Auguste Tilkens
| Auguste Tilkens | |
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| Governor-General of the Belgian Congo | |
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In office 27 December 1927 – 14 September 1934 |
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| Monarch |
Albert I (1927–34) Leopold III (1934) |
| Preceded by | Martin Rutten |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Ryckmans |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Auguste Constant Tilkens 1 October 1869 Ostend, Belgium |
| Died | 1 December 1949 (aged 80) Brussels, Belgium |
Lieutenant General Auguste Tilkens (1869–1949) was a Belgian career soldier and colonial civil servant who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1927 until 1934.
Auguste Tilkens was born in 1869 into a large family in the Flemish coastal city of Ostend. He entered the Royal Military Academy in 1887 and became an artillery officer in the Belgian Army. Following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, during German invasion of Belgium, Tilkens served in the Belgian forces and was decorated for valour at the Battle of the Yser. In 1916, with emergence of static trench warfare on the Western Front, he volunteered for service in Belgian Congo where fighting had broken out on the colony's border with German East Africa. He served under Charles Tombeur during the subsequent fighting in East Africa. In 1917, he returned to Europe where he became aide de camp to King Albert I. After the end of World War I in 1918, Tilkens remained in the army and rose through the ranks further, taking overall command of Belgium's artillery and, later, its Air Force. In 1927, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.
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