Paul Hymans
Paul Hymans · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Belgian foreign minister and first President of the Assembly of the League of Nations (1920)
23 mars 1865, Ixelles (Bruxelles), Belgique — 8 mars 1941, Nice, France
Bruxelles, Paris, Genève
Paul Hymans is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Belgian foreign minister and first President of the Assembly of the League of Nations (1920)
Origins and early life
Paul Hymans was born on 23 March 1865 in Ixelles, Brussels.
Work and career
His paternal grandfather was a Jewish doctor of Dordrecht — the Encyclopaedia Judaica and the European Jewish archives record the line through his father, the writer and parliamentarian Louis Hymans, though the sources do not name the grandfather individually, and this fiche says so; Paul himself was a Protestant and belongs here by that documented grandparent. A lawyer, professor and leader of the Belgian Liberal Party, he became foreign minister in the last year of the First World War and defended Belgium's claims at the Paris Peace Conference.
In 1920 the new League of Nations gathered for its first Assembly in Geneva and elected him its first President, and he presided over the Assembly again in 1932-33. Across four spells as foreign minister between 1918 and 1935 he was one of the builders of the interwar international order. He died in Nice on 8 March 1941, in exile after the German invasion of his country.
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Belgian foreign minister and first President of the Assembly of the League of Nations (1920)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hymans
