Théophile de Lantsheere

Théophile de Lantsheere (painting by Herman Richir , 1907)

Théophile Charles André de Lantsheere (born November 4, 1833 in Asse , † February 21, 1918 in Brussels ) was a Belgian politician of the Catholic Party .

He was a longstanding member of the Chamber of Deputies and was Minister of Justice from 1871 to 1878. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies between 1884 and 1895 and received the honorary title of Minister of State in 1890 . He was a member of the Senate between 1900 and 1905 . He was most recently governor of the National Bank between 1905 and his death in 1918 .

In 1913 he was raised to the hereditary nobility of Belgium as Burggraaf .

Life

Deputy, Minister of Justice and President of the Chamber of Deputies

In the first government of Prime Minister Jules Malou , de Lantsheere was Minister of Justice between 1871 and 1878.

Théophile Charles André de Lantsheere, son of the doctor and lay judge Joseph de Lantsheere and his wife Marie Charlotte de Bolster, began studying law at the Catholic University of Leuven after attending the Sint-Jozefscollege in Aalst , which he obtained in 1857 with a doctorate in law completed. In 1858 he also obtained a doctorate in political science and administrative sciences there and then took up an activity as a lawyer in 1858 and was admitted to the Brussels Court of Justice as such until 1905. He was also legal advisor to Eugène de Ligne from the de Ligne family and Engelbert-August von Arenberg from the Arenberg family .

De Lantsheere began his political career in 1860 as a member of the Brabant Province Council , of which he was a member until 1871. On December 7, 1871, he became Minister of Justice in the Malou I government and held this office until June 19, 1878. On June 11, 1873, he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Catholic Party for the first time and represented interests in it on May 27, 1900 of the Diksmuide district . After he was initially Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies on July 23, 1884, he then acted as President of the Chamber of Deputies from November 12, 1884 to January 25, 1895 for more than ten years. Between 1887 and 1888 he also acted as chairman of the Bar Association at the Brussels Court of Justice and in 1889 became advisor to the Supreme Council for the Congo Free State and in 1890 a member of the board of the Compagnie Belge d'Assurances Générales contre les Risques d'Incendie . At the same time he was chairman of the budget committee between 1890 and 1895. He was also director of the National Bank from May 19, 1890 to 1899 .

Minister of State and Senator

For his many years of service, de Lantsheere received the honorary title of Minister of State on June 9, 1890 . In 1895 he became a member of the commission investigating the takeover of the Congo by Belgium. He was also a member of the library committee between 1896 and 1897 and a member of the finance committee of the Chamber of Deputies from 1896 to 1900. In addition, he was a board member of the Compagnie d'Electricité Thomsom-Houston de la Méditerranée from 1898 to 1903 and a member of the committee of the Fonds d'Amortissement de l'Emprunt à Lots du Congo between 1898 and 1902 , which dealt with loans for the Belgian Congo . In addition, the lawyer was from 1898 to 1907 chairman of the permanent commission for the investigation of questions of international private law and between 1899 and 1903 member of the board of the Société Hypothécaire belge-américaine .

Théophile de Lantsheere held the post of Vice Governor of the National Bank between 1899 and 1905 and was also a member of the Senate from June 13, 1900 to July 26, 1905 , in which he represented the interests of the Province of West Flanders . In 1901 he became a member of the Commission to Investigate the Military Situation in Belgium and was a member of the Supreme Council for the Congo between 1903 and 1908. In 1905 he was again a board member of the Société Hypothécaire belge-américaine and the Compagnie d'Electricité Thomsom-Houston de la Méditerranée .

Governor of the National Bank and Burgrave

Théophile de Lantsheere was the last Governor of the National Bank from 1905 until his death in 1918 .

Subsequently, de Lantsheere was on June 27, 1905 as the successor of Victor Van Hoegaerden Governor of the National Bank and held this post until his death on February 21, 1918, whereupon Leon Van der Rest took his place. He was also a member of the Board of Directors and member of the General Council of the Caisse Générale d'Epargne et de Retraite between 1905 and 1914 . In 1907 he was again a member of the board of the Compagnie Belge d'Assurances Générales contre les Risques d'Incendie and the Compagnie d'Assurances Générales sur la Vie . In addition, he was a member of the Supreme Council of the Colonial Ministry between 1908 and 1912 and again a member of the board of the Compagnie d'Assurances Générales sur la Vie from 1909 to 1918 and at the same time a member of the board of the Société Hypothécaire belge-américaine from 1909 to 1912 . Furthermore, in 1911 he was again a board member of the Compagnie Belge d'Assurances Générales contre les Risques d'Incendie and was also a board member of the Carnegie Hero Fund between 1912 and 1914 .

In 1913, Théophile Charles André de Lantsheere was raised to the hereditary nobility of Belgium as Burggraaf . At the same time, as a lawyer, he was a member of the Commission for the Revision of Civil Law in 1914 and, between 1914 and his death, was again a member of the boards of the Compagnie Belge d'Assurances Générales contre les Risques d'Incendie and the Société Hypothécaire belge-américaine .

Awards, marriage and offspring

He has been honored several times for his many years of service. Among other things, he received the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order , the First Class Civil Cross and the Government Medal from King Leopold II. In addition, he received the Grand Crosses of the Luxembourg Order of the Oak Crown , the Order of the Crown of Romania , the Russian Imperial and Royal Order of the White Eagle , the Chinese Order of the Double Dragon , the Persian Order of the Sun and Lion and the Order of Pius .

From his marriage to Leonie Beeckman de Crayloo came two daughters and two sons, including Léon de Lantsheere , who was also Minister of Justice between 1908 and 1911, and the diplomat Auguste de Lantsheere, who was temporarily mayor of Meldert .

Publications

• Le dossier d'un Brigand , Brussels 1898

Web links

• Entry in Ars Moriendi
• Entry in ODIS

Individual evidence

1. ^ Government of Malou I in De Belgische regeringen - Les Gouvernements de la Belgique (1831-1899)