Prosper Joseph Maria Piette

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Prosper Joseph Maria Piette (born March 13, 1806 in Strasbourg , † December 11, 1872 in Bubentsch near Prague ) was a paper manufacturer.

Life

Dillinger paper factory in the middle of the 19th century

Prosper Piette was the son of paper manufacturer Jean Louis Piette and his wife Anna Gabriele Piette, née Wurmser. Little is known about Prosper Piette's youth. He presumably received technical and chemical training, since at the age of 27, after the death of his father, he took over the Dillingen paper mill together with his brother Louis Piette . While his brother represented the mill externally, he took over the technical management. Together with his brother, he received a Prussian patent in 1837 for a rotatable rag cooker , which they made available to Bryan Donkin & Co.

After the company was converted into a stock corporation , Piette left the family business in 1847 and settled in Kaisermühle, Vorder-Owenetz municipality in Bohemia . In 1860 there was a lawsuit with the Dillinger Hütte about the use of water by the Prims . The paper mill needed the prim's clean water, the hut needed water power. In expectation of losing the process, the smelter bought all available shares and after liquidation of the paper mill the same in 1864 for 56400 thalers. The operation was then discontinued. After consulting work, he leased the Kaisermühle in Bubentsch and began the industrial production of cigarette paper . From 1860 to 1864 he also ran a straw factory , which, however, had to be closed after a digester explosion. In 1865 another cigarette paper factory opened in Nieder-Marschendorf near Freiheit . In Prague he founded Austria's first wallpaper factory .

family

Prosper Piette married Margarethe Elisabeth Nikolay from Metz . The marriage resulted in four sons who took over the paper mill after the death of their father.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frieder Schmidt:  Piette, Prosper Joseph Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 434 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Lehnert, Aloys: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968.
personal data
SURNAME Piette, Prosper Joseph Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Paper manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1872
Place of death Bubentsch near Prague