The following is a list of those who have served as foreign ministers of
Belgium.
1800s
1900s
2000s
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from: 1831 till: 1831 color:liberal text:"Sylvain Van de Weyer
Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer (19 January 1802 – 23 May 1874) was a Belgian politician who served as the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom, and briefly, as the prime minister of Belgium, ...
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from: 1831 till: 1831 color:liberal text:" Joseph Lebeau" fontsize:10
from: 1831 till: 1831 color:catholic text:" Felix de Muelenaere" fontsize:10
from: 1831 till: 1834 color:liberal text:"Albert Goblet d'Alviella
Albert Joseph, Count Goblet d'Alviella (26 May 1790 – 5 May 1873) was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the Belgian Revolution, he became a politician and served as the prime minister of Belgium.
Career
B ...
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from: 1834 till: 1836 color:catholic text:" Felix de Muelenaere" fontsize:10
from: 1836 till: 1840 color:catholic text:" Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt" fontsize:10
from: 1840 till: 1841 color:liberal text:" Joseph Lebeau" fontsize:10
from: 1841 till: 1843 color:catholic text:"Camille de Briey
Camille de Briey (27 June 1800 - 3 June 1877) was a Belgium, Belgian industrialist, politician and diplomat.
Early life
Camille was born in Ruette, Virton, Belgium on 27 June 1799 to Louis Briey and Anne de Pouilly. He received his secondary educ ...
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from: 1843 till: 1845 color:catholic text:" Felix de Muelenaere" fontsize:10
from: 1845 till: 1847 color:catholic text:"Adolphe Dechamps
Adolphe Deschamps (; also Dechamps ; 17 June 1807 – 19 July 1875) was a Belgian statesman and publisher, the brother of Cardinal Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps.
He entered public life about 1830 and soon became popular through his contribution ...
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from: 1847 till: 1852 color:liberal text:"Constant d'Hoffschmidt
Constant Ernest d'Hoffschmidt de Resteigne (1804–1873) was a Belgian businessman, mining engineer and Liberal politician who from 1847 to 1852 served as his country's foreign minister.
Life
D'Hoffschmidt was born at Recogne on 7 March 1804, the ...
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from: 1852 till: 1855 color:liberal text:"Henri de Brouckère
Jonkheer Henri Ghislain Joseph Marie Hyacinthe de Brouckère (25 January 1801 – 25 January 1891) was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician. Born in Bruges, he was a magistrate, and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. H ...
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from: 1855 till: 1857 color:catholic text:"Charles Vilain XIIII
Viscount Charles Ghislain Guillaume Vilain XIIII (15 May 1803 – 16 November 1878) was a Belgian politician, serving as governor of East Flanders, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium.
Early ...
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from: 1857 till: 1861 color:liberal text:"Adolphe de Vrière
''Adolphe'' is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit ...
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from: 1861 till: 1868 color:liberal text:" Charles Rogier" fontsize:10
from: 1868 till: 1870 color:liberal text:"Jules Vander Stichelen
Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of:
People with the name
* Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer
*Jules Abadie (1876–19 ...
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from: 1870 till: 1871 color:catholic text:"Jules Joseph d'Anethan
Jules Joseph, Baron d'Anethan (23 April 1803 – 8 October 1888) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician.
After serving as minister for Justice and Religion, D'Anethan was named the prime minister of Belgium and minister of Foreign Affairs by K ...
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from: 1871 till: 1878 color:catholic text:" Guillaume d'Aspremont Lynden" fontsize:10
from: 1878 till: 1884 color:liberal text:" Walthère Frère-Orban" fontsize:10
from: 1884 till: 1884 color:catholic text:"Alphonse de Moreau Alphonse may refer to:
* Alphonse (given name)
* Alphonse (surname)
* Alphonse Atoll, one of two atolls in the Seychelles' Alphonse Group
See also
* Alphons
*Alfonso (disambiguation) Alfonso (and variants Alphonso, Afonso, Alphons, and Alphonse ...
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from: 1884 till: 1892 color:catholic text:"Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
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from: 1892 till: 1895 color:catholic text:"Henri de Merode-Westerloo
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry.
People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Mont ...
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from: 1895 till: 1896 color:catholic text:" Jules de Burlet" fontsize:10
from: 1896 till: 1907 color:catholic text:" Paul de Favereau" fontsize:10
from: 1907 till: 1916 color:catholic text:" Julien Davignon" fontsize:10
from: 1916 till: 1917 color:catholic text:"Eugène Beyens
Beyens de Grambais is a Dutch-Belgian family of nobility, with a branch settling in the Southern Netherlands in the early 17th century.
A Brabant family
The Beyens family originates in the North Brabant in the Netherlands.
* I. Godefroid Beye ...
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from: 1917 till: 1918 color:catholic text:" Charles de Broqueville" fontsize:10
from: 1918 till: 1920 color:liberal text:" Paul Hymans" fontsize:10
from: 1920 till: 1924 color:catholic text:" Henri Jaspar" fontsize:10
from: 1924 till: 1925 color:liberal text:" Paul Hymans" fontsize:10
from: 1925 till: 1927 color:socialist text:" Emile Vandervelde" fontsize:10
from: 1927 till: 1934 color:liberal text:" Paul Hymans" fontsize:10
from: 1934 till: 1934 color:catholic text:" Henri Jaspar" fontsize:10
from: 1934 till: 1935 color:liberal text:" Paul Hymans" fontsize:10
from: 1935 till: 1936 color:catholic text:" Paul van Zeeland" fontsize:10
from: 1936 till: 1939 color:socialist text:" Paul-Henri Spaak" fontsize:10
from: 1939 till: 1939 color:socialist text:" Eugène Soudan" fontsize:10
from: 1939 till: 1940 color:catholic text:" Hubert Pierlot" fontsize:10
from: 1940 till: 1949 color:socialist text:" Paul-Henri Spaak" fontsize:10
from: 1949 till: 1954 color:catholic text:" Paul van Zeeland" fontsize:10
from: 1954 till: 1958 color:socialist text:" Paul-Henri Spaak" fontsize:10
from: 1958 till: 1961 color:catholic text:" Pierre Wigny" fontsize:10
from: 1961 till: 1966 color:socialist text:" Paul-Henri Spaak" fontsize:10
from: 1966 till: 1973 color:catholic text:" Pierre Harmel" fontsize:10
from: 1973 till: 1977 color:catholic text:"Renaat Van Elslande
Renaat Antoon Joseph Van Elslande (born in Boekhoute on 21 January 1916; died in Uccle on 21 December 2000) was a Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams politician who had been culture minister and foreign minister.
Honours
* War cross
* Minister of ...
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from: 1977 till: 1980 color:socialist text:"Henri Simonet
Henri François Simonet (10 May 1931 – 15 February 1996) was a Belgian politician.
Born in Brussels, Henri Simonet studied law and economics at the ULB and then went to Columbia University as CRB Graduate Fellow. Simonet began his political ...
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from: 1980 till: 1981 color:catholic text:" Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb" fontsize:10
from: 1981 till: 1989 color:catholic text:" Leo Tindemans" fontsize:10
from: 1989 till: 1992 color:catholic text:" Mark Eyskens" fontsize:10
from: 1992 till: 1994 color:socialist text:" Willy Claes" fontsize:10
from: 1994 till: 1995 color:socialist text:" Frank Vandenbroucke" fontsize:10
from: 1995 till: 1999 color:socialist text:"Eric Derycke
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ai ...
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from: 1999 till: 2004 color:liberal text:" Louis Michel" fontsize:10
from: 2004 till: 2009 color:liberal text:" Karel De Gucht" fontsize:10
from: 2009 till: 2009 color:catholic text:"Yves Leterme
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme (; born 6 October 1960 in Wervik) is a Belgian politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He was the prime minister of Belgium, from November 2009 to December 2011.
Leterme was the ...
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from: 2009 till: 2011 color:catholic text:" Steven Vanackere" fontsize:10
from: 2011 till: 2019 color:liberal text:" Didier Reynders" fontsize:10
from: 2019 till: 2020 color:liberal text:" Philippe Goffin" fontsize:10
from: 2020 till: 2022 color:liberal text:" Sophie Wilmès" fontsize:10
from: 2022 till: 2022 color:liberal_acting text:" Alexander De Croo" fontsize:10
from: 2022 till: 2022 color:liberal text:" Hadja Lahbib" fontsize:10
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