Nicolas Adolphe de Galhau

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Nicolas Adolphe de Galhau
The castle built by Galhau in Wallerfangen, destroyed in 1944

Nicolas Adolphe de Galhau (born February 6, 1814 in Wallerfangen ; † November 23, 1889 ibid) was a German entrepreneur and politician.

Life

Galhau was born in 1814 to Henri Fulbert de Galhau and his wife Sophie Villeroy. In 1862, Galhau took over the parental estate in Wallerfangen and expanded it in the following years: The old buildings were demolished and a country palace was built in an English-style park (today von Papen Palace). In 1847 and 1848 he was a member of the First and Second United Prussian Landtag . From 1851 to 1889 Galhau was mayor of Wallerfangen. During this time he was particularly responsible for the urban expansion: on a family-owned site later named after him, the Adolphshöhe, he built a town hall and three school buildings. From 1861 to 1863 Galhau was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . In 1871 Galhau co-founded the Diekircher Actien beer brewery . From May 1 to May 27, 1881, Galhau was the acting district administrator of Saarlouis .

De Galhau died on November 23, 1889 and was buried in the family vault three days later.

family

Married couple Nicolas Adolphe de Galhau (1814–1889) and Sophie Leonie Elisabeth de Galhau (née Villeroy, 1821–1885), around 1870 (Heimatmuseum Wallerfangen)

De Galhau was married to his cousin Sophie Leonie Elisabeth Villeroy (1821-1885) since April 22, 1840. Like him, she was a grandchild of Nicolas Villeroy (1759–1843), who had founded the stoneware factory in his place of birth and since 1836, together with Jean-François Boch, he had managed the Villeroy & Boch Ceramic Works . The couple remained childless. That is why de Galhau bequeathed his estates, the Galhau Castle and the Linslerhof , which his father had acquired in 1824 , to the descendants of the Villeroy family and the von Boch family, on condition that the name Galhau be used in the future. From 1907 onwards, his nephews René von Boch-Galhau (son of Octavie Villeroy) and Emmanuel Villeroy de Galhau received permission to use the double name.

social commitment

On June 7, 1857, de Galhau founded the Sophienstiftung as a social foundation and named it after his wife. Between 1883 and 1885 he built the St. Nikolaus Hospital in Wallerfangen with the foundation. Today the foundation operates an old people's home, a children's home, a specialist clinic for geriatrics and a specialist clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Honors

  • 1850: Honorary citizen of the Wallerfangen community
  • 1880: honorary citizen of Saarlouis
  • In Wallerfangen, Adolphshöhe and Von-Galhau-Strasse bear his name, and there is a portrait bust of him in the entrance area of ​​the former mayor's office (today: the primary school building)

literature

  • Villeroy & Boch, A Quarter of a Millennium of European Industrial History 1748-1998 . Saarbrücken, 1998
  • Guido Müller: The Villeroy and de Galhau families in Saarland . Saarlouis 1991
  • Beatrix Adler: Wallerfanger stoneware . Krüger Druck + Verlag, Dillingen 1994

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Adolphe de Galhau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Volker Ackermann, Markus Plate, Arist Schlippe, Torsten Groth: Large German family businesses: Generational succession, family strategy and corporate development . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2011, p. 418, note 1
  2. Self-presentation of the Sankt-Nikolaus-Hospital ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in Wallerfangen