Английская Википедия:Alphonse Engels

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Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Alphonse Engels (1880–1962), or A.L.R. Engels, was deputy governor-general of Congo-Kasaï province in the Belgian Congo from 1924 to 1929.

Life

Alphonse Engels was born in 1880.Шаблон:Sfn He became a soldier by trade.Шаблон:Sfn He replaced Georges Moulaert as deputy governor-general of Équateur in 1919. On 25 October 1921 he was succeeded as governor by Charles Duchesne.Шаблон:Sfn

Engels was deputy governor-general of Congo-Kasaï province in the Belgian Congo from 1924 to 1929.Шаблон:Sfn He replaced Léon Guilain Bureau (1869–1944) as deputy governor-general of Congo-Kasaï in 1922. In 1925 he was made governor and deputy governor-general of the province. He left office on 19 June 1929, replaced by Joseph Beernaert.Шаблон:Sfn

In September 1930 Engels was a member of a formal commission of inquiry into the conditions of laborers in the colony. Other members included Colonel Alexis BertrandШаблон:Efn and Pierre Ryckmans, who had investigated the Kilo-Moto gold mines and the Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB).Шаблон:Sfn

Later he became a member of the Commission for the Royal Belgian Colonial Institute's Belgian Colonial Biography.Шаблон:Sfn He may have not been entirely impartial. When describing the very controversial summary execution by the Belgian officer Hubert Lothaire of the British merchant Charles Stokes in 1895, Engels describes Lothaire as a valliant officer, while Stokes had played an infamous role.Шаблон:Sfn

Engels died in 1962.Шаблон:Sfn

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