DE DIETRICH family

History

1684: Jean Dietrich acquires the forging mill of Jaegerthal.

1719: The family obtains the title of baron of the Holy roman Empire.

1761: Jean Dietrich, grandson of the precedent, are anobli by Louis XV. He becomes the land great landowner of Alsace by the acquisition of seigniories and builds an industrial empire by the acquisition or the construction of forging mills and blast furnaces.

1778: Louis XVI grants Jean DE DIETRICH a mark in the shape of hunting horn to protect its production from the counterfeits. This symbol of quality is today still the logo of the DE DIETRICH Group.

1792: Philippe-Frederic DE DIETRICH (wire of Jean), first constitutional mayor of Strasbourg, order a patriotic song with the captain Mullet of Isle which composes " the Marseillaise ".

1804: After the storm of the French revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte assistance the DE DIETRICH family to rebuild a family and independent company.

1848: DE DIETRICH approaches the industrial era by gradually forsaking the production of cast iron and finished irons and by transforming its forging mills into engineering departments of railway and mechanical material.

1870: After the annexation of the Alsace-Lorraine by the Germany, the DE DIETRICH family decides to remain on the spot. This choice obliges it to diversify manufacture to adapt to a German market excluding the company from the railway field. The company turns to the production of durable equipment and consumer goods - stoves, cookers, furniture out of wooden, baths cast-iron enamelled - urban or industrial - trams, stills, special coaches -.

1896: DE DIETRICH launches out in automotive engineering under license Amédée Bollée, then recruiting in 1902 Ettore Bugatti for the design and Emile Mathis for marketing.

1905: DE DIETRICH gives up automobile manufacture to be devoted, with the wire of the decades, with the mechanical engineering, the production of material of railroad, of equipment for chemical industry, appliances heating central, then of equipment of kitchen and railway trackside equipment.

1992: DE DIETRICH takes the control of the group Cogifer, specialized in the fixed railway installations, and yields the control of its electric household appliances activity to Thomson, repurchased since by the Spanish group Fagor.

1995: DE DIETRICH yields the control of its activity of travelling railway material (factory DE DIETRICH Ferroviaire of Reichshoffen) to Alstom.

2002: DE DIETRICH yields the control of its subsidiary company Cogifer to the German group Vossloh.

Inheritance

The history of the DE DIETRICH family is related to that of the France and the industrial Europe since the XVIIIe century. In parallel, the DE DIETRICH company has been a major actor of the Alsatian economic life for more than three centuries.

Because of long continuity of historical, family and technical information, the DE DIETRICH inheritance is rich and varied. DE DIETRICH Association has as a main mission of preserving it and of developing it; this mission was recognized of public utility by order of the prefect of the June 16th 1996.

The Association DE DIETRICH established its seat with the Castle of Reichshoffen, built in 1770 per Jean DE DIETRICH. Sit of the head office of the Group, it kept all its character of the 18th century and is classified Historic building.

The castle shelters all the files and nearly 54.000 plans and 1200 photographic plates out of glass of railway and automobile constructions. Gallery of portraits, objects of collection, " woodworks of Marseillaise" , old fabrics and works, car built by DE DIETRICH in 1898 and restored in 1996, stoves out of cast iron and cast-iron plates of chimney are elements of the DE DIETRICH inheritance preserved at the Castle of Reichshoffen.

Genealogy

Itches Dietrich (1549-), middle-class man of Strasbourg X Anne Heller | |- > Jean Dietrich (1559-1642), adviser and merchant X Agnes Meyer | |- > Dominique Dietrich (1620-1694), amnestre of Strasbourg X Ursule Wencker (1627-1662) | |- > Jean-Nicolas Dietrich (1688-1726), merchant, banker X Marie-bore Kniebs (1665-1747) | |- > Jean DE DIETRICH (1719-1795), count of the Round of applause of the Rock X Amélie Hermanny (1729-1766) | |- > Jean DE DIETRICH (1746-1805) | X Louise-Sophie de Glaubitz (1751-1806) | |- > Philippe-Frederic DE DIETRICH (1748-1793), mayor of Strasbourg X Sybille-Louise Ochs (1755-1806) | |- > Jean-Albert DE DIETRICH (1773-1806), general adviser of the Low-Rhine X Amélie de Berckheim (1776-1855) | |- > Amélie DE DIETRICH (1799-1854) | X Guillaume de Turckheim (1785-1831), major | |- > Baron Albert DE DIETRICH (1802-1888), Master of the forging mills | X 1828 Octavie von Stein (1801-1839) | | | |- > Baron Albert DE DIETRICH (1831-) | | X Sophie von und zu DER Tan-Rathsamhausen (1832-1890) | | | X 1840 Adelaide von Stein | | | |- > Eugene-Dominique DE DIETRICH (1844-1918), appointed with the Reichstag | X Cecile Vaucher | | | |- > Dominique DE DIETRICH (1892-1963), Master of the forging mills | X Ines-Agnes de Pourtalès | | | |- > Baron Gilbert DE DIETRICH (1928-2006), chairman of the DE DIETRICH company of 1968 with 1996 | X Suzanne Syz (August 29th, 1925 - February 15th, 1975) | | | |- > Marc-Antoine DE DIETRICH, current president of the board of trustees of the DE DIETRICH company | |- > Jean-Sigismond DE DIETRICH (1803-1868), Master of the forging mills X Virginia Mathis (1810-1867) | |- > Amélie DE DIETRICH (1841-1874) X Baron Edouard de Turkheim

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