Paul de Smet de Naeyer
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Paul de Smet de Naeyer | |
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Prime Minister of Belgium | |
In office 5 August 1899 – 2 May 1907 | |
Monarch | Leopold II |
Preceded by | Jules Vandenpeereboom |
Succeeded by | Jules de Trooz |
In office 25 February 1896 – 24 January 1899 | |
Monarch | Leopold II |
Preceded by | Jules de Burlet |
Succeeded by | Jules Vandenpeereboom |
Personal details | |
Born | Ghent, Belgium | 13 May 1843
Died | 9 September 1913 Brussels, Belgium | (aged 70)
Political party | Catholic Party |
Paul Joseph, Count de Smet de Naeyer (13 May 1843 – 9 September 1913) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician.
Born in Ghent, son of a cotton industrialist, he was himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines.
He represented Ghent and
prime minister of Belgium
from 1896 to 1899, and again from 1899 to 1907.
Honours
- National
- Belgium:
- 1899: Minister of State, by Royal Decree.
- 1900: Created Count de Smet de Naeyer, by Royal Decree.
- Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold[1]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the African Star[1]
- Foreign
- France: Knight Grand Cross in the Legion of Honour[1]
- Japan: Knight Grand Cross in the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun[1]
- Greece: Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Redeemer[1]
- Order of Pius IX[1]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the White Eagle[1]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bavarian Crown[1]
- Prussia: Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Red Eagle[1]
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