Andreas Schmalbauch

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Andreas Schmalbauch with his family name "Schmalbach", which was only changed posthumously in 1913 .

Johann Andreas Schmalbauch (born February 20, 1851 in Niedersachswerfen , † January 7, 1904 in Braunschweig ) was a German entrepreneur and in 1898 the founder of the JA Schmalbauch company .

life and work

Schmalbauch came from a family of farmers, linen weavers and brick makers . His father Andreas Schmalbauch (* 1816) ran a trading shop and brickworks in Niedersachswerfen, on the south-eastern edge of the Harz Mountains , in which the younger son Andreas learned the trade of a merchant and brick-maker. After Andreas Schmalbauch's older brother Franz Wilhelm inherited the family business, Andreas Schmalbauch went on a hike . He finally found a job in a brickworks between Gliesmarode and Querum , two villages that are now part of the city of Braunschweig. On October 10, 1875, he married Johanne Beste († 1923) from Stadtoldendorf . with whom he had the children Willi (* February 17, 1876), Emma (* May 31, 1877) and Gustav (* February 12, 1880). After starting his own business in 1875, he founded three grocery stores, two restaurants and an asparagus plantation in the following years . On February 24, 1879, he was accepted as a citizen of the city of Braunschweig. In addition, he worked successfully as a property seller. The family lived at Gliesmaroder Straße 12.

Factory building on Hamburger Strasse with the lettering "JA Schmalbach".

Through his small businesses he came into contact with Braunschweig's canning industry, which was very important for the economic history of the city of Braunschweig . In 1882 he ran a mail order business for asparagus and other canned food together with the plantation owner Hermann Cordes . The business partners soon went their own way again. In 1892 Schmalbauch succeeded in acquiring an asparagus plantation in what is now the Schwarzer Berg district . He processed the vegetables himself and then had them packed in cans at the Becker plumber's on Herderstrasse . Becker had lent Schmalbauch several times until he finally became a partner and after Becker's departure from October 1, 1898, sole owner of the factory, which at that time had 15 machines and up to 30 seasonal workers . Since the business in Herderstrasse soon became too small, Schmalbauch bought the property at Hamburger Strasse 37, on which the original main building of his new company JA Schmalbauch is still today , as well as an associated iron warehouse. On September 1, 1899, the new factory building was completed and the Schmalbauch company founded, which became the largest sheet metal factory in the city and (after the First World War ) the market leader in the German packaging industry .

Schmalbauch's entrepreneurial success was due to great commercial skill and his high willingness to innovate . It was his goal to move away from manual work towards automation and machine production. Schmalbauch is one of the most important representatives of the Braunschweig economy, especially the canning industry at the beginning of the 20th century.

After a short illness, Andreas Schmalbauch died at the age of 53. His two sons Willi Schmalbach and Gustav Schmalbach successfully continued the company.

Name change

Desk and wooden relief by J. A. Schmalbauch in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum

Andreas Schmalbauch was of the opinion early on that his family name was not conducive to the success of his company, especially in the food industry, and therefore applied to the Duke-Braunschweig State Ministry to change it to "Schmalbach". However, this did not take place until May 9, 1913, nine years after his death. The sons Willi and Gustav as well as their legitimate descendants were allowed to use the name “Schmalbach” exclusively in the future. As a result, the company was also renamed "JA Schmalbach".

Honor and company museum

  • In honor of the Schmalba (u) ch family, "Schmalbach-Strasse" in the north of Braunschweig was named after her.
  • In memory of the company founder, the Ball Packaging Europe branch in Braunschweig, a successor company that operates at the former company location, houses a small Schmalbach museum with exhibits from the early days of canning to modern beverage can production.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilhelm Geßner: Johann Andreas Schmalbauch 1851–1904, Willi Schmalbach 1875–1929, Gustav Schmalbach 1880–1931, Herbert Munte 1899–1961. P. 248.
  2. ↑ a b Reimar Fürst: Packaging. Praised, rebuked - indispensable! A century of packaging industry. P. 51.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Geßner: Johann Andreas Schmalbauch 1851–1904, Willi Schmalbach 1875–1929, Gustav Schmalbach 1880–1931, Herbert Munte 1899–1961. P. 251.
  4. ^ A b c d Wilhelm Geßner: Johann Andreas Schmalbauch 1851–1904, Willi Schmalbach 1875–1929, Gustav Schmalbach 1880–1931, Herbert Munte 1899–1961. P. 249.
  5. ^ A b Wilhelm Geßner: Johann Andreas Schmalbauch 1851–1904, Willi Schmalbach 1875–1929, Gustav Schmalbach 1880–1931, Herbert Munte 1899–1961. P. 250.
  6. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schildt (Ed.): Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , p. 793.
  7. ^ Gudrun Fiedler : Willi Andreas Schmalbach. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 527 .
  8. ^ Gudrun Fiedler: Wilhelm Karl August Otto Gustav Schmalbach. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 526/527 .
  9. ^ Wilhelm Geßner: Johann Andreas Schmalbauch 1851–1904, Willi Schmalbach 1875–1929, Gustav Schmalbach 1880–1931, Herbert Munte 1899–1961. P. 252.
  10. ↑ Schmalbach Museum. ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on ball-europe.com
personal data
SURNAME Narrow stomach, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmalbauch, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1904
Place of death Braunschweig