Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Jean Schramme

Index Jean Schramme

Jean Schramme (March 25, 1929, Bruges, Belgium – December 14, 1988, Rondonópolis, Brazil) was a Belgian mercenary and planter. [1]

38 relations: Aircraft hijacking, Algeria, Algiers, Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Arrest, Belgian Congo, Belgian Land Component, Belgians, Belgium, Bob Denard, Brazil, Bruges, Bukavu, Carnation Revolution, Congo Crisis, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Farmer, Gendarmerie, Jet aircraft, Kasaï region, Katanga Province, Kisangani, Mad Mike Hoare, Major, Mato Grosso, Mercenary, Moïse Tshombe, Mobutu Sese Seko, North American T-28 Trojan, Patrice Lumumba, Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Rondonópolis, Rwanda, Simba rebellion, Stanleyville mutinies, State of Katanga, West Flanders, Zaire.

Aircraft hijacking

Aircraft hijacking (also air piracy or aircraft piracy, especially within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States and in the US state of Mississippi, and as skyjacking in some nations) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Aircraft hijacking · See more »

Algeria

Algeria (الجزائر, familary Algerian Arabic الدزاير; ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ; Dzayer; Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Algeria · See more »

Algiers

Algiers (الجزائر al-Jazā’er, ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻ, Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Algiers · See more »

Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC)) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo · See more »

Arrest

An arrest is the act of apprehending a person and taking them into custody, usually because they have been suspected of committing or planning a crime.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Arrest · See more »

Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo (Congo Belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

New!!: Jean Schramme and Belgian Congo · See more »

Belgian Land Component

The Land Component (Landcomponent, Composante terre) is the land-based branch of the Belgian Armed Forces.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Belgian Land Component · See more »

Belgians

Belgians (Belgen, Belges, Belgier) are people identified with the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Belgians · See more »

Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Belgium · See more »

Bob Denard

Robert Denard (7 April 1929 – 13 October 2007) was a French soldier and mercenary.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Bob Denard · See more »

Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Brazil · See more »

Bruges

Bruges (Brugge; Bruges; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Bruges · See more »

Bukavu

Bukavu (former official names: Costermansville (French) and Costermansstad (Dutch)) is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Bukavu · See more »

Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), also referred to as the 25th of April (vinte e cinco de Abril), was initially a military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, on 25 April 1974 which overthrew the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Carnation Revolution · See more »

Congo Crisis

The Congo Crisis (Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between 1960 and 1965.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Congo Crisis · See more »

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Democratic Republic of the Congo · See more »

Farmer

A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Farmer · See more »

Gendarmerie

Wrong info! --> A gendarmerie or gendarmery is a military component with jurisdiction in civil law enforcement.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Gendarmerie · See more »

Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by jet engines (jet propulsion).

New!!: Jean Schramme and Jet aircraft · See more »

Kasaï region

The Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is divided administratively into Kasai-Occidental and Kasai-Oriental.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Kasaï region · See more »

Katanga Province

Katanga was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Katanga Province · See more »

Kisangani

Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad) is the capital of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Kisangani · See more »

Mad Mike Hoare

Thomas Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare (born 17 March 1919) is a British-Irish mercenary leader known for military activities in Africa and his attempt to conduct a coup d'état in the Seychelles.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Mad Mike Hoare · See more »

Major

Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Major · See more »

Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso (– lit. "Thick Bushes") is one of the states of Brazil, the third-largest by area, located in the western part of the country.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Mato Grosso · See more »

Mercenary

A mercenary is an individual who is hired to take part in an armed conflict but is not part of a regular army or other governmental military force.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Mercenary · See more »

Moïse Tshombe

Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (sometimes written Tshombé) (10 November 1919 – 29 June 1969) was a Congolese businessman and politician.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Moïse Tshombe · See more »

Mobutu Sese Seko

Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (which Mobutu renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Mobutu Sese Seko · See more »

North American T-28 Trojan

The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s.

New!!: Jean Schramme and North American T-28 Trojan · See more »

Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Émery Lumumba (alternatively styled Patrice Hemery Lumumba; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Patrice Lumumba · See more »

Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo) was a sovereign state in Central Africa that was created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) · See more »

Rondonópolis

Rondonópolis (formerly known as Rio Vermelho (Red River)) is the third-largest municipality in Mato Grosso.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Rondonópolis · See more »

Rwanda

Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Rwanda · See more »

Simba rebellion

The Simba rebellion of 1964 was a revolt in Congo-Léopoldville (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) which took place within the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Simba rebellion · See more »

Stanleyville mutinies

The Kisangani Mutinies, also known as the Stanleyville Mutinies or Mercenaries' Mutinies, occurred in 1966 and 1967.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Stanleyville mutinies · See more »

State of Katanga

The State of Katanga, also sometimes denoted as the Republic of Katanga, was a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from the Republic of Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local ''Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga'' (CONAKAT) political party (Federation of Kata).

New!!: Jean Schramme and State of Katanga · See more »

West Flanders

West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen; West Flemish: West Vloandern; French: (Province de) Flandre-Occidentale; German: Westflandern) is the most western province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium.

New!!: Jean Schramme and West Flanders · See more »

Zaire

Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire (République du Zaïre), was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa.

New!!: Jean Schramme and Zaire · See more »

Redirects here:

Black Jack Schramme, Jean schramme, Schramme.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schramme

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »