Albert Thys

Albert Thys (Dalhem, November 28th 1849 - Brussels, February 10th 1915) was a Belgian businessman active in the State independent of Congo. It gave its name of Thysville to the station of Sounded Qongo, current Mbanza-Ngungu in the Low-Congo.

Raise School of war, it entered to the service of Léopold II of Belgium in 1876 to ensure the secretariat for the colonial businesses. To the return of Henry Morton Stanley, the King sent it in England to propose to him a new forwarding in central Africa on behalf of the African International association. He took an active share with the organization of the first forwardings which will lead to the constitution of the State independent of Congo. Arrived at Congo in 1887, he was the promoter of the line of Railroad Matadi-Léopoldville, built of 1890 to 1898. He imposed a route by the south, deviating from the river Congo. He was one of the principal craftsmen of the development and the economic development of the State independent of Congo and the Belgian Congo. He created in particular the Compagnie of Congo for the Trade and Industry (December 27th, 1886) and of his many subsidiary companies: the Railroad of Congo, the Company of the general Stores, the Belgian Public limit company for the Trade of High-Congo, the Company des¨Produits, the Company of Katanga. Among his descendants, one counts to his son-in-law Henry the Ox and Odilon-Jean Perrier

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