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Maximilian von Jaunez | |
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| General Councilor ofVolmunster | |
| In office 1900–1917 | |
| Member of theReichstag | |
| In office 1903–1907 | |
| Monarch | Wilhelm II |
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| Born | Maximilian Jaunez 9 March 1873 Sarreguemines,Bezirk Lothringen, German Empire |
| Died | 9 May 1947 Sarreguemines, France |
| Spouse(s) | Jeanne de Montagnac (1903–1911; div.) Florrie King (m. 1927) |
| Children | 2 (includingNelly de Vogüé) |
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| Education | University of Strasbourg University of Jena |
| Occupation | politician, engineer, businessman |
Maximilian von Jaunez (9 March 1873 – 9 May 1947), commonly known asMax Jaunez, was a French-German industrialist and politician. From 1903 to 1907, he served in theReichstag of the German Empire and from 1900 to 1917, he served as the General Councilor ofVolmunster. Jaunez owned and operated the Utzschneider & Ed. Jaunez ceramics factory inSarreguemines and was the owner of the Chateau deRémelfing.
Maximilian Jaunez was born on 9 March 1873 inSarreguemines,Bezirk Lothringen toÉdouard (von) Jaunez, an industrialist and politician, and Berthe de Geiger.[1] He came from a prominent business family inMoselle, a Frenchdepartment that was under German rule. His father was ennobled byWilhelm II in 1904 as a hereditary knight, which granted Jaunez and other members of the Jaunez family to have the privilege to use thenobiliary particle "von" in their surname and elevated them into thePrussian nobility.[2]
He studied at theUniversity of Strasbourg and, in 1896, obtained a doctorate in law from theUniversity of Jena.[1]
Jaunez owned and operated the Utzschneider & Ed. Jaunez ceramics factory in Sarreguemines, which was co-founded by his father and his grand uncles, Charles Joseph and Maximilian Utzschneider, in 1864.[2]
In 1900, Jaunez was elected as General Councilor ofVolmunster, and remained in this post until 1917. He waselected to theReichstag of the German Empire in June 1903 as a representative ofMetz-Campagne and served as a member of parliament until January 1907.[3][4]
In 1903, Jaunez married the French aristocratic singerJeanne de Montagnac in Paris.[2] They had two children, Bertrand andHélène "Nelly", the latter became the mistress ofAntoine de Saint-Exupéry.[2] The family lived in the Chateau deRémelfing and at an apartment at 82 Boulevard deCourcelles in Paris.[1] In 1911, Jaunez and his wife divorced. Jaunez married secondly, in 1927, Florrie King, who was the daughter of a coal miner fromHunslet,Yorkshire.[2][5] Jaunez was Catholic.[6] In 1917, during the start of theFirst World War, Jaunez emigrated to Switzerland and was stripped of his German citizenship.[7] He died in Sarreguemines, France on 9 May 1947.
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