Camille Janssen | |
Office: | Governor-General of the Congo Free State |
Term Start: | 30 July 1886 |
Term End: | 1 July 1892 |
Predecessor: | Francis de Winton (as Administrator-General) |
Successor: | Théophile Wahis |
Birth Date: | 5 December 1837 |
Birth Place: | Liège, Belgium |
Death Place: | Brussels, Belgium |
Camille Janssen (5 December 1837–18 April 1926) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who held the position of Governor-General of the Congo Free State from 1886 to 1892. After 1893, Joseph Chailley would found the International Colonial Institute, for which Janssen would be the secretary-general. His son, Georges Janssen, would become head of the National Bank of Belgium.