Alexandre Galopin (1879 - 1944) was a Belgian businessman. He was director of the Société Générale de Belgique, a large Belgian company founded in 1822 by William I. Benoit de Bonvoisin is his grandson. A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... King William I of the Netherlands was born as Willem Frederik on 25 August 1772 in The Hague, and died December 12, 1843 in Berlin, Germany. ...

Galopin was behind the Galopin doctrine, a "lesser evil" tactic that allowed industrial development in the occupied Belgium during the Second World War, under auspices of the Belgian government in exile. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

In 1944, Galopin was assassinated by Robert Jan Verbelen, a Nazi collaborator. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. ...

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