Metadata: Robert Rothschild papers
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Postal address:
- Campus du Solbosch AX1.222, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 / Franklin Rooseveltlaan 50, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 02/650.35.66
- Email:
- archives@ulb.ac.be
- Reference number:
- ArUnLib-Brussels-168PP
- Title:
- Robert Rothschild papers
- Title (official language):
- Papiers Robert Rothschild
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rothschild, Robert
- Date(s):
- 1950/1973
- Extent:
- 2 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents related to Rothschild’s diplomatic career (1950-1973), the Belgian Congo, NATO, the petrol crisis of 1973, transatlantic relations and the Cold War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Robert Rothschild (1911-1978) was a Belgian diplomat of German-Jewish origin. During the Second World War he was arrested but released and fled into exile. He reached London from where the exiled government sent him to the diplomatic station in Lisbon until 1944, when he was sent to China. In 1950 he left Shanghai for Washington. He was appointed chief of the cabinet of Paul-Henri Spaak, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in 1954. He participated in the redaction of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 and in the establishment of the European Economic Community in 1958. He was then sent to the Belgian Congo as deputy to the Governor. He arrived shortly before Patrice Lumumba came to power. Later, Rothschild was sent to Switzerland where he became the president of the executive committee of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; afterwards he was appointed to diplomatic posts in Paris and London, where he lived until his death in 1978. (Papiers Robert Rothschild (BE / Archives de l’ULB / 168PP))
- Access points: locations:
- Belgian Congo
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rothschild, Robert
- Subject terms:
- Cold War
- Jewish political activity
- Trade and commerce
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- Finding aids:
- There is a summary inventory.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
