Max von Jaunez

Maximilian von Jaunez (9 March 1873 – 9 May 1947), commonly known as Max Jaunez, was a French-German industrialist and politician. From 1903 to 1907, he served in the Reichstag of the German Empire and from 1900 to 1917, he served as the General Councilor of Volmunster. Jaunez owned and operated the Utzschneider & Ed. Jaunez ceramics factory in Sarreguemines and was the owner of the Chateau de Rémelfing.

Early life Maximilian Jaunez was born on 9 March 1873 in Sarreguemines, Bezirk Lothringen to Édouard (von) Jaunez, an industrialist and politician, and Berthe de Geiger.

Personal life In 1903, Jaunez married the French aristocratic singer Jeanne de Montagnac in Paris. In 1911, Jaunez and his wife divorced. Jaunez married secondly, in 1927, Florrie King, who was the daughter of a coal miner from Hunslet, Yorkshire. Jaunez was Catholic. In 1917, during the start of the First World War, Jaunez emigrated to Switzerland and was stripped of his German citizenship. He died in Sarreguemines, France on 9 May 1947.