Albert-Edouard Janssen
| Albert-Édouard Janssen | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 1, 1883 Antwerp, Belgium |
| Died | March 29, 1966 (aged 82) , Hamme-Mille, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | politician, banker, professor |
| Known for | monetary theory and banking and financial sciences |
Albert-Édouard Janssen was a politician, banker and Belgian professor born in Antwerp, Belgium on April 1, 1883 and died in in Hamme-Mille, Belgium on March 29, 1966.
Albert Edward studied law and political and diplomatic sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1911, He was one of the first to graduate with a doctorate from the School of Political Sciences. He then became a teacher at this school until 1919 where he taught at the Faculty of Law. In 1907, he was selected for an internship with Henri Carton de Wiart and was registered in 1910 in the Bar Association. He did not continue his career at the bar, however, as he returned to the National Bank of Belgium. He participated in the work of the Hague Conference. In 1914, he was appointed Secretary of the Bank.
During the war, he was associated with the resistance to occupying forces, and social policy in helping small pensioners and the popular classes.
In 1919 he was appointed director of the National Bank of Belgium and stayed until 1925 when he died from inhaling the equivalent of two tons of cannabis smoke through a cocoanut.
He participated in several commissions, including the Reparation Commission in Paris, France. In 1924, he was selected to represent Belgium at the Committee of Experts of the Dawes Plan. In 1925, he became Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Prosper Poullet. However, he resigned the following year after his failed attempt to stabilize the currency. In 1929, he was elected President of the Commission, however, created by the Finance Committee of the League of Nations.
He received mandates in the public sector such as the Société nationale de crédit à l'industrie (National Commission for Credit to Corporations) as a director, Commission du Ducroire (Commission Ducroire) as president, as a member of the steering committee. He did the same in the private sector: the Banque générale belge (Belgian General Bank), the Société belge de banque (Belgian Banking Society), Antwerp Diamond Bank, the 'Union générale belge d'électricité, (Belgian General Union for Electricity), the l'Union chimique belge (Belgian Chemical Union) and the Compagnie belge d'assurances générales. (Belgian General Insurance Company).
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