Peter Georg d'Orville

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Peter Georg d'Orville, entrepreneur and mayor of Offenbach

Peter Georg d'Orville (born August 10, 1783 in Offenbach am Main ; † March 24, 1858 ibid) was the first and third mayor of Offenbach am Main. He came from a banking and entrepreneurial family with Huguenot roots.

Live and act

Peter Georg d'Orville was born as the son of the private banker and entrepreneur Jean Georg d'Orville (1747-1811) and his wife Jeanne Rahel Bernard (1751-1822). The ancestors of the d'Orville family were French religious refugees who had settled in Frankfurt am Main two generations earlier as bankers. The d'Orville family initially chose Offenbach am Main as their summer residence and were married to the Bernard entrepreneurial family, who already ran the Fürstlich Isenburgsche privileged snuff factory in the city . After his death in 1811, his father Jean Georg d'Orville bequeathed the ownership of the tobacco factory to his son Peter Georg. In 1812 Peter Georg and his partner Jakob Philipp founded a branch of the Offenbach tobacco factory in Regensburg for customs reasons, which later developed into the main branch. In 1821 he was one of the founding members of the Offenbach Chamber of Commerce . From 1835 to 1841 he was a member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

family

On July 19, 1807, Peter Georg d'Orville and Maria Mimi Fuchs-Bernard (born September 6, 1788, † September 17, 1863 in Offenbach am Main) married, she was the adopted daughter of Peter Bernard and daughter of the finance council and banker Johann Georg Fuchs and the Jacobea Thurneysen . The couple had several children including:

  • Theodor (* 1816; † 1860), merchant in Offenbach ∞ Agathe Alewyn
  • Jeanette (1810–1859) ∞ Walter Gustav Alewyn (1810–1879)

politics

Peter Georg d'Orville was appointed the first mayor of Offenbach am Main in 1823 . His first term of office, which was still honorary at the time, lasted from August 1, 1823 to January 8, 1826. His second term of office began on December 31, 1834 and ended on March 19, 1837. During this time, the continuous upswing of pre-industrial manufacturers began in Offenbach industrial companies that later shaped the city as a factory town.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 286.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 655.

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personal data
SURNAME Orville, Peter Georg d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur; Politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1858
Place of death Offenbach am Main