Albert Dufour from Féronce

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Albert Dufour of Féronce, left, with Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth , right (1932)

Carl Heinrich Albert Freiherr Dufour von Féronce (until 1932 Dufour-Féronce ; born May 14, 1868 in London , † February 3, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat and Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations .

Life

Albert Dufour von Féronce was the son of the Leipzig and London merchant Ferdinand Dufour-Féronce (1835–1889) and his wife Maria Victoire nee. Lamp († 1896). His paternal grandfather was the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker Albert Dufour-Féronce (1798–1861), his maternal grandfather was the Leipzig entrepreneur and art patron Carl Lampe (1804–1889). As co-founders of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Compagnie, both grandfathers were pioneers of the railway industry.

The businessman and co-owner of the company his grandfather Carl lamp ( E. Sachse & Co. factory essential oils Leipzig and Liesing in Vienna and Brückner, Lampe en & Co. drug wholesale Berlin Leipzig Hamburg) joined in 1919 as Speaker of the Foreign Trade Office of the Foreign Office in the diplomatic service . In 1920 he became secret legation councilor at the German embassy in London, in 1922 counselor and in 1923 ambassador . In 1926 he was transferred to temporary retirement. From 1927 to 1932 he was Under-Secretary General of the League of Nations. In 1932 he was again envoy to Belgrade until he was retired in 1933.

His great-grandfather Jacques Ferdinand Dufour-Féronce was raised to the status of hereditary baron by the Saxon king in 1816. Because great-grandfather and grandfather were involved in trading, Jacques Ferdinand Dufour-Féronce asked for the right not to use the title for himself and his son. Since the title of nobility was apparently significant for a career in the diplomatic service, Dufour-Féronce in 1932 was the first in the family to adopt the name "Freiherr Dufour von Féronce". Since the legal situation regarding the expiry of the title if not used was not clear, the Foreign Office obtained a legal opinion from the Saxon government. Thereupon the authorization to use this name was granted to Carl Heinrich Albert Freiherr Dufour von Féronce, his wife Freifrau respectively and adopted daughter Freiin respectively on July 16, 1932.

Albert Dufour von Féronce was married to Sophie Pauline, born on October 11, 1892. Meyer (born March 30, 1873 in Leipzig; † 1964), daughter of mathematics professor Adolph Mayer (1839–1908) and sister of the banker and partner in the banking house Meyer & Co. Christian Adolph Meyer (1874–1946). Since the couple had no children, they adopted the two children Paul Gustav Moritz Cäsar (born September 19, 1895; fallen in 1916) and Anna Hedwig (born January 16, 1899). In 1953, Sophie Dufour von Féronce handed over the correspondence of the Dufour-Féronce family to the Leipzig City Archives since 1777.

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 , pp. 31-35.
  • Johannes Hürter (edit.): Biographical manual of the German foreign service. 1871-1945. (Volume 1, A-F), ed. from the Historical Service of the Federal Foreign Office. Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 , p. 470.
  • Ursula Fuhrich-Grubert: Carl Heinrich Albert Freiherr Dufour von Féronce. In: 100 Years of the German Huguenot Association. 1890-1990. History - people - documents - pictures (= conference proceedings of the German Huguenot Association, No. 10). German Huguenot Association, Bad Karlshafen 1990, ISBN 3-9802515-0-0 , pp. 207-212.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Degeners Who is it? A collection of around 18,000 biographies with information about origin, family, curriculum vitae, publications and works, favorite occupation, membership in societies, address and other notices of general interest . 10th edition. Degener, Berlin 1935.
  • Hermann Aellen (Hrsg.): Swiss contemporary lexicon (= Dictionnaire suisse des contemporains). 2nd edition. Gotthelf-Verlag, Bern 1932.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c City History Museum Leipzig: Painting and document with information on Carl Heinrich Dufour-Féronce, inv. L / 2/2007/7
  2. ^ 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. 33.
  3. ↑ a b Harry Graf Kessler: Das Tagebuch 1880–1937 (= publications of the German Schiller Society, Volume 50), Volume 7, 1919–1923, ed. by Angela Reinthal. Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7681-9817-2 , p. 889
  4. ↑ Johannes Hohlfeld: Leipzig families. Volume 1 (= genealogical table of the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig, Volume 10), Central Office for German Personal and Family History, Leipzig 1933, p. 103
  5. ^ Michel Espagne, Katharina Middell, Matthias Middell: Archive and memory. Studies on intercultural transmission. (= German-French cultural library, volume 13). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-934565-30-1 , p. 287 f.
personal data
SURNAME Dufour from Féronce, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dufour von Féronce, Albert Freiherr; Dufour-Féronce, Albert (name until 1932); Dufour von Féronce, Carl Heinrich Albert Freiherr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1945
Place of death Berlin