Charlotte Erasmi

Johanna Dorothea Charlotte Erasmi (born June 18, 1827 in Lübeck , † August 4, 1893 in Niendorf ) was a German canning company .

Life

origin

Charlotte Erasmi was a daughter of the businessman Johann Jochim Reinboth (born November 25, 1792 in Lübeck; † February 22, 1853 ibid) and his wife Charlotte Luise, née Lütgens, (born February 10, 1797 in Lübeck; † March 8, 1872 ibid.) ). Her parents had a shop for spices and materials in Lübeck, in which she worked at a young age.

career

It is unclear which schools she attended before. As a teenager she supplied sugar and salt to DH Carstens , a German canning factory that had existed since 1845. She moved with her parents and their trading company from Lübeck's Aegidien- to Alfstrasse .

The Erasmi family lived in the neighborhood. Its head ran a wine shop until his death, albeit economically unsuccessful. Charlotte, a daughter-in-law of the family for 15 years, closed the business. In 1866 she worked with the canned and canned glass company to realize the idea of ​​a preserving kitchen, which she had had in mind for a long time. This was not equipped with special machines and devices and produced canned food using the heating process invented by Nicolas Appert . Nevertheless, she quickly had a large customer base and even shipped her canned food abroad. From February 15, 1870, her company was entered in the commercial register as "Charlotte Erasmi, factory for long-life meals".

The company benefited from the economic boom after the Franco-German War . A tin plumbing shop was set up in one wing of the house in 1876 . The climax of the company's ascent was reached after 1885. Her products were popular local dishes and she supplied the German troops in German East Africa . As a result, she was appointed purveyor to the court of the Prussian King and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Erasmi letterhead (1898)

As the Erasmis canning factory and DH Carstens grew steadily, they wanted to expand their product range to include significantly more vegetables from farmers and gardeners in the region.

With the attempt to own breeding of mushrooms in the basement of their house Erasmi wanted 1878 reduce their dependence on more distant suppliers. As this was successful, she set up a plantation at Ratzeburger Allee 35 . The established mushroom cultivation gave her self-sufficiency .

Your company was now one of the largest canning manufacturers in northern Germany.

Erasmi occurred in 1884 in the retired and lived the last years in a small villa in St. Lawrence . She died at the age of 66 in Niendorf.

family

On September 12, 1850 she married Albert Erasmi (born June 12, 1813 in Lübeck; † February 19, 1865 ibid) a son of the Erasmi family. Their marriage resulted in four daughters, only one of whom grew up, and three sons, one of whom died young.

Letterhead (1898)

Heinrich Christian Theodor , her older son, joined the company in 1874. In 1882, together with a partner from Hamburg, he was given the management of the company before he was given sole management responsibility in 1884 and modernized production. In addition to growing mushrooms, he also grew asparagus , and the plantation extended from Ratzeburger Allee 35 to 45. Up to 160 field workers lived in the tenements he had built . The factory was expanded considerably in 1890 and 1896 through the purchase of land . In 1904 his previous authorized signatory , A. Linde, became his partner. Erasmi, temporarily part of the management of the Chamber of Commerce , belonged to the Lübeck fire insurance system , the Lübeck private bank and the Lübeck share beer brewery . As the second chairman of the Lübeck Yacht Club , he represented it at events. Highly valued by Emperor and Prince Heinrich , he was often invited to the beer evenings in Travemünde at their request . On January 27, 1908, the Emperor's birthday, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. The company merged in 1929 with the “Aktiengesellschaft Lübecker Conservenfabrik, formerly DH Carstens” to form “ Erasmi & Carstens GmbH & Co. KG ”, whose current product range consists of marzipan .

Adolf, her younger son, briefly owned the "Bonbon-, Marzipan and Sugar Confectionery Factory F. Vorbeck", which has developed into today's Erasco company . He was a member of the Lübeck Schiller Foundation . As there Louis bulk , owner of the long-established ship brokerage firm C. F. bulk & Co. , on the General Assembly on 29 May 1895 at regular intervals from the Office retired, he was appointed auditor selected.

literature

• Elke P. Brandenburg: Erasmi, Charlotte . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , pp. 99-101.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Erasmi †. In: Von Lübeck's Towers , Volume 26, No. 39, Edition of September 23, 1916, p. 241.
2. ↑ Weekly Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1908, No. 5, edition of February 2, 1908, p. 20.
3. ↑ Lübeck Schiller Foundation. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 68th volume, No. 34, edition of May 31, 1896, p. 252.