List of colonial governors of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo

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Belgian Congo (dark green) depicted with Belgian Ruanda-Urundi (light green), 1935.
Standard of the Governor-General of Belgian Congo

This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo, an area equivalent to modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.

List of Colonial Heads of Congo[edit]

Tenure Incumbent Notes
International Association of the Congo
22 April 1884 to June 1884 Sir Frederic Goldsmid, Administrator
22 April 1884 to 1 July 1885 Sir Francis Walter de Winton, Administrator-general
23 February 1885 Sovereign status of Congo recognised by the Berlin Conference
23 February 1885 to 1 July 1885 Maximilien Strauch, President of the International Association of the Congo
Congo Free State
1 July 1885 to 1886 Sir Francis Walter de Winton, Administrator-general
1886 to 26 March 1887 Camille Janssen, Administrator-general
26 March 1887 to 1 March 1888 Camille Janssen, Governor-General 1st Term
1 March 1888 to 1889 Hermann Ledeganck, acting Governor-General
1889 to 17 April 1891 Camille Janssen, Governor-General 2nd Term
17 April 1891 to 8 May 1891 Henri-Ernest Gondry, Governor
8 May 1891 to 26 August 1892 Camille-Aimé Coquilhat, Governor
26 August 1892 to 4 September 1896 Théophile Théodore Joseph Antoine, Baron Wahis, Governor-General 1st Term
1896 to 1900 Émile Wangermée, acting Governor-General
4 September 1896 to 21 December 1900 Francis, Baron Dhanis, vice Governor-General
21 December 1900 to December 1900 Colonel Bartels, acting Governor
1900 to 15 November 1908 Théophile Théodore Joseph Antoine, Baron Wahis, Governor-General 2nd Term
Belgian Congo annexed by Belgium
15 November 1908 to 1912 Théophile Théodore Joseph Antoine, Baron Wahis, Governor-General
20 May 1912 to 5 January 1916 Félix Alexandre Fuchs, Governor-General
5 January 1916 to 30 January 1921 Eugène Joseph Mary Henry, Governor-General
30 January 1921 to 24 January 1923 Maurice Eugène Auguste Lippens, Governor-General
24 January 1923 to 27 December 1927 Martin Joseph Marie René Rutten, Governor-General
27 December 1927 to 14 September 1934 Auguste Constant Tilkens, Governor-General
14 September 1934 to 31 December 1946 Pierre Ryckmans, Governor-General
31 December 1946 to 1 January 1952 Eugène Jacques Pierre Louis Jungers, Governor-General
1 January 1952 to 12 July 1958 Léon Antoine Marie Pétillon, Governor-General
12 July 1958 to 30 June 1960 Henri Arthur Adolf Marie Christopher Cornelis, Governor-General
1 July 1960 Independence as Republic of the Congo

For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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