1941 in Belgium
# 1941 in Belgium

Events in the year 1941 in Belgium

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)
* 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 $Germany.^{:850}$
* 14 January – Radio Belgique launches V for Victory $campaign.^{:850}$
* 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 $side.^{:850}$
* 3 March – Dedicated Dutch-language Radio België begins broadcasting from $London.^{:850}$
* 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 $Merlot.^{:852}$
* 5 May – Flemish collaborationist organisations Vlaams Nationaal Verbond and Verdinaso, and the Flemish section of the Rexist Party, sign an agreement to $merge.^{:851}$
* 16 May – Anniversary of the German invasion marked by $strikes.^{:851}$
* 22 June – 337 left-wing activists arrested to $prevent.^{:851}$
* 25 November – Université Libre de Bruxelles closes to protest plans to appoint pro-German $professors.^{:852}$
* 6 December – King Leopold marries Lilian Baels in $captivity.^{:850}$

## Births

* 3 February – Antoine Duquesne, politician (died 2010)
* 25 February – Nelly Maes, politician
* 16 May – Andreas De Leenheer, biologist (died 2022)
* 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)
* 20 October – Leopold Lippens, politician (died 2021)
* 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
* 25 October – Renée de Merode (born 1859), noblewoman
