Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe (born September 25, 1846 in La Villette (Paris) ; † November 24, 1919 in Ecquevilly , Yvelines department ), born Salomon Henry Deutsch , was a French industrialist and patron .
family
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe was born in 1846 as the son of the Jewish businessman Alexandre Deutsch (* 1815 in Lorraine ), who set up an oil refinery in Pantin and thus laid the foundation for the future corporate empire. Henry and his younger brother Émile adopted the name suffix de la Meurthe , to commemorate the origin of their ancestors from the Meurthe area . Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe and his wife Marguerite Ida Caroline Raba (1854–1941) had a daughter, Suzanne Deutsch de La Meurthe (1892–1937), who became known as a patron.
Life
From 1877 Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe and his brother Émile ran their father's company, which was initially called A. Deutsch et ses Fils and later Les Fils de A. Deutsch . They developed an oil company that owned refineries in France, Spain, and Austria-Hungary . After Henry's death, Émile brought the company into a joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell in 1922 , the newly created company was called Société des Pétroles Jupiter .
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe was one of the founders of the Automobile Club de France in 1895 together with Albert de Dion . He was particularly interested in airships and powered aircraft . He offered several prizes for special achievements, such as the German price of 100,000 francs in 1900 for the first flight of an “aircraft lighter than air” (airship) between Saint-Cloud and the Eiffel Tower in less than 30 minutes. In 1904 he and Ernest Archdeacon awarded the Grand Prix d'Aviation for "aircraft heavier than air". He also commissioned the construction of the airships Ville de Paris (1903) and the Ville de Paris (1906) .
On May 20, 1911, German was injured in an accident involving a monoplane, flown by Louis Émile Train, on the airfield of Issy-les-Moulineaux . He was guest of honor at the "Course aérienne Paris-Madrid 1911", a flight competition from Paris to Madrid. During the accident, the grandstand collapsed, leading to a complicated fracture of a leg of Prime Minister Ernest Monis and the death of War Minister Maurice Berteaux the following day.
In the same year, Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe took over the aircraft manufacturer Nieuport and renamed it Société Anonyme des Établissements Nieuport . The Nieuport 11 and Nieuport 17 are considered to be the company's most successful designs . The company later merged with Astra, a balloon manufacturer, to form Nieuport-Astra .
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe was also active as a composer and created, among other things, the opera Icare (1911).
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe died on November 24, 1919 at Château de Romainville in Ecquevilly , Yvelines department .
Honors
- Knight of the Legion of Honor , from 1912 Commander of the Legion of Honor
- Commander of the Franz Joseph Order
- Commander of the Order of Isabel la Católica
Individual evidence
- ↑ Document search at LEONORE (French)
- ↑ "AIRSHIP KILLS WAR MINISTER; PREMIER HURT; Plunges Among French Cabinet Party at Start of Paris to Madrid Air Race", NEW YORK TIMES May 22, 1911 (Eng.)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | German de la Meurthe, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henri German; Salomon Henry German |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French industrialist and one of the founders of the Automobile Club de France |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Villette (Paris) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1919 |
| Place of death | Ecquevilly , Yvelines department |