Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Count Paul de Smet de Naeyer ( born May 13, 1843 in Ghent, † September 9, 1913 in Brussels) was a Belgian Catholic politician and Prime Minister.
Family and professional activities
The son of an industrialist family from Ghent was later a partner in the family cotton business as well as co-owner of a bank, Director General of the then largest Belgian investment company Société Générale de Belgique and shareholder of numerous coal mines.
Political career
Member of Parliament and Senator
In 1886 he became a member of the House of Representatives and represented there until 1908, the interests of the Katholieke Partij the arrondissement of Ghent - Eeklo. From 1908 until his death he was then senator of the province of East Flanders.
Minister and two-time Prime Minister
On March 26, 1894, he became Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Jules de Burlet, whom he succeeded in the office of Prime Minister on 25 February 1896. In his reigning until January 24, 1899 the Cabinet, he also became in turn the office of the Minister of Finance.
After reigning until August 5, 1899 Transitional Cabinet by Jules Vandenpeereboom de Smet de Naeyer took over the office of Prime Minister again. He remained until May 2, 1907 office and was also the Minister of Finance and Minister of Public Works. During this tenure, he sat down for a strengthening of the Navy. De Smet de Naeyer was opponents of universal suffrage and the state education.
For his political services in 1899 he was awarded the honorary title of " Minister of State ". 1900 King Leopold II knighted him to the Count.
Biographical sources
- Biography in skynet.be
- Biography in ars- moriendi.be
- Biography in Biografias y vidas.com
Background literature
- List of ministers of the Cabinet 1896-1899
- List of ministers of the Cabinet 1899-1907
- Ypersele, Laurence van: " L'image du Roi dans la caricature politique en Belgique de 1884 à 1914 "
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- Prime Minister (Belgium )
- Minister of State (Belgium )
- Belgian
- Born in 1843
- Died in 1913
- Man
- Minister of Public Works (Belgium )