Christian Adalbert Kupferberg

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Christian Adalbert Kupferberg (born April 18, 1824 in Kriegsheim near Worms; † August 9, 1876 in Mainz ) was the founder of the Kupferberg sparkling wine cellar (1850) in Mainz.

education

Kupferberg was the son of a grand ducal district taker. He began his professional career in 1843 with an apprenticeship as an export merchant at the Reiss trading house in Mannheim. His professional advancement was interrupted by the ensuing imprisonment in Babenhausen after a duel because of insulting his bride. In 1846 he continued his career in the Renz wine trading company in Worms , for which he first visited London.

Entrepreneurship

Together with his partner Robert Kempf from Mainz, he founded the company Kempf & Kupferberg Fabrication moussirender wines in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1847 . The entrepreneurs separated in 1850 and Christian Adalbert Kupferberg set up his own sparkling wine cellar in Mainz. At that time, the fortress command office once again released an industrial site within the Mainz fortress . Until then, the Kästrich was planted with vines .

Kupferberg dedicated himself to the export of sparkling wines : Moussirender Rheinwein , Moussirender Moselwein , Moussirender Hochheimer , Sparkling Moselle . Just two years after the company was founded, he recognized the value of the brand and had the Kupferberg Gold brand protected. Kupferberg Gold is one of the oldest German brands. Brand protection and print advertising were to be the driving force for the rise of his company, but also modern transport routes, such as the railroad, which also went into operation in Mainz from 1853 and brought important sales regions such as England closer to the winery.

At the world exhibition in London in 1862 , he was able to present two other brands in addition to Kupferberg Gold. Kupferberg had meanwhile become an important entrepreneur in Mainz and in 1873 he traveled to Berlin as a member of a Mainz delegation to request the demolition of part of the Mainz fortifications. There he was able to use his personal relationships with Otto von Bismarck , who gave him an audience with the Kaiser. Bismarck lived and worked for several days during the Franco-Prussian War in the Kupferberg house, from where one could see the Glacis of Mainz well, and set up an office of the Foreign Office there. The mission was not an immediate success, but it did substantially support the city's demands for later expansion.

family

Kupferberg had eight children.

  • His daughter Constanze married the champagne manufacturer Arthur Bricout from Épernay in 1869 ; and so he maintained close relationships and family ties with Champagne .
  • His son Franz became his first company successor (until 1903).
  • Hugo and Florian founded a bottle factory in Budenheim , which supplied the surrounding sparkling wine cellars ( Söhnlein , Henkell and of course Kupferberg) with suitable bottles until the 1990s .
  • In 1890 Florian joined the management of CAK upferberg.

Four years before the company's founder died, the winery was converted into a Commandit-Gesellschaft auf Actien (KGaA) with registered shares with restricted transferability . The sole owner and director was Christian Adalbert Kupferberg.

Since then, family members such as Christian Adalbert Kupferberg Senior and Junior, Franz Kupferberg and Christian Andreas Kupferberg, as personally liable partners, have managed the fortunes of the sparkling wine cellar.

Christian Adalbert Kupferberg's grave is in the main cemetery in Mainz .

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personal data
SURNAME Kupferberg, Christian Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH War home near Worms
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1876
Place of death Mainz