Hubert Pierlot

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The Count Hubert Pierlot , Politician, law professor, president of the Belgian catholic Union, was born with Cugnon the December 23rd 1883 and deceased with Uccle the December 13rd 1963.

After secondary studies at the abbey school of Maredsous then to the college Saint-Michel of the Jesuits with Brussels. Hubert Pierlot obtains his diploma for the occupation of doctor in Right and a license in Political sciences of the the University of Louvain.

From February 1919 at December 1920 occupied the functions of principal private secretary of the first Belgian minister Leon Delacroix.

It became appointed catholic (later social-Christian) of Neufchâteau in 1925. It was provincial Senator Luxembourg of 1926 to 1936 and senator of Arlon of 1936 to 1946. Agriculture and Minister of Interior Department (1934-1935) (1934-1935 and 1936-1939), he became Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture (1939).

Prime Minister and Foreign Minister (1939) with the head of a coalition catholic-Socialist, then catholic-liberal, Hubert Pierlot direct a tripartite government of National union since the beginning of the war (September 3rd, 1939) until the beginning of the German occupation (1940) in very difficult circumstances. He met with Paul-Henri Spaak the president of the council Paul Reynaud, the marshal Pétain and the general Weygand on May 27th, 1940. The interview was stormy at a few hours of the Belgian capitulation but Mr. Pierlot posted a worthy attitude. He joined with Paul-Henri Spaak on October 22nd, 1940 the Ministers Camille Gutt and Albert de Vleeschauwer in London. He directed, during the War, the Belgian government in exile in London of 1940 to 1944. October 3rd, 1941, he wrote with the Général de Gaulle: " The Belgian government solved to you reconnaiitre in the capacity as chief of the French Free S which rejoined the cause of Alliés… " Of return in Belgium, it directed a government quadripartite including/understanding catholic, socialist, liberal and Communists then a government without the latter of the December 1944 in February 1945. Hubert Pierlot was named Minister of state on September 3rd 1945.

About Hubert Pierlot, Spaak was to write: " Serious until severity, honest until the scruple, worker untiring, Christian enthusiastic, patriotic, model of the civic, professional and family virtues, he was a man of bien" (P. - H. Spaak, Combat unfinished, Beech 1969, volume I, p. 59).

It dies out with Uccle in 1963.

Functions

  • Minister of state.
  • Prime Minister, 1939-1945.
  • Minister for National defense, 1942-1944.
  • Public Minister for Labor, 1943-1944.
  • Minister for Justice, 1937,1940-1942.
  • Minister for the State education, 1940.
  • Minister for Agriculture, 1935,1936-1938, 1939.
  • Minister of Interior Department, 1934-1936.
  • Member of the Room of the Representatives.
  • Major Honoraire of the Infantry.

External bond

  • William Ugeux - National Biography.

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