Albert Dufour-Féronce

Albert Dufour-Féronce (3rd from right) on the board of directors of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Compagnie (1852)

Albert Johann Markus (French Jean Mark Albert ) Dufour-Féronce (born December 20, 1798 in Leipzig , † November 12, 1861 in London ) was an entrepreneur , banker and railway pioneer .

Life

Albert Dufour-Féronce was the descendant of a Huguenot family that had lived in Leipzig since 1692 . He was the son of Jacques Ferdinand Dufour-Féronce (1766-1817) and his wife Pauline (1774-1839). His grandfather Jacques Marc Antoine Dufour-Féronce (1737–1806) was a silk wholesaler in Leipzig. Ferdinand Dufour-Féronce had been elevated to the hereditary baron status by the Saxon king in 1816 , but requested the right not to use the title for professional reasons for himself and his son. He was the owner of one of the city's most important trading companies, the silk goods store Dufour Gebr. & Co. , which mainly obtained silk goods from France and sold them to Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The company had branches in Lyon , Hamburg and Braunschweig . The family owned the Romanushaus since 1794 . Your trading vault was on the ground floor of the old trading exchange , it was the most expensive that the Leipzig council rented.

Since his father's death in 1817, Albert Dufour-Féronce has headed the trading company, which has also been buying Saxon industrial products since 1832 and shipping them overseas.

In 1835 he was one of the founders of the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie , where his nephew Friedrich Busse became operations director. He also had a decisive influence on the establishment of the first Leipziger Aktiengesellschaft, the worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig in 1836. Dufour-Féronce was also one of the founders of the Leipziger Bank in 1838 and the Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt in 1856. At Allgemeine Deutsche Credit institution he was from 1856 to 1859 "executive director". Because of his far-reaching international trade relations, he was also involved in the “ Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez ” for the construction of the Suez Canal and Dufour Gebr. & Co. also acted as an agency for Austrian Lloyd .

Public offices

From 1840 to 1846 Dufour-Féronce was a city councilor in Leipzig. From 1846 he was Consul General of Portugal.

After the electoral reform in 1848, he was nominated as a candidate by the German Association and elected to the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament for the Leipzig electoral districts 22, 23 and 24 . He held this seat until the old electoral law was reintroduced in 1850.

Honors

Among the names of the citizens of Leipzig who brought the Leipzig-Dresden Railway into being, there is also that of Dufour-Féronce on metal plates on all four sides of the railway obelisk designed in 1878 by Carl Gustav Aeckerlein (1832–1886) in the Swan Pond the Leipziger Goethestrasse.

In 1881, the former Brandweg on the edge of Leipzig's music district was renamed Dufourstraße.

painting

In 1802, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein painted Albert Dufour-Féronce as a child in the double portrait of Anne Pauline Dufour-Feronce with her son Jean Marc Albert , which was shown in 2013 in the Children's Time exhibition at the Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg .

literature

Werner Wendt: Contributions to the social history of Leipzig merchants in the 19th century using the example of Johann Marc Albert Dufour-Féronce (1798–1861), Gustav Harkort (1795–1865) and Carl Lampe (1804–1889). Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2010, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-88457

Web links

Herbert Pönicke: Dufour-Feronce, Albert Johann Markus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 177 f. ( Digitized version ).
Albert Dufour-Féronce in the Leipzig Lexicon

Individual evidence

^ Werner Wendt: Contributions to the social history of Leipzig merchants in the 19th century using the example of Johann Marc Albert Dufour-Féronce (1798–1861), Gustav Harkort (1795–1865) and Carl Lampe (1804–1889). Frankfurt (Main) 2010, p. 31 f.
↑ Compare: Moritz Busch: Turkey. Travel guide ... , Trieste 1860, after p. XXII nn .
↑ Markus Cottin et al .: Leipzig Monuments. Edited by the Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V., Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , p. 86
↑ Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 59
↑ Link to the picture ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Dufour-Féronce, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dufour-Féronce, Albert Johann Markus; Dufour-Féronce, Jean Mark Albert (full names)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German merchant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1861
Place of death	London

[1] Werner Wendt: Contributions to the social history of Leipzig merchants in the 19th century using the example of Johann Marc Albert Dufour-Féronce (1798–1861), Gustav Harkort (1795–1865) and Carl Lampe (1804–1889). Frankfurt (Main) 2010, p. 31 f.

[2] Compare: Moritz Busch: Turkey. Travel guide ... , Trieste 1860, after p. XXII nn .

[3] Markus Cottin et al .: Leipzig Monuments. Edited by the Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V., Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , p. 86

[4] Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 59

[5] Link to the picture ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2