De Dietrich

This article covers the family of the same name. For the manufacturer of railway vehicles, see De Dietrich Ferroviaire , for the automobile companies De Dietrich (Lunéville) and De Dietrich (Niederbronn) .

Partial view of the iron hammer in Jaegerthal

De Dietrich (originally: von Dietrich ) is an industrial dynasty in northern Alsace (Lower Alsace). The family originally came from Strasbourg and was (like many later industrial families in Alsace) of Protestant denomination.

history

In 1684 Johann (Jean) Dietrich acquired the Eisenhammer founded by Adam Jäger in Jägertal near Reichshofen near Hagenau . In 1719 he was made baron of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .

In 1761, Jean Dietrich , the grandson of the company founder, was given to King Louis XV for his military services . raised to the nobility . Now Jean de Dietrich bought the estate of Reichshofen and the associated water rights from Franz von Lothringen and began to build an iron industry in Alsace.

De Dietrich automobile from 1898

Cast furnace from De Dietrich, original around 1900

Between 1767 and 1771 he took over or founded the smithy (La Schmelz) in Reichshofen and the iron hammers at Rauschendwasser near Reichshofen, in Bad Niederbronn , Zinsweiler , Rothau , Mutterhausen and Merzweiler .

Even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentioned in the notes from his Strasbourg studies the forging of Niederbronn , led by Frédéric de Dietrich . There the young Goethe was interested in mineralogy , chemistry and alchemy (possibly later processing in the "witch's kitchen" of his Faust ).

Friedrich von Dietrich was mayor of Strasbourg at the beginning of the French Revolution and died on the guillotine in 1793 during the Jacobin reign of terror .

From 1848 the de Dietrich family was involved in railway construction, known as De Dietrich Ferroviaire . Later cast iron stoves were also produced in Bad Niederbronn .

In 1896, Eugène de Dietrich acquired a license from Amédée Bollée fils to manufacture automobiles . In 1897 production began in the two plants De Dietrich in Niederbronn and De Dietrich in Lunéville .

De Dietrich Eurailbus model in the Neoplan Museum Stuttgart-Möhringen

In 1996 De Dietrich took over OERTLI , a manufacturer of burners, and in 1999 Interdomo GmbH Emsdetten for the development and production of condensing boilers and steel boilers. In 2000 the De Dietrich Group was taken over by the Société Industrielle du Hanau (SIH) with the approval of the management. In 2004 the De Dietrich Thermique group merged with the Dutch condensing boiler manufacturer Remeha; The De-Dietrich-Remeha group merged in 2009 with the English Baxi group to form BDR Thermea BV with headquarters in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands .

De Dietrich's household appliances division was integrated into the Spanish Fagor group, which had to file for bankruptcy in 2013 due to the economic crisis in southern Europe.

family members

• Dominikus Dietrich (1620–1692), lawyer and mayor of Strasbourg
• Friedrich von Dietrich (1748–1793), natural scientist and mayor of Strasbourg
• Eugène de Dietrich (1844–1918), industrialist and member of the German Reichstag
• Baron Albert de Dietrich (1861–1956), creator of the Léonardsau
• Suzanne de Dietrich (1891–1981), Protestant theologian

swell

• Fabien Sabatès: Bugatti . (Translated from English by Christina Zöllner). Vienna [ua]: Lechner, 1993. ISBN 3-85049-033-5

Web links

Commons : De Dietrich  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home appliances. Retrieved December 23, 2013 .