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Carl Ludwig Armand Knoblauch (* 1831 in Berlin ; † June 20, 1905 in Schlachtensee ) was a German lawyer and founder of the Bohemian Brewery in Berlin.

family

Knoblauch is a great-grandson of the army supplier Johann Christian Knoblauch, who had the Knoblauchhaus built at Poststrasse 23 at the corner of Nikolaikirchplatz from 1759 . His father Louis Knoblauch was a cousin of the Berlin city councilor Carl Knoblauch . His mother was the daughter of an emigrant from the Cotent family, her father Claude had fought against the Revolutionary Guards as a young man in the Tuileries and had to leave France after the defeat. In Belgium he learned how to produce saffron, but had to flee again when Napoleonic troops marched there. No sooner had he arrived in Berlin than he fell in love with the daughter of master locksmith Kaiser from Stralauerstrasse, married her and stayed in Berlin.

Armand's brother Bernhard Knoblauch became a chemist and also got into the fermentation trade. From 1902 to 1925 he was chairman of the VLB and from 1884 also worked for the Bohemian Brewery. The sister of the two was married to the banker Friedrich Feustel in Bayreuth.

His sons Richard and Max Knoblauch (born November 27, 1868) became directors of the Bohemian Brewery after the death of their father and continued to run the company together with their uncle Bernhard. Richard resigned from the management of the brewery in 1914 and, according to his inclinations, devoted himself to family and brewing history studies; he was an active member of the Association for the History of Berlin .

One of his grandchildren, Heinz Knoblauch, also became a lawyer and in-house counsel and until 1945 director of the Bohemian Brewery; another grandson graduated from the VLB as a brewery engineer.

Life

With the early death of his father Louis Armand Knoblauch came into the possession of a considerable fortune. Through his participation in the Austrian campaign during the German War in 1866 , he got to know the excellence of Bohemian beers. On June 17, 1868, he acquired an eight- acre property on Landsberger Chaussee 11-13 between Friedenstrasse, Mathiasstrasse and Pufendorfstrasse. The Bohemian master brewer Max Blank, who was recruited by Knoblauch, was a student of Drehers and mastered the most modern bohemian brewing technologies of the time. Knoblauch was also the first to have a cooling system from Linde installed in a Berlin brewery ; He also bought the first beer car in Berlin, a Daimler vehicle.

In the 1880s, Knoblauch was one of the initiators of the establishment of the experimental and teaching institute for brewing .

literature

  • E. Mundinger: Berlin cultural life in the mirror of an old brewing family. In: Die Brauerei, No. 94/95 of November 26, 1956, pp. 622f, 636ff - the same. In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Brewing 1957, pp. 103-126.
  • Knoblauchhaus museum. The Knoblauch family - a contribution to the history of Berlin in the 19th century. Berlin 1992.
  • Richard Knoblauch: Löwenbrauerei-Böhmisches Brauhaus AG: A look back at 60 years: 1870–1930. Berlin 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LDLBerlin: Bohemian Brewery (Berliner Weingroßkellerei GmbH)
  2. ↑ Hans Günter Schultze-Berndt (Ed.): VLB - 1883-1983 . 100 years of experimental and training institute for breweries in Berlin (VLB). Experimental and educational institute for breweries in Berlin, Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-921690-25-3 , p. 340 .
  3. ↑ A jubilee. In: Berliner Tageblatt of November 25, 1928, p. 45
  4. ↑ The author is a son-in-law of Richard Knoblauch
personal data
SURNAME Garlic, Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoblauch, Carl Ludwig Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and brewery founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1905
Place of death Schlachtensee