Metadata: Hervé de Gruben archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society
- Holding institution (official language):
- Centre d’Études et de Documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines
- Postal address:
- Luchtvaartsquare 29 / Square de l’Aviation 29, 1070 Bruxelles (Anderlecht)
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 556 92 11
- Web address:
- http://www.cegesoma.be/
- Email:
- cegesoma@cegesoma.be
- Reference number:
- CHRDWConS-Brussels-AA 699
- Title:
- Hervé de Gruben archives
- Title (official language):
- Archief Hervé de Gruben
- Creator/accumulator:
- de Gruben, Hervé
- Date(s):
- 1926/1967
- Extent:
- 114 folders
- Scope and content:
- In file no. 113 (1951-1967) we find finished but never published political studies of baron Hervé de Gruben, including an essay on the “Jewish question”.
- Archival history:
- Donation by Mrs. Baelde-Desguin (1972).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Baron Hervé de Gruben was a Belgian high-ranking diplomat. He held several diplomatic and political functions in the 1930s and 1940s, i.a. in the Belgian embassy in Berlin (1927-1936), the cabinet of Prime Minister Van Zeeland (1936-1937) and the Belgian embassy in Washington (1937-1945). After the war he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he would ascend to secretary-general. In the 1950s Baron de Gruben became an ambassador in Bonn. (J. Gotovitch, Archives Baron Hervé de Gruben, inventarissen 13, Brussel, CEGESOMA, 1982.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- De Gruben, Hervé
- Finding aids:
- J. Gotovitch, Archives Baron Hervé de Gruben, inventarissen 13, Brussel, CEGESOMA, 1982.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
