Charles Woeste

Charles Frédéric Auguste Count Woeste ( born February 26, 1837 in Brussels, † April 5, 1922 in Brussels) was a Belgian lawyer and politician.

Family

Charles Woeste came from the Prussian family Woeste and was naturalized on 15 January 1841 in Belgium. He was the son of the marriage of Edouard Woeste, a native of the Rhenish Elberfeld, and Constance Vauthier from Lorraine. Edouard Woeste Prussian consul from 1843 to 1853. 1855 converted the Protestant with the help of his mother to Catholicism. On January 4, 1866 he married Marie Greindl, daughter of Lieutenant-General Leonard Earl Greindl, the Minister of War in the Cabinet De Decker had been from 1855.

Life

Charles Woeste studied law at the Royal Athenaeum in Brussels. In 1858 he received his doctorate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for Doctor of Law. He then worked as a lawyer in the Bar Association of Brussels. He was dean of the College of Lawyers of Cassation.

In 1869 he founded the Catholic Party ( Katholieke Partij ), the Verbond van Katholieke Kringen, which was in 1921 renamed the Katholieke Unie van arbeiders, burgers, middenstanders s landbouwers and after 1945 went up in the Christians - Democratisch en Vlaams. He was a longtime member of the Belgian Parliament for the district of Aalst. He was among other Belgian Minister of Justice in 1884 and 1891 Minister of State.

Woeste has received several national and international awards, including the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold ( Grootkruis in de Leopoldsorde ), the Belgian Order of Merit 1st class ( Burgerlijk Kruis 1st class), the Order of Christ and the papal Gregoriusorden and the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. Woest is named after the Avenue Charles Woeste in Brussels.

He was a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem. He was an honorary member of the Catholic fraternity KAV Lovania lions.