Victor Tesch

Victor Jean-Baptiste Tesch (12 March 1812 – 16 June 1892)[1] was a Luxembourgish and Belgian jurist, industrialist, journalist and liberal politician.

He was a friend of Émile Tandel, the district commissioner for Arlon-Virton, secretary of the Archeological Institute of Luxembourg and author of Communes luxembourgeoises.

[2] He associated with Nicolas Berger, a Luxembourgish banker in Arlon who opted for Belgian citizenship, Emmanuel Servais, later prime minister, and Charles Metz, an industrialist and politician.

Highly attached to his native region, Tesch was vehemently against the partition that would split off the Grand Duchy from the Province of Luxembourg.

He was active in politics, and founded a liberal newspaper alongside Emmanuel Servais, Charles Metz and Auguste Wurth, the Écho du Luxembourg, which first appeared in 1836.