Charles Adolphe Marie Liebrechts (7 May 1858 – 14 July 1938) was a Belgian soldier, explorer and administrator in the Congo Free State.

[2] King Leopold II of Belgium decided that his Force Publique in the Congo, still publicly seen as part of the International African Association, needed an artillery man.

On 24 November 1884 they reached Msuata, where Liebrechts stayed, and where they met Giacomo Savorgnan di Brazzà and Attilio Pécile, of the French mission, who were going by canoe to the Alima.

[1] Stanley arrived in Léopoldville with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, and Liebrechts managed to provide him with the steamers he needed.

In March 1888 the shipyards launched the Roi des Belges for the Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie.

In October 1888 the Ville de Bruxelles was launched, a 35-ton steamer with a wooden hull made from timber from the Lukolela forest.

[2] On 20.06.1889 he married Marguerite Deymann in Schaerbeek, Liebrechts joined the colony's central administration in Belgium and was put in charge of the Interior Division of the Congo Free State under governor general Camille Janssen.

It was also involved in diplomatic work at the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference, where Liebrechts was a technical delegate of the Congo Free State.

His promotion must have been due to the influence of Secretary of State Edmond van Eetvelde, who was head of the Belgian Interior and Foreign Affairs department from 1890.

Liebrechts and van Eetvelde had common views of the danger of expanding towards the Nile, which the king wanted to happen.