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
- ^ 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 )
- ↑ http://www.life.com/image/50560196
- ^ Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine: Belgisch tijdschrift voor nieuwste geschiedenis. Volume 14, 1983
predecessor | Office | successor |
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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 |
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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 |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loridan, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Men |
DATE OF DEATH | 1997 |