Jean Louis Piette

Dillinger paper mill in the middle of the 19th century

Piette's director's house in Paul-Desfozzez-Strasse (formerly Lindenstrasse), named after Desfozzez, who later resided and was director of the hut. Today the building is used as a day care center for the Dillinger Hütte .

The right plaque in the Defrance crypt commemorates Piette and his wife Anna Gabriele

Jean Louis Piette (born June 29, 1767 in Vielsalm ; † March 23, 1833 in Dillingen / Saar ) was a Franco-German paper manufacturer.

Life

Jean Louis Piette served in the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and was appointed administrator general of the military magazines in Strasbourg . He rose to the rank of guard general and acquired the title of "de Rivage". Between 1805 and 1810 he bought land near Benfeld and began making paper in a paper mill . Around 1815 he gave up the land and moved to the Prussian town of Dillingen / Saar , where in 1821 he acquired land and the Dillingen paper mill . In 1827 he handed over the management of his mill to his son Louis Piette . After his death, Louis Piette and his brother Prosper Joseph Maria Piette took over the joint management of the mill.

family

Jean Louis Piette married Anna Gabriele Wurmser from Strasbourg around 1802, the daughter of the landowner Valentin Wurmser . The marriage resulted in another son in addition to Louis and Prosper. The family's daughters were married to men from the Defrance family.

literature

• Fritz Hellwig: Louis Piette . In: Saarländische Lebensbilder, Volume 4, Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1989, pp. 102-106.

Footnotes

1. ↑ www.dillinger.de ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Lehnert, Aloys: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968.