Jean-Baptiste Migeon
Jean-Baptiste Migeon (born October 15, 1768 in Braux , † December 28, 1845 in Paris ) was a French businessman and politician .
Life
He first trained as a master blacksmith and then ran a company in Grandvillers . In 1803 he came to Aachen . With his brother Jean Vincent Migeon from Charleville and the Alsace engineer Laurenz Jecker he founded a company for the industrial production of pins from brass . Laurenz Jecker brought in patents for machines and a recently cheaply acquired former monastery courtyard in Eilfschornsteinstrasse, the Klosterrath Refugium . The company was initially very successful and supplied the entire French Empire . In 1807, however, there was a crisis, as a result of which Jecker left the company and sold the factory to the Migeon brothers.
On July 5, 1811, the Migeon brothers entered into a partnership with the Aachen master copper hammer and brass producers Johann Josef and Johann Heinrich Schervier . Shortly before, on March 3, 1811, Johann Heinrich Schervier had married her sister Maria Aloysia (Louise) Victoire Migeon. The company now operated as " Migeon et Schervier frères ".
After the fall of Napoleon, the Migeon brothers gradually withdrew from the business and returned to France. In 1816, Jean Vincent left the company entirely and the Schervier brothers took over two thirds of the factory property in Elfschornsteinstrasse and the associated rights, which had previously belonged to the Migeon siblings alone. In 1823, Jean-Baptiste finally sold his remaining shares in the property and company.
Jean-Baptiste Migeon then went into politics and was first mayor of Mézières . On November 24, 1827 he was elected member of the Grand College of the Haut-Rhin department with 103 of 140 votes cast and moved to Paris . He took the place of the liberal opposition and participated in the address of 221 against the minister Jules de Polignac . On June 23, 1830 he was re-elected in the constituency of Belfort with 80 out of 130 votes. He made some concessions to the July monarchy and withdrew from political life after the elections of 1831.
family
Jean-Baptiste Migeon was married to Victoire Dominé (1794–1887), with whom he had the following children:
- Laure Viellard-Migeon (1813–1899), married to François Viellard-Migeon
- Jules Migeon (1815-1868)
Franziska Schervier was his niece.
literature
- Olivier Conrad: Jean-Baptiste Migeon , in: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 46, p. 4820
- Joseph Gerhard Rey: The Schervier family and their clans (= publications of the episcopal diocesan archive Aachen 1, ZDB -ID 846757-2 ). Johannes Volk Verlag, Aachen 1936.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Migeon, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French entrepreneur and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braux |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1845 |
| Place of death | Paris |