Victor de Laveleye

Victor de Laveleye
de Laveleye seated left, London 1944
Born
Victor Auguste de Laveleye

(1894-11-05)5 November 1894
Brussels, Belgium
Died14 December 1945(1945-12-14) (aged 51)
Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Occupationpolitician

Victor Auguste de Laveleye (6 November 1894 – 14 December 1945) was a Belgian liberal politician and minister.[1] He also served as announcer on Radio Belgique during World War II.

De Laveleye was a doctor in law, and was municipality Council member of Sint-Gillis, President of the Liberal Party (1936–1937)[2] and Liberal member of parliament (1939–1945) for the district Brussels. De Laveleye was minister of justice (1937) and of public education (1944–1945). During World War II he was newsreader for Radio Belgique, a BBC station transmitted to occupied Belgium.

  1. ^ Les méconnus de Londres: journal de guerre d'une Belge, 1940–1945 – Volume 1 – p. 189 Tinou Dutry-Soinne – 2006 "Il fut membre du Comité olympique belge et président de l'association belge du hockey. Petit-neveu d'Emile, neveu du baron Edouard de Laveleye. Il participa, pour la Belgique, à l'élaboration de la charte des Nations Unies à San Francisco ..."
  2. ^ "Presidents of the Belgian liberal party". Liberaal Archief (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2010.