Benno Scharl

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Benno Scharl (actually Benjamin Scharl ) (born June 6, 1741 in Seefeld , Bavaria, † March 2, 1812 in Grünbach ) was a count's home economics administrator, brewing expert, Jesuit lay brother and author. He wrote the book “Description of the brown beer brewery in the Kingdom of Bavaria” , published posthumously by the Agricultural Association in Baiern . Scharl is considered to be the intellectual originator of the beer set regulations issued by King Maximilian I Joseph on April 25, 1811 to determine the beer price.

family

Benno Scharl was born as the younger son of a master brewer and innkeeper in Seefeld . His older brother was the Benedictine priest and prior of the Andechs Monastery Placidus Scharl.

education

Benno Scharl attended the country school in Seefeld. At the age of 15 he began a three-year apprenticeship as a beer brewer at the Faberbräu brewery in Munich . He later entered the Jesuit order as a lay brother and attended the Jesuit novitiate school in Landsberg for a year.

Professional background

After completing his apprenticeship as a brewer, Benno Scharl worked for several years in the Faberbräu brewery before moving to a brewery belonging to the Jesuit order, where he held various positions for several years. After being accepted into the Jesuit order, he worked for it in various places until the order was dissolved.

After that, he was employed for 10 years as the administrator of several breweries and estates in Ingolstadt and the surrounding area at the electoral property administration, before he moved to Ebersberg as an economist to manage the agriculture of the local grand priory. After two years he switched to the service of the Counts of Seinsheim and managed the estate of Sünching Castle for them and finally, from 1787, the estate of Grünbach Castle . In all of his positions he distinguished himself through the introduction of various technical and technological innovations in the various fields of the agricultural industry. In particular, he renewed and modernized breweries according to a new concept, planted hops and orchards or introduced clover cultivation.

Works

The book about the bottom-fermented (“brown”) brewery in Bavaria, which was published posthumously in 1814 and is regarded as the first modern description of this method, is considered to be Scharl's main work . This book also contains Scharl's biography written by Johann Michael Sailer .

At the end of the 1930s, Heinrich Huber discovered in a file in the Munich city archives that had been started in 1750, the handwritten “Detailed description of the brewery, how to make a malt from barley and a beer from this malt”, published by Huber and the Society for the History and Bibliography of Brewing eV in Berlin in 1937 was published.

  • Scharl, Benno: Description of the brew by Benno Scharl (1741-1812) . Ed .: Heinrich Huber. Berlin 1937.

Honors

  • In Grünbach , where Scharl spent the last 25 years of his life, the federal road 388 is called Benno-Scharl-Straße .
  • The beer Benno Scharl Braumeister Weisse from the Schlossbrauerei Grünbach bears his name and his image.

literature

  • Huber, Heinrich: Benno Scharl, the founder of modern brewing. In: Society for the history and bibliography of brewing EV (Ed.): Yearbook of the society for the history and bibliography of brewing EV 1936 . Berlin 1936, p. 152-158 .
  • Speckmann, WD: Benno Scharl - A tribute to the 200th anniversary of his death . In: Society for the History of Brewing eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Society for the History of Brewing eV 2012 . Berlin 2012, p. 244-248 .
  • Teich, Mikuláš: Beer, science and economy in Germany 1800-1914. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence and receipts

  1. ^ Teich, Mikuláš: Beer, Science and Economy in Germany 1800-1914. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, p. 31 .
  2. ↑ Scharl, Benno: Description of the brown beer brewery in the kingdom of Baiern . Joseph Lindauer, Munich 1814, p. 1-3 .
  3. ↑ Scharl, Benno: Description of the brown beer brewery in the kingdom of Baiern . Joseph Lindauer, Munich 1814, p. 3-5 .
  4. ↑ Scharl, Benno: Description of the brown beer brewery in the kingdom of Baiern . Joseph Lindauer, Munich 1814, p. 4-5 .
  5. ↑ Scharl, Benno: Description of the brown beer brewery in the kingdom of Baiern . Joseph Lindauer, Munich 1814, p. 5-28 .
  6. ↑ Huber, Heinrich: Benno Scharl, the founder of modern brewing. In: Society for the history and bibliography of brewing EV (Ed.): Yearbook of the society for the history and bibliography of brewing EV 1936 . Berlin 1936, p. 158 .
  7. ↑ bockhorn-obb.de: street directory
  8. ↑ 1000 beverages | Beer test - Grünbacher Benno Scharl Braumeister Weisse 7 out of 10 points. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Scharl, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharl, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian author and economics administrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Seefeld , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1812
Place of death Grünbach , Bavaria