Pierre Brasseur (Luxembourg), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Luxembourgian businessman
Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1832
Place of Birth: Esch-sur-Alzette, Canton of Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Date of Death: 07-Feb-1918
Profession: jurist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Pierre Brasseur (Luxembourg)
- Pierre Brasseur (21 June 1832 – 7 February 1918) was a Luxembourgian entrepreneur, businessman, and mining magnate, being involved in founding a number of industrial concerns in southern Luxembourg.
- Amongst them was one of the steel companies that would become ARBED, and, after many mergers and consolidations, Arcelor Mittal. Pierre was a member of the Brasseur family, born the eleventh son of Alexis Brasseur in Esch-sur-Alzette.
- Along with a number of other associates, Pierre founded the Society for the Extraction of Minerals of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (French: Société pour l'Exploitation des Minières du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg).
- in 1861.
- The following year, he was awarded a concession to mine an area of 77 hectares (0.30 sq mi) near Rumelange, in Luxembourg's Red Lands.
- He was appointed notary in Esch-sur-Alzette in 1864. His success allowed him to establish in 1870 the Society of Blast Furnaces of Luxembourg (French: S.A.
- des Hauts Fourneaux Luxembourgeois), along with twenty-six other subscribers.
- He was one of the members of the first administrative council of the company, which directed the company until 1874.
- The company opened two blast furnaces in Esch in 1872 and 1873.
- In about 1874, he left the administrative council.
- However, his name would forever be attached to the furnaces in Esch.
- After mergers with German operations, and expansion in Esch-sur-Alzette and into Alsace-Lorraine, the company would become the second-largest industrial business in the Zollverein (after Krupp).
- In 1920, the firm would become ARBED, which would form a major part of Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel-maker. In 1875, he was appointed notary in Differdange.
- Brasseur was appointed director of mines in Dudelange, which were to become the Society of Blast Furnaces and Forges of Dudelange.
- In 1894, he founded the first cement company in Luxembourg, at Rumelange, which became the Society of Blast Furnaces of Rumelange in 1897.
- He died on 7 February 1918.On 17 November 1864, he married Hélène Wurth, daughter of François-Xavier Wurth-Paquet, who had been a famous Luxembourgian politician and Administrator-General for Luxembourg.
- Pierre's family played a key role in politics itself.
- His son, Xavier, was a Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies (1902–12).
- Pierre's younger brother, Dominique, was also a deputy (1866–99) and mayor of Luxembourg City (1891–94).
- Dominique's son, and Pierre's nephew, Robert, was a deputy (1899–1925) and founder of the Liberal League.
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