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The following lists events that happened during 1915 in the Belgian Congo .
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The following lists events that happened during 1915 in the Belgian Congo .
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| Joseph Kasa-Vubu, first president of the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), is born in the village of Kuma-Dizi in the Mayombe district. | |
| Adolphe De Meulemeester is appointed Interim governor of Katanga Province. [1] | |
| 6 April | Belgians report that they have repelled a German attack north of Lake Kivu. [2] |
| August 1915 | Germans attack Saisi, 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Abercorn. Frederik-Valdemar Olsen sends a battalion under Gaston Heenen to defend Saisi. [3] |
Eugène Jungers (1888–1958) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer. Beginning his career in the Belgian Congo as a colonial magistrate, Jungers rose rapidly through the judiciary and became the colonial governor of the League of Nations Mandate of Ruanda-Urundi from 1932 to 1946. In 1946, Jungers was further promoted to Governor-General of the Belgian Congo, the senior administrative position in the colony, which he held from 1946 to 1952.
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Lieutenant General Charles Tombeur, 1st Baron of Tabora was a Belgian military officer and colonial civil servant. As well as holding several major administrative positions in the Belgian Congo, he is particularly known for his role as commander of the Belgian colonial military, the Force Publique, during the first years of World War I. His military career culminated in the capture of Tabora in German East Africa in September 1916.
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Adolphe De Meulemeester was a Belgian soldier and colonial administrator. He was deputy governor-general and then governor of the Orientale Province of the Belgian Congo from 1917 to 1926. He introduced many innovations including a road network, schools and clinics, chiefdom and sector councils, and cotton plantations.
Alfred Alphonse Moeller de Laddersous was a Belgian lawyer, colonial administrator and businessman. He served as governor of the Orientale Province in the Belgian Congo from 1926 to 1933.
Rodolphe Dufour was a Belgian colonial administrator. From 1933 to 1940 he was commissioner (governor) of the Orientale Province.
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Paul Léon Delwart was a Belgian officer in the Force Publique of the Congo Free State.
The Union Nationale des Transports Fluviaux (Unatra) was a government-controlled company that provided river transport services in the Belgian Congo between 1925 and 1936.
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The following lists events that happened during 1923 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1917 in the Belgian Congo.
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