Willmar Ministry

[1] When Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine received only a feeble majority in a confidence vote in the Chamber, he decided to resign.

[1] Jean-Jacques Madelaine Willmar, the son of the former governor of Luxembourg in the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, was asked to form a new government.

[1] Apart from the conservatives Mathias Ulrich and Jean Ulveling, the new prime minister appealed to Norbert Metz, the leader of the radical liberals, who was given the ministries of Finances and the Armed Forces.

[1] Norbert Metz, who was pro-Belgian and hostile to the German Confederation, made his mark on the Willmar government's foreign policy.

[2] An authoritarian person, William III wished to return to the autocratic regime of before 1848 and soon clashed with Willmar's coalition government.