Carl Jakob Christian White

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Carl Jakob Christian Weiß on horseback in front of his house

Carl Jakob Christian Weiß (born May 2, 1809 in Stuttgart , † November 5, 1889 in Eßlingen am Neckar ) was a German oenologist and entrepreneur. He was the first member of the Weiß family to manage the Kessler sparkling wine cellar . It is considered the oldest sparkling wine cellar in Germany and was in the hands of his descendants until 2004.

Life

Carl Jakob Christian Weiß was a son of the master confectioner Johann Karl Christian Weiß and his wife Auguste Luise, born. Asymus. He completed his apprenticeship with Farben-Schill in Stuttgart and then continued his education in Geneva . From July 1, 1835, Weiß was a partner in GC Kessler & Co. After Kessler left the company, he continued to run the sparkling wine. Weiß, who obtained his champagne bottles from the Buhlbach glassworks , was very innovative. In his test vineyard, he experimented with different types of wine that were particularly suitable for making sparkling wine. He enlarged the sparkling wine cellar by leasing or buying cellars under the Speyrer Pflegehof . White was involved in various industrial companies. Among other things, he bought parts of a silk spinning mill in Langenargen , which from 1863 was named Bitzmann, Bossard & Cie. was renamed and later passed into family ownership.

Weiß had a summer house built in his test vineyard , which is now a listed building, but also took care of the establishment of a private hospital for workers and servants, because, as Weiß wrote in the Anzeiger, Official and Intelligence Gazette: “Has long been in this city felt the need to have a place of refuge for sick workers and servants, since the city hospital is initially only intended for naturalized people. ”This facility was built in 1861 and inaugurated in 1862.

In 1858 Weiß was chairman of the Esslingen Citizens' Committee, from 1849 to 1865 he was a member of the municipal council, and in 1869 a trade association was founded, of which Weiß became chairman in 1872. Weiss was also involved in founding the oratorio club.

The house at Marktplatz 3 was owned by Carl Jakob Christian Weiß or his widow from 1841 to 1910; Kessler Sekt was family-owned until bankruptcy in the 21st century. Also, built in 1851 Summerhouse Weisseck with the address Gayernweg 65 in Mettingen was more than 150 years in the family.

progeny

Weiss' first wife, Luise Henriette Chenaux, came from Geneva, the city of his youth, whom he married in 1831. The marriage had three children, the sons August (1832-1927) and Heinrich (1836-1912) and the daughter Julie (1840-1928), who later married the industrialist Oskar Merkel . On a lithograph showing the market square in Esslingen, these three children can be seen playing in front of their parents' house . The rider in the foreground depicts Carl Jakob Christian Weiß watching the arrival of a wine wagon. After the death of his first wife in 1869, he married a second time. With his second wife Rosa, geb. Baier, he had another child, a son named Emil.

The sparkling wine-producing branch of the family remained in Esslingen: August Weiß, who lived in his parents' house before moving to Ebershaldenstrasse 5 , later took over the management of the sparkling wine cellar, which was passed on to his son Rudolf Johannes in 1902, for whom the house on Kanalstrasse 26 was built.

Heinrich Weiß, on the other hand, received the silk twisting mill in Langenargen. However, he fell out with his father and made sure that this family business could not develop a long tradition: In his will he resigned his first son, the second he obliged to give up the silk twining, to support the former employees through a foundation for life and one in Langenargen to build evangelical church.

  • Gravestone of Luise Henriette Weiß, b. Chenaux

  • The residential building on Marktplatz, formerly Spitalplatz 13

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Barbara Kaufhold, German Sekt advertisement from 1879-1918. Their development under economic, social and artistic aspects , Diss. Bochum 2002, p. 237 ff. (PDF; 20.1 MB)
  2. ↑ life data on geschichte-des-weines.de
  3. ↑ Refuge for sick servants , in: Esslinger Zeitung, January 28, 2012
  4. ↑ Klinikum Esslingen on Kessler's anniversary special edition ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klinikum-esslingen.de
  5. ↑ Quoted from Jürgen Zieger's speech manuscript for the 150th anniversary of the municipal clinic.
  6. ↑ History of Kessler Sekt (PDF; 780 kB)
  7. ↑ So the information in the monument topography, according to this dissertation (PDF; 20.1 MB), Weiss bought the house only in 1843 from the estate of the widow Magdalena Levi.
  8. ↑ Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 322
  9. ^ Eva Stengel, Julie Merkel née Weiß (1840-1928). Portrait of a manufacturer's wife , in: City of Esslingen am Neckar (ed.), FemaleES. Women's history sought and discovered , Esslingen 1999, pp. 12–17, here p. 12 f.
personal data
SURNAME White, Carl Jakob Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oenologist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1889
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar