Alexandre Gendebien

Alexandre Gendebein ( born May 4, 1789 in Mons, † December 6, 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian politician.

Gendebein worked as a lawyer in 1829 and made his name as a defender of the editor Louis de Potter, in his opposition paper Courrier des Pays -Bas he himself was a member, as this was made by the Government of the process. He followed up on successful connections with the tips of the French Movement Party and sought in every way to bring about the separation of Belgium from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

During the Revolution of 1830 he was a member of the provisional government and besides Louis De Potter declared Republican. Gendebein was a member of the National Congress and took over under the regency Surlet de Chokiers the Ministry of Justice. After the election of Prince Leopold of Saxe -Coburg to the Belgian king, he took a decidedly oppositional stance has since followed system of government. Later he became president of the Supreme Court.

Was Gendebein the bedeundste representatives of the so-called Rattachisme which a port of Belgium (or at least Wallonia ) went on for France. However, his party melted together more and more. When he had suffered himself on 23 August 1833 in a prosecution against the Minister Lebeau a complete defeat, but especially since he could 1839 not to prevent the ratification of a peace treaty with the Netherlands and the assignment of Luxembourg in the House of Representatives, he withdrew more and more back from active politics, resigned as a council and as Chief Executive of the lawyer class and limited his activity to the exercise of his profession as a lawyer.