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The prime minister of Belgium (Dutch: Eerste minister van België; French: Premier ministre de Belgique; German: Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government in the Kingdom of Belgium. Although leaders of Government (French: Chefs de Cabinet) had been appointed since the independence of the ...
Five Social Democrats have served as prime minister, either as a member of the BWP-POB, the BSP-PSB, or the PS. Paul-Henri Spaak (15 May 1938 – 22 February 1939, 13 March – 31 March 1946, 20 March 1947 – 11 August 1949) Achille Van Acker (12 February 1945 – 13 March 1946, 31 March – 3 August 1946, 23 April 1954 – 26 June 1958)
Prime Minister Image Assumed office Left office Time in office (term) Time in office (total) 1 Charles Rogier: 12 August 1847 31 October 1852 5 years, 80 days: 15 years, 135 days: 9 November 1857 3 January 1868 10 years, 55 days 2 Wilfried Martens: 3 April 1979 31 March 1981 1 year, 362 days: 12 years, 78 days: 17 December 1981 7 March 1992
Hubert Marie Eugène Pierlot (French pronunciation: [ybɛʁ maʁi øʒɛn pjɛʁlo], 23 December 1883 – 13 December 1963) was a Belgian politician and Prime Minister of Belgium, serving between 1939 and 1945. Pierlot, a lawyer and jurist, served in World War I before entering politics in the 1920s.
The prime minister of Belgium (Dutch: Eerste minister van België; French: Premier ministre de Belgique; German: Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government of Belgium, and the most powerful person in Belgian politics.
In February 1936 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, serving first under Van Zeeland and then under his uncle, Paul-Émile Janson. From May 1938 to February 1939 he was Prime Minister for the first time. In 1938, he allowed Herman Van Breda to smuggle the legacy of Edmund Husserl out of Nazi Germany to Belgium through the Belgian Embassy in ...
Alois Eliáš, Prime minister (1939–1942) Jaroslav Krejčí, Prime minister (1941–1945) Richard Bienert, Prime minister (1945) First Slovak Republic, Nazi client state; Prime ministers (complete list) – Jozef Tiso, Prime Minister (1939) Vojtech Tuka, Prime Minister (1939–1944) Štefan Tiso, Prime Minister (1944–1945) Czechoslovakia ...
Hubert Pierlot was the prime minister of Belgium from 1939 until 1945. Pierlot became the leader of the government during the Phoney War until the German invasion. Pierlot fled to Britain where he led the Belgian government in exile and presided over the formation of the Free Belgian forces.