Philippe Suchard

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Philippe Suchard

Philippe Suchard (born  October 9, 1797 in Boudry ( Canton Neuchâtel ), †  January 14, 1884 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss chocolate manufacturer and entrepreneur .

Life

In September 1814 he began an apprenticeship as a confectioner in his brother Frédéric's confectionery shop in Bern, and in May 1824 he fulfilled a great dream by going on a trip to America.

Suchard house
Bill from the Philippe Suchard company dated May 14, 1875

The Swiss watches and embroidery that were in his hand luggage should make him a successful businessman. But he could not sell his goods with the success he wanted.

When he returned to Switzerland in 1825, he opened his first confectionery / chocolaterie in the city of Neuchâtel. As early as 1826, production moved to the vacant mill in the Neuchâtel suburb of Serrières. Philippe Suchard invented the Mélangeur  - a machine for blending sugar and cocoa powder, as it is still used today.

Inspired by a trip to the Orient in 1865, Suchard had his house decorated with a minaret by the architect Louis-Daniel Perrier . In 1880 he opened his first factory abroad, in Lörrach, Germany . At the end of the 19th century, Suchard was the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world.

Suchard was a member of the Freemasons Association , his Lodge La Bonne Harmonie is based in Neuchâtel .

Today the Suchard chocolate factory belongs to Mondelēz International and no longer produces in Neuchâtel.

Works

  • My visit to America in the summer of 1824 , Aarau 1827 digitized

literature

  • Christa Edlin: Philippe Suchard: 1797 - 1884; Chocolate pioneer , captain and master of advertising (= Swiss pioneers in business and technology , volume 56). 3rd, updated edition. Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-909059-02-7 .
    • First edition of the second edition under the title: Philippe Suchard (1797-1884): Chocolate manufacturer and social pioneer , by Christa Edlin, 1992; the first edition by Hans Rudolf Schmid: Philippe Suchard: 1797-1884, chocolate manufacturer Neuchâtel (= Swiss pioneers in business and technology , volume 1). Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 1955, OCLC 246032580 .
  • Gerhard Moehring: Philippe Suchard (1797-1884) - a passionate entrepreneur. In: Das Markgräflerland , Volume 2017, pp. 139–153
  • For Philippe Suchard's 150th birthday. In: Die Berner Woche , Volume 37 (1947), Issue 42, doi : 10.5169 / seals-649965

Web links

Commons : Suchard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chocolate pioneers: Philippe Suchard , swissworld.org ( Memento of April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ see homepage of the Lodge for History (French)
  3. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Suchard, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chocolate manufacturer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Boudry , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1884
Place of death Neuchâtel NE , Switzerland