General Government of Belgium
Imperial German General Government of Belgium Kaiserliches Deutsches Generalgouvernement Belgien (German) | |||||||||||||
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| 1914–1918 | |||||||||||||
Map of the whole area under German occupation, c.1916 of which the General Government was part. | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Brussels | ||||||||||||
| Military Governor of Belgium | |||||||||||||
• Aug–Nov 1914 | Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz | ||||||||||||
• Dec 1914 - April 1917 | Moritz von Bissing | ||||||||||||
• May 1917 - Nov 1918 | Ludwig von Falkenhausen | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||||||
• Established | 26 August 1914 | ||||||||||||
| 26 Aug 1914 - 9 Nov 1918 | |||||||||||||
• Armistice, withdrawal of German forces | 11 November 1918 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Belgian franc German Papiermark | ||||||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | BE | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Belgium France | ||||||||||||
The Imperial German General Government of Belgium (German: Kaiserliches Deutsches Generalgouvernement Belgien) was a German Army occupation administration which administered one of the three separate occupation zones established in German-occupied Belgium during the First World War.