Louis Postiaux
Louis Joseph Postiaux (15 August 1882 – 31 March 1948) was a Belgian colonial administrator who was governor of Ruanda-Urundi, and then governor of Katanga Province. Early years (1882–1905) Louis-Joseph Postiaux was born in La Hulpe, Belgium, on 15 August 1882. His parents were Jean-Baptiste-Alexis Postiaux and Elise Hernalsteen. After completing his secondary education he worked for several employers before entering the colonial service in 1905 as a clerk 1st class. Congo (1905–1926) Postiaux left Antwerp on 19 October 1905 bound for the Congo Free State. On 10 November 1905 he joined the administrative service in Boma in the Bas Congo. He moved to Orientale Province on 14 February 1907, and was promoted to chief clerk on 1 July 1907. He returned to Belgium on leave, then left again for what was now the Belgian Congo on 5 May 1910, where he served his second term as an administrative officer 3rd class. He took five months leave in 1912, then returned as an administrative officer 2nd class. In his fourth term he held the rank of director. In 1924 the governor general Martin Rutten appointed Postiaux deputy secretary-general. Postiaux returned to Europe at the end of May 1926. Ruanda-Urundi (1926–1930)