Émile Servais

Émile Servais (26 September 1847 – 24 October 1928) was a Luxembourgian left liberal politician. He was an engineer by profession.

On 9 January 1919, a company of the Luxembourgian army revolted against the Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde, and declared itself to be the army of a new socialist republic. The seventy-two-year-old Servais was chosen by an eight-member 'Committee for Public Safety' as the new head of the revolutionary government, under the title of 'Chairman'.President of the Chamber of Deputies François Altwies requested that French soldiers intervene, and, eager to end what they considered to be a pro-Belgian uprising, France ended the rebellion and deposed Servais.

He was the son of former Prime Minister Emmanuel Servais. In 1877, Émile was awarded the Order of the Oak Crown.

He was the son of Emmanuel Servais (1811-1890). After training as an engineer, from 1863 to 1868 at the École des arts et manufactures et des mines in Liège, he was director of the foundry in Eschweiler-Aue from 1869 to 1872. After this he was director of the foundry of Colmar from 1873 to 1877, director of the Hollerich foundry in 1877 and of the Weilerbach foundry in 1878. In 1877 he received the Order of the Oak Crown.

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