Adolf Roesicke (entrepreneur)

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Friedrich Julius Adolf Roesicke (born October 29, 1817 - † September 3, 1886 ) was a German entrepreneur. In 1864 he became the owner of the Schultheiss brewery , which he greatly enlarged.

Life

Roesicke married Pauline Goschenhofer, with whom he had sons Richard and Gustav . Richard's son, the chemist Adolf Roesicke , was named after his grandfather.

Adolf Roesicke was initially a co-owner of the linen company Goschenhofer & Roesicke, which was located in Berlin at Leipziger Strasse 58, and from 1843 became the sole owner. At that time, around 600 people were employed in the company.

In May 1864 he bought Jobst Schultheiss's brewery for 210,000 thalers , which was originally located at Neue Jakobstraße 24-26 . He handed the commercial management over to his 19-year-old son Richard. Under Roesicke the production was switched from top-fermented to bottom-fermented beers. Three years after the purchase, the further brewery property at Schönhauser Allee 39 was expanded by ten acres of land to twelve acres; the building land that Adolf Roesicke bought was on Schönhauser Allee 38, 37 and 36. He moved the headquarters of the brewery there; the fronts faced Franseckistraße, which is now called Sredzkistraße, and Tresckowstraße. In 1871 the company was converted into a public limited company. In a contemporary pamphlet this was commented as follows: “On June 11, 1870 the Actiengesetz exploded, and now it was the turn of the other breweries; one after the other was "founded". We classify them as follows [...] “In the following text, the author Otto Glagau differentiated between not too bad, fairly bad, decidedly bad and very bad. Schultheiss got off lightly in this evaluation and was counted among the not too bad share foundations. In addition to Adolf and Richard Roesicke, he named the following members: Kommerzienrat Wilhelm Herz, Consul Gustav Müller, Consul Georg Marchand, Kommerzienrat Benjamin Liebermann, Oscar Hainauer and Julius Schiff.

A new brewhouse was built on Franseckistraße by 1873. With the introduction of bottled beer in 1880, both production and employee numbers increased. In the mild winter of 1882/83, a refrigeration machine was purchased, so that in 1884 the previous ice cellars could be converted into storage cellars. The redesign of the Schultheiss brewery , which continued to bear this name, was in the hands of the architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten . Even after Adolf Roesicke's death, the company continued to expand.

Mausoleum of the Roesicke family

Adolf Roesicke was buried in the Berlin cemetery of the St. Petri community . The neoclassical mausoleum, built in 1887, was designed by Franz Schwechten .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grave site and biographical data on www.hartwig-w.de
  2. ↑ Another date of death, July 21, 1903, can be found on the Kulturbrauerei's homepage ( memento of October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), where Adolf and Richard Roesicke are obviously confused.
  3. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=3J2NDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&lpg=PT107&dq=August+Heinrich+Prell&source=bl&ots=x_t4fYDnKf&sig=qukXoJRWdeEWcTTw8Ow4iZyk4QM&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFyZ2L1vLfAhVHZFAKHYOPC7QQ6AEwBnoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=August%20Heinrich%20Prell&f=false
  4. ↑ Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (ed.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 130 ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  5. ↑ Christoph Sandler: Handbook of the efficiency of the entire industry in Germany, Austria, Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland. 1st volume, Leipzig 1873, p. 9.
  6. ↑ https://www.diegeschichteberlins.de/geschichteberlins/persoenitäten/persoenitätenot/395-roesicke.html
  7. ^ Otto Glagau: The stock exchange and start-up fraud in Berlin. Collected and greatly increased articles of the "gazebo". Leipzig 1876, p. 263.
  8. ↑ Homepage of the Kulturbrauerei
  9. ↑ Data on friedhofsfinder.stiftung-historische-friedhoefe.de
personal data
SURNAME Roesicke, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roesicke, Friedrich Julius Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1817
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1886