Henri Albert Oscar Lucien Marie Ghislain Story (27 November 1897 – 5 December 1944) was a Belgian businessman and liberal politician in Ghent.

The Ghent association at that moment was severely divided and many saw in Henri Story, who was a relative newcomer, a new force which could renew and restructure the party and ensure its unity.

Story's ideas for democratisation and his striving towards a people party required the acceptance of Flemish as an equivalent language to French.

Liberalism was, for Henri, the key to more prosperity and freedom for the entire population, and therefore it was obvious that the language of the majority of the people must prevail.

In this he followed the vision of his own father, who between 1880 and 1890 had been an active member of the Vlaamsche Liberale Kiesbond (E: Flemish Liberal Voters League).

He emphasized the strict independence of magistrates, the protection of minorities by means of a representation in the parliament, the rights and the equivalence of women or the combination of a tempered free market economy with social security for everyone.

The increasing threat of war in Europe leads to a range activities which have to do with protection of the people of Ghent, such as supplies and support to the families of the mobilised.

During the first months of 1940, representatives of the political parties, the industry, the social organisations and the university met on a regular base under his chairmanship to prepare Ghent for a possible war.

At the outbreak of World War II, burgomaster Vander Stegen flees to France but Story stayed in Ghent as head of civil protection, he was drafted 16 May, and has to join his regiment.

At the surface he behaved as a strictly neutral citizen, but from the start of the Nazi occupation he committed himself to help the prisoners of war, the deportees and the people forced to work in Germany.

He founded the Ghent department of the information service Zero and is provincial agent for the Socrates group which supports people hiding from the Nazis and organised flight routes.

His contacts in the financial and industrial world and his leading position within freemasonry (as chairing master of Le Septentrion) also meant an important support for the resistance movement.

He became a member of the Masonic Lodge Liberté chérie (French: "Cherished Liberty") inside Hut 6 of Emslandlager VII (Esterwegen).