Alphonse Engels
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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.
He became a soldier by trade.
He replaced Georges Moulaert as deputy governor-general of Équateur in 1919.
On 25 October 1921 he was succeeded as governor by Charles Duchesne.
Engels was deputy governor-general of Congo-Kasaï province in the Belgian Congo from 1924 to 1929.
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.
In September 1930 Engels was a member of a formal commission of inquiry into the conditions of laborers in the colony.
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