August Pschorr

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August Pschorr (born October 1, 1862 in Munich ; † October 20, 1935 there ) was a councilor and general director of the Pschorrbräu AG beer brewery in Munich.

Life

August Pschorr as a student in the 1880s
Certificate of appointment to the Commerce Council for August Pschorr (1904)

His father was the Kommerzienrat Georg Pschorr jun. (1830–1894), his mother Johanna geb. Fischer-Dick (1838-1918).

After attending elementary school in Munich August Pschorr came as students in the Hessel'sche Institute in Frankfurt and then in the commercial apprenticeship in cereals business Pfister, Mayr & Co . He then entered the Pschorr brewery as an intern and studied from 1883 to 1884 at the Technical University of Munich and at the brewery school in Weihenstephan . During his studies he became a member of the Armed Forces and later Landsmannschaft Bavaria zu Weihenstephan . To study brewing, he traveled to Northern Germany , Denmark , Sweden , England and America . In October 1889, Pschorr entered his father's business, which was founded in 1820, and became an authorized signatory and partner .

His father Georg Pschorr was an uncle of the composer Richard Strauss . Richard Strauss and his cousin August Pschorr often played music together when they were young. Strauss dedicated a number of compositions to him, such as the Soldier's Song in 1878 (Op. 48, 1878) and, on his 21st birthday, Variations for String Quartet on a Dance by Cesare Negri (1604) in Milan, score three and a half pages, written in September 1883.

On June 7, 1893, August Pschorr married Hedwig Bassermann (* 1874), a daughter of the publisher Otto Friedrich Bassermann . They had three children together: Johanna (1894–1895), Walter (* 1895), who later became a graduate engineer and director, and Gabriele (* 1899), who married Horst Freiherrn von Uckermann on September 27, 1919 . From this marriage a daughter, Ingeborg Freiin von Uckermann (* 1920), and two sons were born.

After his father's death in 1894, August took over the brewery together with his two younger brothers, Georg Theodor Pschorr and Joseph Pschorr , which they jointly managed until it was converted into an AG in 1922.

Since then August Pschorr has been General Director of Pschorrbräu AG . Pschorr was a commercial judge for nine years , city ​​councilor for the city of Munich for 23 years and first director of the Munich Breweries Association for 24 years . Together with brewery director Rudolf Funke , member of the board of the Schultheiß-Patzendorfer-Brauerei AG , he was the coordinated president of the German Brewers Association and Vice-President of the Bavarian Brewers Association .

Due to the high quality of the brewery products, August Pschorr was appointed purveyor to the court of the German Emperor and purveyor to the imperial court . He received several orders and decorations such as the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen , the Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class with the Crown, the Prince Regent Luitpold Medal in silver and the Cross of Merit for War Aid . In 1904, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria awarded him the title of royal Bavarian commercial councilor. Later he was appointed to the secret council of commerce.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Jacob (ed.): Address directory of the German armed forces for 1928/29. Reutlingen, 1928, p. 169.
  2. ^ Willi Schuh: Richard Strauss: a chronicle of the early years, 1864–1898 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982, pp. 19-20.
  3. ↑ Max Steinitzer: Richard Strauss. BiblioLife. 2009, ISBN 978-1-103-13762-6 , p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Pschorr, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, Privy Councilor of Commerce and General Director of the Pschorrbräu AG beer brewery in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1935
Place of death Munich