Landowner, jurist, sub-prefect.
Deschán (II.) Achill (1848-1939), according to German sources Achill Deschan Edler von Hannsen-Hansen, civil servant, he took an active role in the public life, and was an acknowledged pianist and composer. Although he had an inclination for music and was going to study at the conservatory in Leipzig, László Röth sub-prefect of Temes County (today Timiş County, Romania) made him an offer to work for the county, which he accepted.
His parents were: Achill Deschán (I.) (1819-1872) landowner in Temes county, from 1848 until 1849 government commissioner of Krassó County (today Caraş county, Romania) and Katalin Osztoits (1823-1851). He had 10 brothers and sisters: Géza (1840-1885) chief contable, member of Parliament; Judit (1842-1880); br. Hauserné, Gizella (1843-1849); Stefánia Franciska Katalin (born in 1845); Iván (born in 1851); Pál (born and died in 1856); his half brothers and sisters from his father’s second wife Zsófia Lazarevits (born in 1834) were: I. Viola (born and died in 1864), II. Viola (born and died in 1865), Dezső (born in 1862), Gellért (1868-1895). His great-great grandfather was Johann Anton de Jean de Hannsen (1686-1760), cuirassier in Flanders in 1716. He commissioned the building of the Deschán palace in the downtown of Temesvár (today Timişoara, Romania) in 1835, which was transformed by his son Jozsef into the town’s most beautiful Classicist building. From 1790 until 1810 as chamber administrator he founded Dézsánfalva in the place of a village which in 1716 was called Radovanz. It was also his great-great grandfather who commissioned as Local Government Advisor the second oldest statue of Temesvár on Losonczi square (today Unirii square). The Holy Trinity Statue reminded of the epidemic plague, which a year before devastated the area. For his services he received as Local Government Advisor the imperial noble title, and in 1744 from Maria Teresa as Deschán de Hansen the Hungarian noble title.
Achill was born near Temesremete (today Remetea Mare, Romania) on the family estate of Bukovec (today Bucovăţ Romania). From 1858 until 1866 he studied at the Piarist High-School then he studied law in Kassa (today Košice, Slovakia), Pécs and Pozsony (today Bratislava, Slovakia). In 1872 he started working as a secretary for Lord Lieutenant Zsigmod Ormós. In 1874 he was elected third deputy clerk, in 1875 second deputy clerk and at the end of 1875 first deputy clerk, and in 1877 president of the orphan’s court. In twelve years he managed to make order in the orphan’s court and orphan’s treasury system. His merits were recognised and in 1888 he was elected sub-prefect and in 1891 during the Economic and Industrial Exposition of Southern Hungary organised in Temesvár with great success he guided Franz Iozef as president of the executive committee around and welcomed Gábor Baross Minister of Economics with a speech. On this occasion his name became known in the whole country. He received the third class Iron Crown Order. In 1897 he retired, the county voted a 1200 Forint per year pension for him.
He had an active role in the public life. From 1892 he became the president of the Natural Sciences Society of Southern Hungary, which was founded in 1874. (It was this society that signalled the phyloxera cases in Hungary for the first time in 1875. He was the president of the History and Archaeological Society of Southern Hungary. After the death of Zsigmond Ormós in 1892 he became the president of the society. He initiated the founding of Hungarian Song-and Music Association in Temesvár, of which he became the president. He was also the president of the Boating Cub in Temesvár and of the county breeding association, vice-president of the Red Cross of Temes County and Temesvár, committee member of the Association of the Lower-Danube Department of the Carpathian Association and of the Carpathian Association of Southern Hungary. He was the supporter of sculptor András Orgonás (1909-1987), who was born in the USA.
