elizabeth II |
| 2010 | 2014 | Johan Verbeke | (* 1951) Ambassador, from 1988 to 1990 Chargé d'affaires in Chile, 2004 to 2008 Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York | Albert II | Elizabeth II |
| 2014 | Guy Trouveroy | (* 1952) Ambassador, from 2009 to 2014 Ambassador to Russia | Philippe | Elizabeth II |
- Status: March 2016
Web links
Commons : Ambassadors of Belgium - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raoul Delcorte: Belgian diplomats , Editions Mardaga, Brussels 2012
- ^ A b Alexandre-Hippolyte Tarlier: Almanach royal de Belgique , Librairie Polytechnique, Brussels 1845, p. 13
- ↑ a b Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbook of diplomacy, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad Metternich to Adenauer , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, p 49
- ↑ A. Vandeplas: Solvyns, Henri-Ignace-Stanislas (Baron) , Biography coloniale belge / Belgian colonial biography, Brussels 1956, p 769
- ^ Documents by and about Rothschild, Robert (Baron) in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Notes: The heads of Belgian missions to international organizations are permanent representatives in the rank of ambassador .