Émile Metz

Born in Eich in 1835, he studied engineering in Paris, then proceeded to work for Waring Brothers, who built railway lines.

After this, he started working in his father's business, Metz & Cie. At the suggestion of Jean Meyer, who was head of research at Metz & Cie, Émile Metz managed to convince his father to buy the rights to the Thomas-Gilchrist procedure for dephosophorising Minette (low-quality iron ore found in the south of Luxembourg).

In 1895 after his cousin Edouard Metz's death, he became president of the chamber of commerce.

In 1896, he had a villa built for himself, which today houses the Russian Embassy in Luxembourg.

After his death, his widow established a foundation, which created the Institut Emile Metz in 1913, now the Lycée technique privé Émile-Metz.