Paul Hymans
Paul Hymans (March 23, 1865 – March 8, 1941), was a Belgian politician associated with the Parti Libéral. He was the first President of the short-lived League of Nations, and served again as its president in 1932-33.
Hymans was born in Ixelles/Elsene, Belgium and became Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1918 to 1920 (and again from 1927 to 1935), minister of justice from 1926 to 1927, and member of the council of ministers from 1935 to 1936.
He represented Belgium at the 1919-1920 peace conference.
He helped form the customs union of Belgium and Luxembourg in 1921 and played a leading part in negotiating the Dawes Plan in 1924.
He was the author of the book His Pages liberales (Liberal Notes) published in 1936.
He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes in Brussels. Paul Hymans is interred in the Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels.
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