Jean Joseph Camille Huysmans (born as Camiel Hansen 26 May 1871 – 25 February 1968)[1][2] was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1946 to 1947.

In 1911 he proposed a bill, drafted by Lodewijk De Raet, together with the Roman Catholic Frans Van Cauwelaert and the liberal Louis Franck for the usage of Dutch at the University of Ghent.

After World War II (at age 75) he became the 34th Prime Minister and led a government of socialists, liberals and communists.

In domestic affairs, a raft of progressive reforms were carried out during Huysmans's time as 34th Prime Minister.

[6] In addition, a legislative Order of 28 February 1947 supplemented and amended the provisions of an August 1930 law by extending the scope of family allowances for wage-earners,[7] while another Order issued that same month authorised the National Association for Cheap Housing to raise a loan of one thousand million Belgian francs to contribute towards the costs of a housebuilding programme for miners.

He was a freemason, a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels.