François Wenner (19 July 1889 – 4 December 1965
obituary in Luxemburger Wort, 6.12.1965
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Lusambo is a territory in and capital of Sankuru province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town lies north of the confluence of the Sankuru River and the Lubi River. Lusambo is served by Lusambo Airport.
In 1890 Lusambo was chosen by Paul ...
in the Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo (french: Congo belge, ; nl, Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
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from 1940 to 1944.
Early years
François Wenner was born on 19 July 1889 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
He entered the Belgian army, leaving as a commandant in 1918.
He joined the colonial service on 4 July 1920.
Colonial service
Wenner left for the Congo in 1920 as a colonial administrator at Lebo, Bas-Uélé, and then in the Sankuru region.
He was appointed district commissioner, first class on 1 January 1929.
He was district commissioner of Sankuru District
Sankuru District (french: District du Sankuru, nl, District Sankuru) was a district of the Belgian Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It went through various changes in extent, but roughly corresponded to the modern Sankuru Province.
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, with headquarters at Lusambo
Lusambo is a territory in and capital of Sankuru province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town lies north of the confluence of the Sankuru River and the Lubi River. Lusambo is served by Lusambo Airport.
In 1890 Lusambo was chosen by Paul ...
from September 1931 to January 1932.
On 11 September 1940 Wenner succeeded Constant Wauters
Constant Wauters (born 25 April 1889) was a Belgian colonial official. He was commissioner of Lusambo Province in the Belgian Congo from 1 October 1933 to 17 August 1940.
Life
Constant Joseph Antoine Wauters was born on 25 April 1889.
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as commissioner of Lusambo Province.
His position was renamed to governor in 1941.
He left office on 9 June 1944, and was succeeded by R.P. Preys.
In 1947 he was appointed governor of Équateur in place of Van Hoeck, the interim governor who had replaced Eugène J.F. Henry.
In 1950 he was replaced by Luc Breuls de Tiecken
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Last years, death and legacy
Wenner was made a member of the Royal Order of the Lion on 8 April 1947.
On 20 August 1949 he was promoted to commander of the order.
On 17 April 1957 F. Wenner, honorary provincial governor of the Belgian Congo, was among the guests at the inauguration of the Franco-Belgo-Luxembourgeoise tourism exposition.
Wenner died in 1964.
He had two children, a daughter Sanki (1921–2001) and a son Jean-Paul (1930–2001).
He made an important collection of African art, including the famous statue of Tulantshedy Matak, Kuba Regent, who lived in the 17th century.
He exhibited this statue at the Antwerp exhibition of 1937 with 16 other royal Kuba statues.
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1889 births
1965 deaths
20th-century Luxembourgian people
Governors of Kasaï (former province)
Governors of provinces of the Belgian Congo
Belgian colonial administrators