Maurice August Lippens

Maurice August Lippens

Maurice Auguste Eugène Charles Marie Ghislain Graf Lippens (born August 21, 1875 in Ghent , East Flanders , Belgium ; † July 12, 1956 in Ixelles / Elsene , Brussels-Capital Region , Belgium) was a Belgian liberal politician who, among other things, was Governor General of Belgian -Kongo , Minister and President of the Belgian Senate on several occasions .

biography

After schooling Lippens studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and was after promotion to Doctor of Law as a lawyer working.

A little later he also began a career in local politics and was initially mayor of Moerbeke from 1906 to 1920 . At the same time he was governor of the province of East Flanders between 1919 and 1921 .

This was followed by his appointment as Governor General of the Belgian Congo in 1921 and he retained this position during the League of Nations mandate until 1923. After his return to Belgium, he became a member of the Senate and was a member of it from 1925 to 1939. At the same time he was again mayor of Moerbeke between 1926 and 1937.

In 1927 Prime Minister Henri Jaspar appointed him Minister of Railways, Post and Telegraphy, Aviation and Maritime Affairs. As part of a government reshuffle, he was Minister of Transport from 1929 until the end of Jaspar's tenure in June 1931.

In the government of Prime Minister Charles de Broqueville , he was Minister for Public Education from October 1932 to November 1934. For his political merits, he and Cyrille Van Overbergh were awarded the honorary title of Minister of State on July 31, 1934 .

After leaving the government, Count Lippens was President of the Senate from November 13, 1934 to April 13, 1936.

During the occupation of Belgium by the Wehrmacht , he played a key role in the summer of 1940 when he formed a directory that tried to confirm the presence of King Leopold III. in the country and thus to force his reign. The Court noted, numerous conversations with the right-wing - Fascist Flemish National Alliance ( Vlaams Nationaal Verbond ) and with the Association of German National Solidarity ( Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal Solidarists (Verdinaso) ). Ultimately, these attempts to establish its own diplomacy and a new Flemish nationalist collaboration were unsuccessful.

family

Lippens was the father-in-law (and uncle) of Léon Lippens , mayor of Knokke from 1947 to 1966 , as well as the grandfather of Leopold Comte Lippens, the current mayor of Knokke-Heist, and of Maurice Comte Lippens, chairman of the board of Fortis until 2008 and from 2004 to 2008 member of the Belgacom Board of Directors . The sister of the two aforementioned, Elisabeth, was married to Ferdinand von Bismarck (1930–2019).

Web links

Commons : Maurice August Lippens  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Family tree of the Lippens family
• Newspaper article about Maurice August Lippens in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

Commons : Maurice August Lippens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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