Boch (merchant family)

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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

Villeroy & Boch headquarters in the former Mettlach Abbey

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

Pierre-Joseph Boch (1737-1818)
Jean-François Boch (1782-1858)
Eugen von Boch and his wife Octavie, b. Villeroy
René von Boch-Galhau (1843–1908)

buildings

literature

Web links

Commons : Villeroy & Boch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Announcement about the completion of the restoration of the chapel on www.saarland.de, accessed on July 1, 2013