1941 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1941 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1941 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)[1]
• Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (in exile)
• Head of the occupying Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France: Alexander von Falkenhausen
• Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder

Events

• 1 January – Léon Degrelle calls on Belgians to collaborate with Nazi Germany.[2]^:850
• 14 January – Radio Belgique launches V for Victory campaign.[2]^:850
• 21 January – Belgian government in exile reaches an agreement with the United Kingdom that Belgian Congo will become part of the Sterling area and enter the war on the allied side.[2]^:850
• 3 March – Dedicated Dutch-language Radio België begins broadcasting from London.[2]^:850
• 25 March – Twenty leading figures from the vicinity of Liège taken hostage in retaliation to sabotage of the railway, including former government minister of public works, Jules Joseph Merlot.[2]^:852
• 5 May – Flemish collaborationist organisations Vlaams Nationaal Verbond and Verdinaso, and the Flemish section of the Rexist Party, sign an agreement to merge.[2]^:851
• 16 May – Anniversary of the German invasion marked by strikes.[2]^:851
• 22 June – 337 left-wing activists arrested to prevent.[2]^:851
• 25 November – Université Libre de Bruxelles closes to protest plans to appoint pro-German professors.[2]^:852
• 6 December – King Leopold marries Lilian Baels in captivity.[2]^:850

Births

• 3 February – Antoine Duquesne, politician (died 2010)
• 25 February – Nelly Maes, politician
• 21 March – Dirk Frimout, astronaut
• 28 March – Walter van den Broeck, writer
• 31 May – Nicole Van Goethem, illustrator (died 2000)
• 6 July – Alfons Vansteenwegen, communication theorist
• 2 August – Jean Cornelis, footballer (died 2016)
• 5 August – August Verhaegen, cyclist (died 2012)
• 8 August – Hubert Schoonbroodt, musician (died 1992)
• 20 September – Alix de Lannoy, noblewoman (died 2012)
• 23 September – Rita Van De Velde, gymnast
• 28 September – Lucas Van Looy, bishop
• 30 September – Els Witte, historian
• 2 October – Jean Vallée, entertainer (died 2014)
• 24 October – Frank Aendenboom, entertainer (died 2018)
• 26 October – Bob de Groot, cartoonist
• 17 November – Thierry de Gruben, diplomat
• 26 November – Constant Bens, wrestler
• 23 December – Serge Reding, weightlifter (died 1975)

Deaths

• 18 February – George Minne (born 1866), poet
• 9 March – Paul Hymans (born 1865), politician
• 28 August – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, noblewoman
• 16 September – Valerius De Saedeleer (born 1867), painter

References

1. "Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).