Jean-Joseph Norbert Metz (2 February 1811 – 28 November 1885) was a Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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ian politician and engineer. With his two brothers, members of the powerful Metz family

Metz family

The Metz family is a family in Luxembourg that was prominent in politics and industry in the mid- and late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The head of the household was Jean Metz, who had nine children...

, Charles

Charles Metz

Charles Gérard Emmanuel Metz was a Luxembourgian politician, journalist, and lawyer. He was a prominent pro-Belgian in the Belgian Revolution, serving in the Belgian national legislature, before entering the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, of which he was the first President, from 1848 to...

 and Auguste

Auguste Metz

Jean-Antoine Auguste Metz was a Luxembourgian entrepreneur, politician, and lawyer. He was a major player in the growing steel industry in Luxembourg during the nineteenth century, as well as a leading liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies, along with his brothers.Born in Luxembourg City as...

, Metz defined political and economic life in Luxembourg in the mid-nineteenth century.

Metz was the leading 'quarante huitards': the radical

Radicalism (historical)

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 liberals responsible for the promulgation of Luxembourg's constitution

Constitution of Luxembourg

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 in 1848. He was appointed by the King to the Assembly of the States in 1842, representing the canton of Capellen. He was then elected to represent Capellen on the Constituent Assembly

Constituent Assembly of Luxembourg

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, in 1848. Pro-Belgian

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 and anti-German Confederation

German Confederation

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, after the first elections, Metz was appointed Administrator-General for Finances and Administrator-General for Military Affairs.

On 21 May 1834, he married the 21-year-old Marie-Barbe-Philippe-Eugénie Tesch, who had three children before dying on 29 January 1845. He remarried to Tesch's eighteen-year-old cousin, Marie-Suzanne-Albertine Tesch on 7 November 1850.