Jean François Joseph Houdart

Jean François Joseph Houdart (* 1774 in Douai ; † July 26, 1855 ibid) was a French officer , sugar manufacturer and local politician .

Life

From the age of 17, Jean François Joseph Houdart served as a soldier in the coalition wars under Napoleon Bonaparte . During the war he was wounded three times and as an elite soldier he was a member of the Legion of Honor .

After the occupation of the city of Hanover , which began in 1803, first under the French General Mortier and then under the Maréchal d'Empire Jean Baptiste Bernadotte , Houdart married Anne Eleonore Dorette Louise, who was not even half her age and was only 15, in 1805 in the Neustadt district of Calenberg (* May 13, 1790; † February 25, 1853 in Douai), née Wagener, the daughter of the master baker Johann Bernhard Wagener and Johanne Louise Elisabeth Leue (Lewe) and at the same time the granddaughter of the baker and founder of the foundation Johann Jobst Wagener . The wedding of Houdart and his fiancée in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis was one of only 12 Franco-German marriages in Hanover and its suburbs during the French occupation.

After the conclusion of the Peace of Tilsit in July 1807, Houdart ended his military career as captain of the mounted gunners. Together with his wife he moved to France and bought the ruins of the castle in Villers-au-Tertre . There he, who was awarded the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor as Chevalier, founded “the first local French sugar beet factory ” and subsequently devoted himself primarily to the production of sugar from sugar beet.

During the reign of the Mayor- King Louis-Philippe , Houdart became mayor "Maire" of his place of residence. and received a seat in the Conseil genéral de département in 1834 before retiring in 1839.

Houdarts probably always had his Hanoverian wife by his side until she died on February 25, 1853, childless before her husband in Douai. In an obituary for Jean François Joseph Houdart, who died shortly after her on June 26, 1855, she was described as "a young Hanoverian woman who was excellent with great esprit and education".

Since the couple had no descendants, the foundation of Madame Houdart's grandfather came into effect in 1853, the Johann Jobst Wagenersche Foundation , which still exists today .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Maren Dieke : "Since now the distress, decay and poverty [...] go all the more to the heart" / traces of life of a donor in Hanover , in Reinhold Fahlbusch , Ralf Hoburg (ed. ): "Until here ..." The Wagenersche Foundation in Hanover in words and pictures , Hanover: MediaLIT Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813093-6-2 and ISBN 3-9813093-6-7 , p. 36– 41; here: p. 39ff.
^ Klaus Mlynek : Napoleonic Wars , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 459f.
^ Almanach Royal et National pour l'An MDCCCXXXV, présenté à Sa Majesté et aux Princes et Princesses de la Famille Royale (in French), Paris: A. Guyot et Sribe, 1835, p. 524; Digitized via Google books

personal data
SURNAME	Houdart, Jean François Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French officer, entrepreneur and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1774
PLACE OF BIRTH	Douai
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1855
Place of death	Douai

[Der_letzte_Verwandte-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Maren Dieke : "Since now the distress, decay and poverty [...] go all the more to the heart" / traces of life of a donor in Hanover , in Reinhold Fahlbusch , Ralf Hoburg (ed. ): "Until here ..." The Wagenersche Foundation in Hanover in words and pictures , Hanover: MediaLIT Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813093-6-2 and ISBN 3-9813093-6-7 , p. 36– 41; here: p. 39ff.

[2] Klaus Mlynek : Napoleonic Wars , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 459f.

[3] Almanach Royal et National pour l'An MDCCCXXXV, présenté à Sa Majesté et aux Princes et Princesses de la Famille Royale (in French), Paris: A. Guyot et Sribe, 1835, p. 524; Digitized via Google books