Bürgerbräu share brewery (Ludwigshafen am Rhein)
The Bürgerbräu share brewery was a brewery in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . It was created in 1951 from the merger of the Ludwigshafen stock brewery and the Bürgerbräu Ludwigshafen AG . The "Bürgerbräu" brand shaped the beer market in the region until the 1970s.
history
On November 18, 1861, in Ludwigshafen, with the participation of the beer brewer Georg Pschorr in Munich, the Ludwigshafen Mayor Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberg and the industrialist Paul Franz Giulini the Aktienbrauerei established as one of the oldest in the former Kingdom of Bavaria. The share capital was originally 320,000 florins in 320 shares at 1000 florins each. In 1885 the value was converted into 640 shares at 1000 marks each and in 1886 it was increased to a total capital of 800,000 marks, at the general meeting on May 31, 1899 to 1,600,000 marks. The total beer output in the 1897/98 marketing year was 90,000 hectoliters.
On April 5, 1890, several Ludwigshafen citizens, including the publisher Julius Waldkirch , founded the Bürgerbräu Ludwigshafen am Rhein AG to continue operating Johan Peter Fuhrer's older brewery and "selling beer and the resulting by-products". The production facility was located between Ludwigstrasse and Bismarckstrasse in the middle of the city. In 1899 the share capital amounted to 500,000 marks in 500 shares of 1,000 marks each. The annual output before the First World War was around 120,000 hectoliters.
After the Second World War, the two companies merged to form the Bürgerbräu brewery. Most recently, the major shareholders were Henninger Bräu AG and later the Eichbaum Brewery in Mannheim. In 1974 it was converted into a GmbH. In 1979 the brewery was liquidated.
The Bürgerbräu brand was revived between 1988 and 1990 by a house brewery at the old location.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook of the Süddeutsche Aktien-Gesellschaft, Leipzig 1899, p. 119
literature
- Stefan Mörz, Klaus Jürgen Becker (Hrsg.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the First World War. City archive, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7 .