Norbert Metz (politician, 1811)

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Jean-Joseph Norbert Metz (born February 2, 1811 in Luxembourg , † November 28, 1885 in Eich ) was a Luxembourg politician and engineer. With his brothers Charles and Auguste, he defined political and economic life in Luxembourg in the middle of the 19th century.

Metz was the leading Quarante Huitards , the radical liberals responsible for the promulgation of the Luxembourg constitution in 1848. He was appointed by the king to represent the canton of Capellen for the assembly of estates in 1842. He was then elected to represent Capellen at the Constituent Assembly in 1848. After the first elections, Metz was appointed general administrator for finances and general administrator for military affairs in pro- Belgian and anti- German confederation affairs.

On May 21, 1834, he married the 21-year-old Marie-Barbe-Philippe-Eugénie Tesch, who had three children before she died on January 29, 1845. On November 7, 1850, he married Tesch's eighteen-year-old cousin Marie-Suzanne-Albertine Tesch. One of his children was Émile Metz.

Industrialist

When his two brothers died within a short time (Charles in 1853 and Auguste in 1854), Norbert Metz withdrew from politics in order to devote himself entirely to his diverse business activities. Metz was a miller and in 1837 was head of the mill consortium of the Société d'Industrie . In Arlon he owned part of a tobacco processing factory . With his brother Auguste Metz, he ran the Berbourg foundry from 1837. In 1843 he received permission to process low-grade iron ore, Minette . Four years later the ore was used in the coke ovens of their own foundry in Eich. Several inventions by Henry Bessemer , a British engineer, gave a boost to steel processing by him and his brother. The Metz foundry, later renamed Arbed Esch-Schiffanlage, was founded in 1871. After the death of Norbert Metz, the Luxembourg steel group ARBED was founded in 1911 through a merger with other foundries .

In addition, through the non-profit organization, he and his family have contributed a lot to the establishment of the Eich Hospital.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mersch . 1963, p. 429 .
  2. ↑ Thewes . 2006, p. 16 .
  3. ↑ Mersch . 1963, p. 485 .
  4. ↑ Mémorial A n ° 38 de 1848. In: Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. April 24, 1848, accessed August 26, 2018 (French).
  5. ↑ Thewes . 2006, p. 17 .
  6. ↑ a b Mersch . 1963, p. 373 .
personal data
SURNAME Metz, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metz, Jean-Joseph Norbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1885
Place of death Calibration