Jean Dollfus
Jean Dollfus (born September 25, 1800 in Mulhouse ; † May 21, 1887 ibid) was an Alsatian factory owner and politician. He was Mayor of Mulhouse from 1863 to 1869. From 1877 to 1887 he was a member of the constituency Elsass 2 (Mulhouse in Alsace) and in 1881 and 1884 he was the age president of the German Reichstag - Alsace was then part of the German Empire . Since he did not take part in the constituent sessions of the Reichstag, he was represented by Helmuth Graf von Moltke .
From 1826 he headed the Dollfus-Mieg textile company (DMC) and from 1854 had a workers' settlement built in this capacity , which at the end of the 1870s comprised almost a thousand houses. After his younger brother Émile Dollfus (1805-1858) had already been mayor of Mulhouse in the 1840s, he himself was elected to this office in 1863.
Jean Dollfus is the maternal grandfather of the composer Charles Koechlin .
literature
- Wolfgang Zorn : Dollfus, Jean. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 61 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eugen Waldner: Dollfus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 740-743.
Web links
- Dollfus, Johann in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Johann Dollfus . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 297.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dollfus, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dollfus, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Alsatian factory owner and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1887 |
| Place of death | Mulhouse |