Boch (merchant family)
Boch , from 1892 from Boch , from 1907 also from Boch-Galhau (for René von Boch and his direct descendants) is the name of an old merchant family from Audun-le-Tiche (German-Oth, in Lorraine , France ) that still lives today Owns the ceramic works Villeroy & Boch AG together with the Villeroy de Galhau family .
history
The progenitor François Boch (1700–1754) founded the porcelain manufacture " Jean-François Boch et Frères " in Audun-le-Tiche in 1748 . In 1801 Jean-François Boch bought the former Benedictine abbey in Mettlach on the Saar. A modern mechanized crockery factory was opened in it. With it, Boch realized some of his ideas of machines to manufacture his goods, which marked the beginning of mass production . In 1836 the family business was expanded to form " Villeroy & Boch Ceramic Works " by merging with the rival company founded by Nicolas Villeroy in Vaudrevange in 1791 . Mettlach Abbey is still used today as the corporate headquarters of Villeroy & Boch.
Eugen von Boch (1809–1898), fourth generation partner and husband of Octavie Villeroy, was raised to the royal Prussian nobility on May 15, 1892 in Danzig with a diploma from August 10, 1892 ( marble palace near Potsdam ) as von Boch . After Nicolas Adolphe de Galhau , grandson of Nicolas Villeroy and husband of Sophie Villeroy, inherited his inheritance, including his possessions in Wallerfangen (Galhau Castle) and the Linslerhof, to the two entrepreneurial families Villeroy and Boch (his nephews Emmanuel Villeroy and René von Boch ) inherited, with the stipulation that the name Galhau was to be used in the future, the family name for René von Boch , son of Eugen von Boch and the Octavie Villeroy, according to the Prussian association of names and coats of arms with a diploma from September 14, 1907 in Wilhelmshöhe changed to from Boch-Galhau , while the Villeroy family adopted the name Villeroy de Galhau . ( François Villeroy de Galhau comes from the latter family ). The change of the family name did not affect the two brothers of René von Boch , Edmund von Boch (1845-1931) and Alfred von Boch (1860-1943).
family members
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François Boch (1700–1754), iron caster, founder of the company “ Jean-François Boch et Frères ” (1748) in Lorraine
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Pierre-Joseph Boch (1737–1818), son of the company's founder and owner of the company " Jean-François Boch et Frères "
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Jean-François Boch (1782–1858), merged with Nicolas Villeroy , third generation partner in the family company “ Villeroy & Boch Ceramic Works ”
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Eugen von Boch (1809–1898), 4th generation partner and head of the family business, landowner and Prussian secret councilor, member of the provincial state parliament, married to Octavie Villeroy (1823–1899)
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René von Boch-Galhau (1843–1908), 5th generation partner, Prussian Privy Councilor of Commerce
- Martha von Boch-Galhau (1880–1961), wife of Chancellor Franz von Papen
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Roger von Boch-Galhau (1873–1917), 6th generation partner and general director of the family company, royal Prussian cavalry officer and commander
- Renata von Boch-Galhau (1907–1963)
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Franz Egon von Boch-Galhau (1909–1981), 7th generation partner, landowner and farmer and forester
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Roger von Boch-Galhau (1935–2017), 8th generation partner
- René von Boch -Galhau (* 1972), artist
- Helen von Boch-Galhau (1938–2007), designer
- Wendelin von Boch-Galhau (* 1942), 8th generation partner, former chairman of the board of directors and former chairman of the supervisory board of the family company, landowner and farmer and forest manager, hotelier
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Roger von Boch-Galhau (1935–2017), 8th generation partner
- Monika von Boch-Galhau (1915–1993), artist
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Luitwin von Boch-Galhau (1875–1932), 6th generation partner and director of the family business,
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Luitwin von Boch-Galhau (1906–1988), General Director 1932–1972, main shareholder in the 7th generation, married to Béatrice von Boch-Galhau (1914–2011)
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Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau (* 1936), 8th generation, former CEO, honorary member of the family company's supervisory board
- Carmen von Boch-Kivu (* 1964), artist and designer, 9th generation shareholder
- Michel von Boch-Galhau (* 1968), main shareholder of the family company
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Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau (* 1936), 8th generation, former CEO, honorary member of the family company's supervisory board
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Luitwin von Boch-Galhau (1906–1988), General Director 1932–1972, main shareholder in the 7th generation, married to Béatrice von Boch-Galhau (1914–2011)
- Alfred von Boch (1860–1943)
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René von Boch-Galhau (1843–1908), 5th generation partner, Prussian Privy Councilor of Commerce
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Victor Boch (1817–1920), entrepreneur and owner of the ceramics company Boch Frères in Belgium
- Anna Boch (1848–1936), Belgian painter and art patron and art collector
- Elisa Boch (1853–1954)
- Eugène Boch (1855–1941), Belgian painter, friend of Van Gogh, founding member of the artist group " Les XX "
- Margarita von Boch (* 1951), interpreter and patron, founder of Kinderhilfe Saar eV
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Eugen von Boch (1809–1898), 4th generation partner and head of the family business, landowner and Prussian secret councilor, member of the provincial state parliament, married to Octavie Villeroy (1823–1899)
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Jean-François Boch (1782–1858), merged with Nicolas Villeroy , third generation partner in the family company “ Villeroy & Boch Ceramic Works ”
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Pierre-Joseph Boch (1737–1818), son of the company's founder and owner of the company " Jean-François Boch et Frères "
buildings
St. Joseph Chapel (originally located in Wallerfangen; Eugen von Boch had it demolished there in 1879 and rebuilt in Mettlach in 1882 above the von Boch family crypt)
Siebenbrunnen Castle (Luxembourg)
Villeroy de Galhau Castle in Wallerfangen
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XVIII, page 12, volume 95 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Erhard Gruner: History of the Boch family , Saarbrücken 1968.
- Walter Lauer: Boch, Saarland. Industrial family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 339 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Family pages of a descendant of Pierre-Joseph Boch
- Anna Boch.com - website about the art collector and painter
- Eugene Boch.com - Website about the painter and friend of Vincent van Gogh
- The Boch family in the Rheinische Geschichte portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Ackermann, Markus Plate, Arist Schlippe, Torsten Groth: Large German family businesses: Generational succession, family strategy and corporate development . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2011, p. 418, note 1
- ^ Announcement about the completion of the restoration of the chapel on www.saarland.de, accessed on July 1, 2013