Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort , (born September 17, 1814 in Châteauroux , † July 29, 1892 in Paris ), was a French politician.

Life

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort received his education at the École polytechnique in Paris. In 1835 he became an engineer in the administration of the tobacco monopoly. He was a railway expert and acted as general secretary of the Railway Commission founded in 1842 as well as government commissioner for various railway companies . At that time he published:

• Lettres sur une mission en Angleterre , 1834
• Report au ministre des travaux publics , 1843
• Statistique des voies de communication de France , 1845
• Études sur les voies de communications , 2 vol., 1847

The Hérault department elected Teisserenc to the Chamber of Deputies in 1846 ; however, as a result of the February Revolution of 1848, he retired into private life. He was then one of the co-founders of the Paris- Lyon - Méditerranée railway company .

In February 1871 Teisserenc became a member of the National Assembly , where he initially joined the right center and later the left center. He voted for the abolition of the exile laws and the entire republican state constitution. Adolphe Thiers appointed him Minister of Commerce and Agriculture on April 23, 1872, but Teisserenc resigned from this office on May 25, 1873 and sided with the conservative Republicans. In January 1876 he was elected a member of the Senate . From March 9, 1876 to May 17, 1877 he was again Minister of Commerce. On December 13, 1877, he took over the same portfolio in Jules Dufaure's cabinet . In 1878 he opened the Paris Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, which he had already suggested to be held in 1876. He resigned his ministerial office when, as a result of the change in the presidency of the Republic on February 5, 1879, Waddington took the place of Dufaures at the head of the newly constituted cabinet. He then went to Vienna as ambassador , but was dismissed from this post in April 1880 due to health problems. In 1882 he was again a member of the Senate, in which he defended the republican form of government against the movement of Georges Boulanger . He died in Paris in 1892 at the age of 77.

literature

• Teisserenc de Bort (Pierre Edmond) , in: Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon , 13th edition, 1882–87, Vol. 15, p. 525.
• Teisserenc de Bort, Pierre Edmond , in: Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition, 1910-11, vol. 26, p. 508.