Events of the year 1932 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

* Albert I

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Jules Renkin Jules Laurent Jean Louis Renkin (3 December 1862 – 15 July 1934) was a Belgium, Belgian politician. He served as the minister of colonies for the Belgian Congo from 30 October 1908 to 21 November 1918. Born in Ixelles, Renkin studied and p ...

(to 22 October) *

Charles de Broqueville Charles Marie Pierre Albert, 1st Count de Broqueville (4 December 1860 – 5 September 1940) was the prime minister of Belgium, serving during World War I. Before 1914 Charles de Broqueville was born into an old noble family with its roots in F ...

(from 22 October)

Events

* 27 June to 10 September – Ten weeks of strikes in the

Borinage The Borinage () is an area in the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium. The name derives from the coal mines of the region, ''bores'' meaning mineshafts. In French the inhabitants of the Borinage are called Borains. The provincial capital ...

to protest against economic conditions. * 9 October – Municipal elections * 18 October –

offers his resignation as prime minister * 27 November –

Legislative election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

returns Catholic Party majority * 4 December – Provincial elections

Publications

Franz Hellens Franz Hellens, born Frédéric van Ermengem (8 September 1881, in Brussels – 20 January 1972, in Brussels) was a prolific Belgian novelist, poet and critic. Although of Flemish descent, he wrote entirely in French, and lived in Paris from 1947 t ...

, ''Poésie de la veille et du lendemain'' *

Hergé Georges Prosper Remi (; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé (; ), from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials ''RG'', was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating ''The Adventures of Tintin'', ...

, '' Tintin en Amérique'' (serialised 1931–1932) published as an album

Art and architecture

;Paintings *

René Magritte René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and bounda ...

, ''The Universe Unmasked'' ;Cinema * '' La Nuit du Carrefour'' (France),

Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ...

's adaptation of

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...

's '' La Nuit du carrefour'' (1931)

Business

Lotus Bakeries Lotus Bakeries is a Belgian biscuit company, founded in 1932, with its headquarters in Lembeke, Kaprijke, Belgium. Lotus is known for its speculoos biscuits and biscuit-based products, branded as Lotus Biscoff in the United States, United Kingd ...

established

Births

* 17 January –

Roger Lallemand Roger Lallemand (; 17 January 1932 – 20 October 2016) was a Walloon lawyer, socialist politician, and president of the Belgian Senate. Education He graduated as a licentiate in Romance philology and obtained a doctorate in law at the Universi ...

, politician (died 2016) * 11 March –

Piet Van Brabant Piet Van Brabant (Schaerbeek, 11 March 1932 – Jette, 6 July 2006) was a Belgian journalist, editor of the journal ''Het Laatste Nieuws'', chief editor of the weekly ''Het Volksbelang'', and general secretary of the Liberaal Vlaams Verbond The Li ...

, journalist (died 2006) * 18 March –

Arthur Luysterman Arthur Luysterman (born 18 March 1932) is a Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop. He served as the twenty-ninth Bishop of Ghent between 1991 and 2003. Life Arthur Luysterman was born in Meerbeke, a village in the intensively developed countryside betw ...

, bishop of Ghent * 23 March –

Bettina Le Beau Bettina Le Beau (23 March 1932 – 8 September 2015), also known as Bettine Le Beau, was a Belgian actress known for her film, radio and television appearances in the UK. Life During the Second World War, Le Beau was separated from her pare ...

, actress (died 2015) * 31 March – Jean-Pierre Grafé, politician (died 2019) * 29 June –

Evrard Godefroid Evrard Godefroid (29 June 1932 – 31 December 2013) was a Belgian cyclist. He competed in the time trial and sprint events at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were ...

, cyclist (died 2013) * 4 July –

Aurèle Vandendriessche Aurèle Vandendriessche (born 4 July 1932) is a retired Belgian marathon runner, who won silver medals at the 1962 and 1966 European Championships. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics with the best result of seventh place in 1964. Twic ...

, marathon runner * 20 August –

Claudine Wallet Claudine Wallet (born 20 August 1932) is a Belgian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XV ...

, Olympic fencer * 4 October –

Étienne Davignon Étienne, Count Davignon (born 4 October 1932 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Belgian politician, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission. Career After receiving a Doctorate of Law from the Catholic University of Louvain, ...

, politician * 6 November –

François Englert François, Baron Englert (; born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate. Englert is professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is a member of the Service de Physique Thé ...

, theoretical physicist * 23 November –

Solange Berry The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the third edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (NTS), the contest, originally known as the (English: Grand Prix of the Euro ...

, singer * 16 December – Karel Oomen, wrestler * 20 December –

Carla Walschap Carla Walschap (born 20 December 1932) is a Belgian writer and a teacher. She is a daughter of the writer Gerard Walschap Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (Londerzeel-St. Jozef, 9 July 1898 – Antwerp, 25 October 1989), was a Belgian w ...

, writer and teacher

Deaths

* 17 February –

Fredegand Cogels Baron Fredegandus (Fredegand) Patricius Josephus Maria Cogels (14 April 1850 – 17 February 1932) was a Belgian politician and a member of the Meeting party. He was governor of the province of Antwerp from 16 December 1900 until 28 May 1907 ...

(born 1850), politician * 10 April –

Jean-François Heymans Jean-François Heymans, also Jan Frans Heymans (25 December 1859, Gooik – 10 April 1932, Middelkerke) was a Belgian pharmacologist and physiologist. He was the father of physiologist Corneille Heymans, Corneille Jean François Heymans. He receiv ...

(born 1859), pharmacologist * 19 April –

Edgard Colle Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; fir ...

(born 1897), chess master * 24 June – Guy Reyntiens (born 1880), Olympic equestrian * 25 July –

Cyriel Buysse Cyriel may refer to: *Cyriel Barbary (1899–2004), the last known Belgian veteran of the First World War *Cyriel Buysse (1859–1932), Flemish naturalist author and playwright *Cyriel Coupe (1918–1998) (pseudonym Anton van Wilderode), Belgian pr ...

(born 1859), playwright * 20 August – Émile Mathieu (born 1844), composer * 27 August –

Ursmer Berlière Ursmer Berlière, born Alfred Berlière (1861–1932) was a monk of Maredsous Abbey and a monastic historian whose bibliography ran to 360 publications.Philibert Schmitz, "Berlière, Alfred", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 30(Brussels, 1 ...

(born 1861), monastic historian * 29 September –

Émile van Ermengem Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem (1851–1932) was a Belgian bacteriologist who, in 1895, isolated ''Clostridium botulinum'', the bacterium that causes botulism, from a piece of ham that had poisoned thirty-four people. Reprinted in Life Van Erm ...

(born 1851), bacteriologist * 7 October –

Eugène Broerman Eugène Broerman (12 July 1861 – 7 October 1932) was a Belgian painter. Life He trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. His house, Antoine Delporteplein 2, Saint-Gilles, has been a protected historical monument since ...

(born 1861), painter * 28 October –

Joseph Dejardin Joseph Dejardin (21 March 1873 – 28 October 1932) was a Belgian trade unionist and politician. Born in Grivegnée, Dejardin worked at a coal mine from the age of eleven. He joined the Union of Mineworkers of Belgium and eventually rose to b ...

(born 1873), trade unionist

References

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