Carl Burgeff

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Carl Burgeff (born April 18, 1813 in Geisenheim , † April 1, 1871 in Hochheim am Main ) was a champagne cellar owner.

Life

His parents were the Geisenheim landlords and Cooper Jacob Burghef (1761-1827) and Barbara (1773-1848), a daughter of the miller Adam Krayer in Oestrich-Winkel . His brother Johann was a court assessor in Eltville .

Carl Burgeff attended grammar school Weilburg from 1829-1830 and became a businessman.

His brother had met Ignaz Schweickardt (1811–1858) who was looking for donors for his business. Her widowed mother granted a loan of 1,600 guilders at 5%. Carl joined the company as commercial director and founded the Burgeff & Schweickardt sparkling wine cellar in Hochheim in 1837 . She used local base wines , which were popular as Moussender Hochheimer or Sparkling Hock, especially among English and American spa guests in the baths on the Rhine and in the Taunus.

He was a sympathetic friend of the Hochheim landowner and merchant Georg Hofmann (1798-1853) and the raft trader and landlord Lorenz Eber. When in 1841 an investigation was initiated against Hofmann for “participating in revolutionary activities”, Eber and Carl Burgeff were also accused of the same offense (participation in the Union of Outlaws ). Burgeff managed to escape to London , where he opened a branch. When he was brought before the criminal justice on his return in 1843, nothing illegal could be extracted from him. Soon he was exporting a third of his production.

In 1848 he married Caroline Reuss (* 1823), with whom he had a daughter.

Schweickardt had himself paid out in 1857. In the same year the company was transformed into Hochheimer Actiengesellschaft for the preparation of sparkling wines with a share capital of 1 million guilders with the assistance of Meininger Bank .

literature

supporting documents

  1. ^ Günther Herzog:  Burgeff (Burghef), Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 44 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Rudolf Pfeiffer:  Christ, Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 216 ( digitized version ). (Mention of the miller Adam Krayer)
  3. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau, p. 49
  4. ↑ http://www.specknet.de/boehning/archivalien.html
  5. ↑ http://www.historische-eschborn.de/reports/Main-Taunus-Kreis/Georg_Hofmann/body_georg_hofmann.html
personal data
SURNAME Burgeff, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German champagne cellar owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Geisenheim
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1871
Place of death Hochheim am Main