The Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier of the Belgian State Archives opened in 2011. It is located on the / in

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

, in a building designed by and built in 1912. Its name honors the historian and government

archivist An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist can cons ...

Joseph Cuvelier (1869–1947).

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The repository contains archival materials related to the

economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

and

political Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

history of Belgium, including: * Ministerial cabinets **

Didier Reynders Didier Reynders (; born 6 August 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Reformist Movement, Mouvement Réformateur (MR) that served as List of European Commissioners for Justice and Equality, European Commissioner for Justice until 30 ...

(1999-2011) ** Olivier Chastel (2008-2011) * Service public fédéral Économie ** Commission des brevets, 1914-1932 * Ministère de la Reconstruction^{( fr)} * Business enterprises, such as: **

Banque Belge pour l'Étranger The ''Banque Belge pour l'Étranger'' (BBE, ) was a Belgian bank that channeled many international banking operations of its controlling shareholder the Société Générale de Belgique (SGB) in the first half of the 20th century. It was original ...

Banque d’Outremer The ''Banque d'Outremer'' (), initially known as the ''Compagnie Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie'' (CICI, ) was a Belgian financial institution, established in 1899 in the context of the exploitation of the Congo Free State, and ev ...

** Chambre de commerce de Bruxelles ** Cimenterie CBR ** Clinique Malibran et Solbosch ** Compagnie de Pont à Mousson ** Compagnie financière Belgo-Chinoise ** Fabrimetal ** Fédération des Entreprises de Belgique (FEB) ** Fonderie Nationale des Bronzes ** ING ** Société Agefi ** Société Anversoise Foncière et Industrielle ** Société belge d’Entreprises en Chine ** Société Commerciale belgo-allemande du Congo **

Société Générale de Belgique The ' (, ; often referred to in Belgium simply as "Société Générale" or SGB) was an investment bank and, subsequently, an industrial and financial conglomerate in Belgium between 1822 and 2003. It has been described as the world's first u ...

Congo-related material

The repository has material related to the colonial politics and economy of the

Congo Free State The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo (), was a large Sovereign state, state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by Leopold II of Belgium, King Leopold II, the const ...

(1885–1908) and

Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo (, ; ) was a Belgian colonial empire, Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Repu ...

(1908-1960), such as: * Dégâts Congo (administration, reconstruction) * Commission (supérieure) d’indemnisation * Business enterprises, including: ** Balser et Compagnie **

Banque de Bruxelles The Bank of Brussels (, ) was a prominent bank in Brussels, established in 1871 and merged in 1975 with Banque Lambert to form Banque Bruxelles Lambert. It was Belgium's second-largest bank for most of its existence, behind the Société Géné ...

** Banque d’Outremer ** Banque Léon Lambert ** Collchimie-Congo (Group Hoechst Belgium) ** ** Compagnie des Bronzes ** Compagnie du Bécéka (Sibeka) ** Compagnie pour le Commerce et l’Industrie du Congo (Finoutremer) **

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (, ) is a Germany, German multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. ...

Géomines Géomines (''Compagnie Géologique et Minière des Ingénieurs et Industriels belges'') was a Belgian mining company active in the Belgian Congo and then in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established in 1910, and exploited a large de ...

** Groep Coppée **

Siemens-Schuckert Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966. Siemens Schuckert was founded in 1903 when Siemens & H ...

** Société Agence Financière ** Société Anonyme de Production, de Transports et d’Echanges (Saptec) ** Société Anversoise Foncière et Industrielle ** Société Commerciale Belgo-Allemande du Congo ** Société de Crédit aux Classes Moyennes et à l’Industrie ** Société de Traction et Electricité (Tractionel) ** Société Financière de Transport et d'Entreprises Industrielles (Sofina) **

(Generale Maatschappij van België) ** Société Industrielle et Minière du Congo Oriental ** Steinhaus W. & Cie **

Union Minière du Haut Katanga Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''Unio ...

** Van de Winckel Hippolyte

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Congo-related material

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