This is a list of members of the Council of State of Luxembourg . The Council of State has twenty-two members, although this has not always been the case. In total, 181 appointments have been made to the Council of State, including 162 different people, as several have served more than once.
Name | Start | End | Notes |
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Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine | 28 November 1857 | 11 February 1871 | President 1857–68 |
Jean-Jacques Willmar | 28 November 1857 | 26 November 1866 | |
Jean Ulveling (1st time) | 28 November 1857 | 12 November 1858 | |
Vendelin Jurion | 28 November 1857 | 10 February 1892 | President 1871–72 |
Emmanuel Servais (1st time) | 28 November 1857 | 3 December 1867 | |
Édouard Thilges (1st time) | 28 November 1857 | 15 July 1859 | |
Charles-Gérard Eyschen | 28 November 1857 | 28 September 1859 | |
Ferdinand Pescatore | 28 November 1857 | 25 December 1862 | |
François Joseph Wirz | 28 November 1857 | 18 January 1863 | |
Guillaume d'Ansembourg | 28 November 1857 | 10 February 1882 | |
Charles-Frédéric Mersch-Faber | 28 November 1857 | 25 August 1888 | |
François-Xavier Wurth-Paquet | 6 October 1858 | 4 February 1885 | President 1870–71 |
Antoine Lefort | 10 August 1860 | 3 March 1889 | |
Charles-Mathias Simons | 28 September 1860 | 5 October 1874 | President 1869–70 |
Édouard Thilges (2nd time) | 28 September 1860 | 3 December 1867 | |
Mathias Wellenstein | 29 December 1860 | 1 December 1870 | |
Pierre Joseph Augustin | 13 February 1863 | 25 September 1872 | |
Michel Jonas | 5 April 1866 | 16 June 1884 | |
Chrétien Mersch | 5 April 1866 | 24 January 1873 | |
Jean Ulveling (2nd time) | 14 December 1866 | 29 October 1877 | |
Victor de Tornaco | 3 December 1867 | 20 June 1872 | |
Charles Munchen | 14 January 1868 | 13 August 1881 | |
Bernard-Hubert Neuman | 16 March 1868 | 27 September 1891 | |
Édouard Thilges (3rd time) | 18 December 1870 | 20 February 1885 | President 1872–74 |
Lucien Rischard | 15 March 1871 | 18 December 1900 | |
Emmanuel Servais (2nd time) | 27 December 1874 | 17 June 1890 | President 1874–87 |
Henri Vannérus | 27 December 1874 | 17 May 1921 | President 1888–89 and 1895–1914 |
Georges Ulveling | 29 October 1877 | 30 September 1881 | |
Nicolas Salentiny | 6 August 1878 | 25 November 1898 | |
Jean-Baptiste Klein (1st time) | 1 March 1882 | 14 November 1883 | |
Jules Chromé | 9 April 1884 | 14 January 1899 | |
Victor de Roebé | 22 July 1885 | 3 January 1889 | |
Jean-Pierre Toutsch | 22 July 1885 | 30 June 1887 | |
Joseph Schaack | 22 July 1885 | 25 November 1894 | |
Victor Thorn (1st time) | 22 July 1885 | 27 September 1888 | |
Charles Rischard (1st time) | 15 February 1888 | 23 June 1896 | |
Édouard Thilges (4th time) | 10 October 1888 | 9 July 1904 | President 1889–95 |
Jean-Baptiste Klein (2nd time) | 27 November 1889 | 2 August 1894 | |
Alexandre de Colnet d'Huart | 27 November 1889 | 12 June 1905 | |
Émile Faber | 2 May 1892 | 14 March 1927 | |
Joseph Rischard | 2 May 1892 | 3 March 1915 | |
Victor Thorn (2nd time) | 26 October 1892 | 3 March 1915 | President 1914–15 |
Jean Franck | 30 January 1895 | 9 May 1896 | |
Émile Lefort | 30 January 1895 | 12 May 1902 | |
Henri Neumann | 9 August 1896 | 9 March 1910 | |
Émile Schlesser | 20 November 1896 | 12 November 1901 | |
Hereditary Grand Duke William | 25 December 1897 | 4 April 1902 | |
Joseph Steichen | 31 December 1898 | 23 March 1938 | President 1931–32 |
Ernest Arendt | 11 January 1902 | 11 February 1931 | |
Paul Ulveling | 30 September 1902 | 5 March 1924 | |
Mathias Glaesener | 30 September 1902 | 22 October 1924 | |
Charles Rischard (2nd time) | 26 October 1905 | 12 June 1914 | |
Ernest Hamélius | 7 December 1908 | 16 November 1945 | President 1932–45 |
Jules Fischer | 21 February 1909 | 31 December 1914 | |
Henri Kirpach | 9 January 1910 | 26 April 1911 | |
Victor Thorn (3rd time) | 28 December 1914 | 3 March 1915 | |
Charles de Waha | 3 March 1915 | 24 November 1916 | |
Pierre Braun | 3 March 1915 | 16 November 1945 | |
Joseph Brincour | 3 March 1915 | 29 December 1917 | |
Léon Kauffman (1st time) | 3 March 1915 | 24 February 1916 | |
Joseph Thilges | 3 March 1915 | 15 December 1916 | |
Auguste Ulveling | 3 March 1915 | 26 August 1917 | |
Mathias Mongenast | 6 November 1915 | 10 January 1926 | President 1916–17 |
Victor Thorn (4th time) | 6 November 1915 | 24 February 1916 | President 1915–16 |
Victor Thorn (5th time) | 19 June 1917 | 15 September 1930 | President 1917–30 |
Ernest Leclère | 19 June 1917 | 27 May 1938 | |
Léon Kauffman (2nd time) | 28 September 1918 | 16 November 1945 | |
Léon Moutrier | 28 September 1918 | 21 December 1936 | |
Antoine Lefort | 28 September 1918 | 19 March 1928 | |
Joseph Faber | 28 September 1918 | 10 October 1933 | |
Guillaume Leidenbach | 14 April 1923 | 8 May 1943 | |
Jean-Baptiste Sax | 3 June 1924 | 16 November 1945 | |
Jacques Delahaye (1st time) | 8 November 1926 | 16 November 1945 | |
Georges Faber | 18 July 1929 | 16 August 1936 | |
François Altwies | 6 March 1933 | 6 July 1936 | |
Robert Brasseur | 6 March 1933 | 15 February 1934 | |
Prince Felix (1st time) | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Norbert Dumont | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Auguste Liesch (1st time) | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Léon Schaack | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Nicolas Kerschen | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Jean Rettel | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Adolphe Kunnen | 23 January 1937 | 16 November 1945 | |
Prince Felix (2nd time) | 14 December 1945 | 25 April 1951 | |
Léon Kauffman (3rd time) | 14 December 1945 | 14 February 1952 | President, 1945–52 |
Jacques Delahaye (2nd time) | 14 December 1945 | 25 March 1947 | |
Auguste Liesch (2nd time) | 14 December 1945 | 13 March 1949 | |
Joseph Thorn | 14 December 1945 | 10 November 1953 | |
Albert Wagner | 14 December 1945 | 30 July 1958 | |
Pierre Frieden | 14 December 1945 | 15 July 1948 | |
Robert Als | 14 December 1945 | 25 March 1947 | |
Félix Welter | 14 December 1945 | 25 April 1973 | President, 1952–69 |
Michel Rasquin | 14 December 1945 | 9 July 1948 | |
Alfred Loesch | 14 December 1945 | 31 December 1958 | |
Maurice Sevenig | 14 December 1945 | 26 June 1975 | President, 1969–75 |
Paul Wilwertz | 14 December 1945 | 29 June 1954 | |
François Wirtz | 14 December 1945 | 8 November 1947 | |
Eugène Rodenbourg | 28 April 1947 | 31 October 1972 | |
Émile Raus | 4 August 1948 | 26 October 1976 | President 1975–76 |
Lambert Schaus | 4 August 1948 | 19 January 1953 | |
André Origer | 4 August 1948 | 30 November 1978 | |
Ferdinand Wirtgen | 23 October 1950 | 11 December 1978 | President, 1976–78 |
Prince Jean of Luxembourg | 25 April 1951 | 12 June 1953 | |
Charles Léon Hammes | 26 November 1951 | 12 June 1953 | |
Hubert Clément | 2 May 1952 | 29 September 1953 | |
Albert Goldmann | 12 May 1953 | 4 December 1976 | President, 1976 |
Léon Schaus | 12 May 1953 | 15 July 1977 | |
Paul Thibeau | 1 March 1955 | 1 October 1972 | |
François Huberty | 1 March 1955 | 31 October 1972 | |
Roger Maul | 1 March 1955 | 16 September 1979 | President 1978–79 |
Louis Hencks | 12 August 1958 | 25 February 1974 | |
Nicolas Margue | 4 August 1959 | 30 September 1970 | |
Paul Wilwertz (2nd time) | 30 December 1959 | 16 December 1968 | |
Prince Felix (3rd time) | 5 May 1961 | 24 March 1969 | |
Joseph Wolter | 30 May 1961 | 17 January 1968 | |
Joseph Kauffman | 14 June 1961 | 11 June 1979 | |
Félix Worré | 10 July 1961 | 16 February 1980 | |
Alex Bonn | 17 July 1961 | 16 June 1980 | President, 1979–80 |
Paul Weber | 7 August 1961 | 2 October 1973 | |
Victor Bodson | 28 August 1961 | 21 July 1964 | |
Fernand Georges | 26 February 1965 | 1 January 2000 | |
Norbert Droessaert | 20 March 1968 | 1 November 1976 | |
Prince Charles | 24 March 1969 | 26 July 1977 | |
François Goerens | 14 June 1969 | 2 August 1987 | President 1980–87 |
Alfred Loesch | 11 November 1970 | 1 October 1974 | |
Robert Schaack | 24 October 1972 | 1 January 1988 | |
Fernand Zurn | 11 November 1972 | 11 March 1987 | |
Joseph Foog | 24 November 1972 | 10 June 1985 | |
Edmond Reuter | 7 December 1972 | 12 February 1990 | |
Albert Goedert | 19 December 1972 | 1 December 1982 | |
Ernest Arendt | 20 June 1973 | 6 August 1988 | President 1987–88 |
Paul Beghin | 10 January 1974 | 1 January 2000 | President, 1994–2000 |
Johny Lahure | 29 November 1974 | 20 July 1984 | |
Annette Schwall-Lacroix | 21 July 1975 | 16 July 1999 | |
Georges Thorn (1st time) | 15 December 1976 | 1 March 1979 | |
Gaston Diederich | 29 December 1976 | 11 February 1998 | |
Lucien Kraus | 18 January 1977 | 1 December 1985 | |
Cornel Meder | 29 July 1977 | 1 January 2000 | |
Charles Reiffers | 23 December 1978 | 15 October 1985 | |
Jules Pierret | 23 January 1979 | 23 January 1991 | |
René Grégorius | 15 March 1979 | 26 September 1991 | |
Jean Dupong | 24 October 1979 | 18 May 1994 | President, 1991–94 |
Numa Wagner | 26 November 1979 | 2 October 1992 | |
Henri Metz | 15 April 1980 | 1 January 2000 | |
Georges Faber | 26 July 1980 | 1 October 1993 | |
Hereditary Grand Duke Henri | 4 December 1980 | 9 March 1998 | |
Raymond Kirsch | 13 January 1983 | 13 January 2001 | President, 2000–01 |
John Castegnaro | 22 January 1985 | 22 January 2003 | |
Marcel Sauber | 28 June 1985 | 11 March 2003 | President, 2001–02 |
Georges Thorn (2nd time) | 12 November 1985 | 30 October 1991 | President, 1988–91 |
Paul-Henri Meyers | 28 November 1985 | 11 August 1999 | |
Claude Bicheler | 7 April 1987 | 7 April 2005 | |
Robert Biever | 1 October 1987 | 31 December 2000 | |
Charles Ruppert | 1 January 1988 | 1 January 2006 | |
Jean-Pierre Sinner | 26 October 1988 | 26 October 2006 | |
Pierre Mores | 20 March 1990 | 30 September 2007 | President, 2003–07 |
Victor Rod | 7 March 1991 | 2009 | |
Nicolas Schmit | 29 October 1991 | 30 July 2004 | |
Alain Meyer | 15 November 1991 | Present day | President, 2007–2009 |
Nico Edon | 2 October 1992 | Present day | |
Claude Hemmer | 25 November 1993 | Present day | |
Georges Schroeder | 7 June 1994 | President 2009–2012 | |
Carlo Meintz | 11 February 1998 | 5 May 2002 | |
Victor Gillen | 20 December 1999 | President 2012- | |
Georges Pierret | 14 January 2000 | Present day | |
Agnès Rausch | 11 February 2000 | Present day | |
Kik Schneider | 8 April 2000 | Present day | |
Paul Schmit | 9 June 2000 | Present day | |
Françoise Thoma | 27 October 2000 | Present day | |
Albert Hansen | 23 February 2001 | Present day | |
Viviane Ecker | 29 March 2001 | Present day | |
Albert Rodesch | 13 February 2003 | Present day | |
Ady Jung | 28 May 2003 | Present day | |
Romain Nati | 15 October 2004 | Present day | |
René Kollweter | 29 April 2005 | Present day | |
Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume | 10 June 2006 | Present day | |
Agnès Durdu | 7 April 2006 | Present day | |
Georges Wivenes | 1 August 2006 | Present day | |
Marc Schaefer | 18 December 2006 | Present day | |
Roger Molitor | 15 February 2008 | Present day | |
Patrick Santer | 27 April 2009 | Present day |
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