Joseph Kasa-Vubu,alternatively Joseph Kasavubu,was a Congolese politician who served as the first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1960 until 1965.
Pierre Ryckmans,was a Belgian civil servant who served as Governor-General of Belgium's principal African colony,the Belgian Congo,between 1934 and 1946. Ryckmans began his career in the colonial service in 1915 and also spent time in the Belgian mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. His term as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo coincided with World War II in which he was instrumental in bringing the colony into the war on the Allied side after Belgium's defeat in May 1940. He was also a prolific writer on colonial affairs. He was posthumously created a peer of the realm in the Belgian nobility with the rank of count in 1962.
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.
Martin Rutten (1876–1944) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1923 to 1927.
Lieutenant General Auguste Tilkens (1869–1949) was a Belgian career soldier and colonial civil servant who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1927 until 1934.
Léo Pétillon was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1952–58) and,briefly,as Minister of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1958).
The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences is a Belgian federal academy that contributes to the progress of scientific knowledge about overseas regions. It is located in Uccle,Brussels,and is one of Belgium's numerous academies.
Félicien Cattier (1869–1946) was a very prominent Belgian banker,financier and philanthropist. He was also professor of law at the Free University of Brussels. He was governor of the powerful trust,the SociétéGénérale de Belgique and chairman of the Union minière du-Haut-Katanga amongst many other companies.
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.
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.
Georges Van der Kerken was a Belgian lawyer,colonial administrator and professor. He served as acting governor of Équateur Province in the Belgian Congo in 1922. He is known for his publications on the ethnology of peoples of the Belgian Congo.
Léon Guilain Bureau was a Belgian soldier who served in administrative roles in the Ottoman Empire and the Belgian Congo. Between 1918 and 1928 he was deputy governor general in turn of Congo-Kasaïand Katanga.
Charles Adolphe Marie Liebrechts was a Belgian soldier,explorer and administrator in the Congo Free State.
Joseph Kiwele was a Congolese and Katangese musician and politician. He was Katanga's Minister of National Education and author of the state's national anthem,La Katangaise.
Alfred Frédéric Gérard Marzorati was a Belgian lawyer and colonial administrator. He served at the bar in Brussels,then became a magistrate in the Belgian Congo. During World War I he was a legal advisor to the Belgian forces occupying German East Africa. He was appointed royal commissioner in charge of the Belgian mandate of Ruanda-Urundi in 1919,and strongly supported the 1926 administrative union between these territories and the Belgian Congo.
Alfred Louis Fernand Ghislain Claeys-Boúúaert was a Belgian lawyer and politician. He was a senator from 1894 to 1921.
The Compagnie Industrielle et de Transports au Stanley Pool (CITAS) was a Belgian company involved in transport on the Congo River between 1902 and 1955,in what was first the Congo Free State and then the Belgian Congo,today the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The company evolved from owning a shipyard in Léopoldville (now to providing transport services on the Congo,and then to running a port in Léopoldville.
The Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l’Industrie (CCCI) was a major conglomerate active in the Congo Free State,Belgian Congo and later the Democratic Republic of the Congo where its subsidiary companies engaged in a wide range of activities in the Congo between 1887 and 1971. These included railway and river transport,mining,agriculture,banking,trading and so on. It was the largest commercial enterprise in the Congo for many years. It went through various mergers in the years that followed before its successor Finoutremer was liquidated in 2000.
The following lists events that happened during 1923 in the Belgian Congo.
Joseph Adipanga was a Congolese soldier for the Belgian Army during the First World War and civil servant at the Belgian Ministry of the Colonies.
