Albert Dufour-Feronce
Carl Heinrich Albert Freiherr Dufour of Feronce ( until 1932 Dufour Feronce; born May 14, 1868 in London, † February 3, 1945 in Berlin) was a German diplomat and Under Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
Life
Albert Dufour of Feronce was the son of the Leipzig and London big merchant Ferdinand Dufour Feronce (1835-1889) and his wife Maria Victoire born lamp ( † 1896). His paternal grandfather was the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker Albert Dufour - Feronce (1798-1861), his maternal grandfather the Leipzig entrepreneur and art patron Carl lamp ( 1804-1889 ). Both grandfathers were as co-founder of the Leipzig- Dresden Railway Company pioneers of railways.
The businessman and co-owner of the company his grandfather Carl lamp (E. Sachse & Co. factory essential oils Leipzig and Liesing in Vienna and Brückner lamp & Co. drug wholesale Berlin Leipzig Hamburg) joined in 1919 as Speaker of the foreign trade office of the Foreign Office in the diplomatic service. In 1920 he was Privy Councillor of Legation at the German Embassy in London, 1922 and 1923 Counsellor Messenger. In 1926, he was transferred into temporary retirement. From 1927 to 1932 he was Under-Secretary General of the League of Nations. In 1932 he was again ambassador in Belgrade until he was retired in 1933.
His great-grandfather Ferdinand Jacques Dufour Feronce had been raised to the hereditary baron in 1816 by the Saxon king. Because devoted great-grandfather and grandfather stores, Jacques - Ferdinand Dufour Feronce requested for himself and his son the right not to use the title. As the title of nobility was obviously important for a career in the diplomatic service, took Dufour Feronce 1932 as the first in the family the name " Baron Dufour of Feronce " to. Since the legal situation regarding the extinction of the title when not in use was not clearly brought out the Foreign Office at the Saxon government a legal opinion. Then, the authorization to use this name Carl Heinrich Albert Freiherr Dufour of Feronce, his wife Baroness respectively and adopted daughter, Baroness, respectively, on July 16, 1932 was granted.
Albert Dufour of Feronce been since October 11, 1892 married to Sophie Pauline, nee Mayer ( born March 30, 1873 in Leipzig, † 1964), daughter of the professor of mathematics Adolph Mayer ( 1839-1908 ) and sister of the banker and business associate of Bankhaus Meyer & Co. Christian Adolph Mayer ( 1874-1946 ). Since the couple was childless, adopted it, the two children Paul Gustav Moritz Caesar (* September 19, 1895; like 1916) and Anna Hedwig ( born January 16, 1899). Sophie Dufour of Feronce handed 1953, the correspondence of the family Dufour Feronce since 1777 to the City Archiv Leipzig.