Count René Boël (1899-1990) was a
Belgian industrialist and Director of the ''
Usine Gustave Boël
The SA Usine Boel (''Usines Gustave Boël'', or ''UGB'') was a steel works located in La Louvière, Belgium, founded in 1851 as ''Fonderies et Laminoirs Ernest Boucquéau''. From 1880 the works became the property of Gustave Boël.
After a faile ...
''. He was married to
Yvonne Solvay
Yvonne is a female given name. It is the feminine form of Yvon, which is derived from the French name Yves and Yvette. It is from the French word ''iv'', meaning "yew" (or tree). Since yew wood was used for bows, Ivo may have been an occupation ...
(1896-1930), granddaughter of
Ernest Solvay. They have two sons
Yves Boël and
Pol Boël and one daughter
Antoinette Boël (1925-1982).
Career
After his marriage, he became director at
UCB and at
Solvay. During his career he advised the Belgian government in exile during
World War II, and founded the
Museum of Modern Art in
Brussels. He was the first President of the
Belgian-American Association
Belgian Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to people from Belgium who immigrated to the United States. While the first natives of the then-Southern Netherlands arrived in America in the 17th century, the majority of Belgian immi ...
, and chaired, between 1950 and 1981, the
European League for Economic Cooperation The European League for Economic Cooperation or ELEC (french: Ligue Européenne de Coopération Économique, LECE) is an independent political advocacy group which advocates for closer European integration.
Established in 1946, ELEC was one of the ...
,
and was heavily involved in the
European Movement.
Sources
The Diffusion of US Management Models and the Role of the University: the Case of Belgium (1945-1970)- Kenneth Bertrams, July 2001
* Kenneth Bertrams, Converting Academic Expertize into Industrial Innovation: University-based Research at Solvay and Gevaert, 1900–1970, Enterprise and Society
References
External links
1899 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Belgian businesspeople
Walloon people
Eurofederalism
History of the European Union
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