Albert Louis Eugène de Dietrich

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Grandson of the great industrialist Albert de Dietrich (1802-1888), Albert Louis Eugène de Dietrich, born in 1861, was a civil engineer of the Mines. At the age of seventeen, he took part in the family company's board of directors (1878-1884), decided to become a French citizen in 1882, settled in Paris and, after his military service, represented the company for two years (1890-91) in South America (Chile, Peru, Bolivia).
After a rich marriage in 1892 with Marie-Louise Lucie Hottinguer (daughter of Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer, regent of the Bank of France), he seems to have gradually lost interest in industrial activities, the company passing under the control of another branch of the family.
Albert Louis Eugène is not a Dietrich like the others: he has no children, although the family has always had an important place in their house (Jean Dietrich had sixteen children), he is not involved in the company and lives on his income, he has a temperament of artist, dilettante and collector.
Albert de Dietrich had four main residences: in addition to the Léonardsau, which he acquired and fitted out in 1899, but where he stayed only a few months a year, he had a home in Strasbourg, which was none other than the villa Massol, a beautiful residence built in 1884, on the order of the Ritleng brothers, and which today adjoins the Tomi Ungerer Museum, another residence in Paris, 83 boulevard Malesherbes, and, at the end of his life, a villa in Cannes in the Art Deco style, the Villa Araucaria, built in 1925 and opening onto a beautiful terraced garden.