Christophe Gbenye

Christophe Gbenye (* probably 1927 in Nieder-Uelle , Orientale Province , Belgian Congo ; † February 3, 2015 in Kinshasa ) was a Congolese politician .

biography

After the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium on June 30, 1960, he became Minister of the Interior in the government of Patrice Lumumba . After the coup against the Lumumba government, he was a member of Antoine Gizenga's counter-government between September 1960 and August 1961 as Minister of the Interior. When Gizenga rejoined the regular government of Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula as Deputy Prime Minister in August 1961 , he again became Interior Minister in the Adoula Cabinet.

After Gizenga's arrest, he succeeded him as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1962. In 1963 he was dismissed as such by Adoula. In protest against his dismissal, he founded the People's Republic of the Congo in Stanleyville as leader of the Revolutionary Liberation Army and with the support of the People's Republic of China with Gaston Soumialot , General Olenga, Laurent-Désiré Kabila and others on September 8, 1964, and became its president.

After his escape from the Congo in November 1964 after the invasion of Belgian troops, he became chairman of the Revolutionary Government of the People's Republic of the Congo-Stanleyville in exile on May 27, 1965 . On August 6, 1965, Abdoulaye Yerodia succeeded him as chairman of the revolutionary government.

Between 1966 and 1971 he lived in exile in Uganda .

Web links

Sam Roberts: Christophe Gbenye, Radical Nationalist in Congo, Dies at 88. Obituary in The New York Times, February 11, 2015 (English)

Individual evidence

^ RDC: mort d'un ancien rebelle, proche de Patrice Lumumba. Obituary on rfi.fr of February 4, 2015 (French, accessed February 6, 2015).
↑ CHRONICLE June 8, 1964
↑ The History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
↑ DER SPIEGEL: AT THE MONUMENT YOU ASSES THE HEART OF THE ENEMY. SPIEGEL report from Stanleyville by Diedrich Mummendey (No. 49/1964)

personal data
SURNAME	Gbenye, Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Congolese politician
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nieder-Uelle , Orientale Province , Belgian Congo
DATE OF DEATH	3rd February 2015
Place of death	Kinshasa

[1] RDC: mort d'un ancien rebelle, proche de Patrice Lumumba. Obituary on rfi.fr of February 4, 2015 (French, accessed February 6, 2015).

[2] CHRONICLE June 8, 1964

[3] The History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

[4] DER SPIEGEL: AT THE MONUMENT YOU ASSES THE HEART OF THE ENEMY. SPIEGEL report from Stanleyville by Diedrich Mummendey (No. 49/1964)