Walter Loridan

Walter Loridan (born February 22, 1909 in Menen , † 1997 ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Walter Loridan studied commercial engineering at the University of Brussels , received his doctorate in political science and lectured at the University of Brussels. He entered the foreign service in 1932, became an attaché in Washington and in 1936 in Warsaw .

From 1943 to 1947 he was the office manager of Paul-Henri Spaak , Foreign Minister of the Belgian government-in-exile in London and Brussels. In 1945 he was a participant in the San Francisco Conference . From 1948 to 1951 he headed the Politics Department in the Belgian Foreign Ministry. The Belgian legation in Mexico City was upgraded to an embassy in 1954 under his leadership . Loridan was the representative of the Belgian government at the UN headquarters during the desengagement proceedings in the Republic of the Congo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catherine Lanneau: L'inconnue française. La France et les Belges francophones (1944-1945). Peter Lang, Bruxelles 2008, ISBN 978-90-5201-397-8 , p. 190, footnote 13 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ http://www.life.com/image/50560196
3. ^ Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine: Belgisch tijdschrift voor nieuwste geschiedenis. Volume 14, 1983

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Berryer	Belgian chargé d'affaires in Valencia and Barcelona May 19, 1937–1939	Charles de Romrée de Vichenet
1879–1880: Jules Greindl	Belgian ambassador to Mexico City 1951–1954
Edouard Le Ghait	Belgian ambassador to Moscow 1955–1959	Hippolite cools
Fernand Van Langenhove	Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations in New York 1959 – July 1965	Constant Schuurmans
1953–1959: Hervé de Gruben 1959: Remi Baert	Belgian ambassador in Cologne July 1965–1968	Claude Ruelle
Louis Scheyven	Belgian ambassador to Washington December 1969–1974	Willy Van Cauwenberg