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Hubert Biermans was born into a poor family in 1864 in Herkenbosch (The Netherlands) and worked from the age of 13 on the railways under the direction of the Belgian entrepreneur Florent Lapôtre. He…
Stato di ebbrezza
Hubert Biermans was born into a poor family in 1864 in Herkenbosch (The Netherlands) and worked from the age of 13 on the railways under the direction of the Belgian entrepreneur Florent Lapôtre. He participated in the entire construction of the Matadi-Leopoldville railway from 1890 until 1898. The conditions were harsh and many workers lost their lives or their health. Biermans was initially a works manager in the design department, whose role was to precede the construction teams and to choose and mark out the route to be taken by the railway. He was then promoted to head of the superstructure department, responsible for laying the rails and bridges. Albert Thys, right-hand man of Leopold II and manager of the Overseas Bank, saw Hubert Biermans' potential and sent him to Canada to manage a pulp and paper mill in 1900, BELGO. Biermans made it the first mill in the world and was the head of a colossal fortune. He married Berthe Lapôtre in 1907 and together they built hospitals, schools and retirement homes in Canada, France and Belgium. In Paris, in 1927, he built the Biermans-Lapôtre Foundation in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris to house Belgian and Luxembourg students who were studying there. He died in Monaco in 1953 and was buried in Morlanwelz in Belgium. He bequeathed his fortune to numerous charities, the Queen Elisabeth Foundation and the Belgian, French and Monegasque Red Cross. The documentary interviews Belgian, Canadian and Congolese historians, as well as former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, whose father was Hubert Biermans' employee at the Belgo and responsible for the village of Belgoville in Shawinigan, Canada.
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Biography,Comedy,Drama
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Hubert Biermans was born into a poor family in 1864 in Herkenbosch (The Netherlands) and worked from the age of 13 on the railways under the direction of the Belgian entrepreneur Florent Lapôtre. He participated in the entire construction of the Matadi-Leopoldville railway from 1890 until 1898. The conditions were harsh and many workers lost their lives or their health.
Biermans was initially a works manager in the design department, whose role was to precede the construction teams and to choose and mark out the route to be taken by the railway. He was then promoted to head of the superstructure department, responsible for laying the rails and bridges. Albert Thys, right-hand man of Leopold II and manager of the Overseas Bank, saw Hubert Biermans' potential and sent him to Canada to manage a pulp and paper mill in 1900, BELGO.
Biermans made it the first mill in the world and was the head of a colossal fortune. He married Berthe Lapôtre in 1907 and together they built hospitals, schools and retirement homes in Canada, France and Belgium. In Paris, in 1927, he built the Biermans-Lapôtre Foundation in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris to house Belgian and Luxembourg students who were studying there.
He died in Monaco in 1953 and was buried in Morlanwelz in Belgium. He bequeathed his fortune to numerous charities, the Queen Elisabeth Foundation and the Belgian, French and Monegasque Red Cross. The documentary interviews Belgian, Canadian and Congolese historians, as well as former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, whose father was Hubert Biermans' employee at the Belgo and responsible for the village of Belgoville in Shawinigan, Canada..