Louis De Sadeleer

Louis Marie Joseph De Sadeleer (born October 6, 1852 in Haaltert , East Flanders , Belgium , † May 6, 1924 in Brussels ) was a Belgian diplomat and politician of the Catholic Party .

biography

After attending school, he studied law and obtained a doctorate in law . He began his political career in 1878 when he was elected to both the Haaltert Municipal Council until 1884 and the Council of the Province of East Flanders until 1882.

In 1882 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and represented the interests of the Catholic Party in it until 1912. In the following years he was first secretary and vice-president, before he was finally president of the Chamber of Deputies between July 18, 1900 and November 8, 1901. In 1910 he became of King Albert I. Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister in Portugal appointed. After leaving the Chamber of Deputies, he was honored with the honorary title of Minister of State and a member of the Senate on August 14, 1912 for his services .

During his long membership in parliament, De Sadeleer dealt in particular with questions of foreign policy and was appointed chairman of an arbitration tribunal in Port-au-Prince in 1913 to resolve the diplomatic conflict between Haiti and the German Empire that had existed since the Markomannia incident of 1902 . After the outbreak of World War I, he went on a special mission to the United Kingdom and the United States in September 1914 to receive support for the establishment of funds and aid programs for the Belgian population.

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