Metadata: Alexandre Delmer papers
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Study Centre for the History of Contemporary Europe
- Holding institution (official language):
- Centre d’Étude de l’Histoire de l’Europe contemporaine
- Postal address:
- Service des Archives de l’Université Catholique de Louvain, Place Montesquieu 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)10 47 48 84
- Web address:
- http://www.uclouvain.be/cehec.html
- Reference number:
- SCHConEu-Louvain-la-N-Alexandre Delmer
- Title:
- Alexandre Delmer papers
- Title (official language):
- Papiers d’Alexandre Delmer
- Creator/accumulator:
- Delmer, Alexandre
- Date(s):
- 1924/1967
- Extent:
- 1,072 files
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a file concerning the elimination of Jews from public functions (see file no. 883).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Alexandre Delmer (1879-1974) was secretary-general at the Ministry of Public Works (1927-1945). He is considered to be the “father of the Albert Canal”. During the Occupation, Delmer was the head of the committee of Secretaries-General. (J. Verhelst & E. Van Impe, “Alexandre Delmer (1879-1974)”, in ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (accessible on http://www.odis.be); Y.-W. Delzenne & J. Houyoux (dir.), Le nouveau dictionnaire des belges, Brussel, Le Cri, 1998, vol. 1, p. 158.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Delmer, Alexandre
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Access, restrictions:
- Researchers need to fill in a request for consultation – see the form on http://www.uclouvain.be/97024.html.
- Finding aids:
- N. Englebert & N. Tordeurs, Inventaire des papiers d’Alexandre Delmer (1924-1967), Louvain-la-Neuve, UCL.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
