Albert Paulis
Albert Paulis (* 1875 ; † 1933 ) was an officer in the Belgian army . After attending the Belgian Military Academy, he was sent to the Congo Free State at the turn of the century . In 1903 he took part in reconnaissance missions in Bahr el-Ghazal . The following year he established the Ire and Bel-Air posts on Mirid. These were taken over by the British in 1907 . In the same year he founded the Société coloniale de construction (Socol) with Pauling . He ended the First World War with the rank of colonel . In 1918 he became Chief of Staff to the Minister for Colonies, Louis Franck . Paulis mainly dealt with transport issues in the Belgian Congo . In addition to Socol, whose direction he took over in 1921, he was involved in the Cotonnière du Congo and initiated the Congolese branch line with the engineer Alfred Liénart . The city, built in 1934 at what was then the terminus, was named after him, but was given the name of the neighboring village of Isiro as part of the Zairianization .
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- Thierry Denoël (Ed.): Le nouveau dictionnaire des Belges. 2. édition revue, améliorée, et augmentée. Le Cri, Brussels 1992, ISBN 2-87106-063-0 .
- Albert Paulis Archive , Royal Museum for Central Africa
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Paulis, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian colonial officer, builder of the Chemins de fer Vicinaux du Congo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1875 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1933 |