Eberhard Anheuser

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Eberhard Anheuser

Eberhard Anheuser (born September 27, 1806 in Kreuznach ; † May 2, 1880 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an entrepreneur and brewery owner.

In 1842 two brothers from the 10th generation of the Kreuznach Anheusers emigrated to America . Eberhard Anheuser made a small fortune as a candle maker and soap boiler in St. Louis , Missouri , USA . This fortune (90,000  US dollars ) (according to today's value 2,849,747 US dollars) he invested in the small Bavarian Brewery founded in 1852 by Georg Schneider , which in 1858 operated under the name "Hammer und Urban". The brothers of the military doctor Adam Hammer brought the brewery up to date, but ran into financial difficulties again because sales left a lot to be desired. In 1860 he bought other promissory notes with his partner, William O'Dench, and took over the brewery entirely. In the style of modern investment companies, they reorganized the company and continued production under the name E. Anheuser & Company .

A year later his daughter Lilly married the German immigrant Adolphus Busch from Kastel and his daughter Anna Busch's brother Ulrich in a double wedding. Adolphus began working as a salesman in his father-in-law's brewery in 1864. 1865 merged the E. Anheuser & Company with John B. Busch Brewing Company in Washington , Missouri, and Adolphus Busch was equal shareholder of Eberhard Anheuser. The Anheuser company was renamed the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association in 1879 , and Adolphus became its president the following year. He held this position for 33 years. In 1919 the name was changed again to Anheuser-Busch , the current name.

Familys

Eberhard Anheuser was married to Maria Dorothea Richter (* 1815-1818 Schöningen , Braunschweig; † 1854 St. Louis ). They had six children:

  • Cecily Anheuser
  • William Anheuser (* Feb. 16, 1836; † Jan. 17, 1901 St. Louis, Missouri), Professor of German Language at the University of Washington ⚭ Frances Lange (* Oct. 17, 1843 Ohio; † Aug. 28, 1910)
    • Alice Anheuser (March 18, 1869 St. Louis; † May 24, 1960 St. Louis), pianist ⚭ George Cosby Nall (* 1866; † 1922)
    • W. Fred Anheuser (born Jan. 16, 1871 St. Louis; † Dec. 13, 1948 St. Louis), 2nd Vice-President of Anheuser-Busch ⚭ Olga Straub (born Dec. 7, 1877 St. Louis; † 14. Dec. 1936 St. Louis)
  • Anna Anheuser (* 1838; † 8 Apr. 1916) ⚭ 7 March 1861 Ulrich Busch (* 1833 Mainz-Kastel ; † 1923), traded in brewery supplies in St. Louis
    • Edward Busch (* 1862)
    • Alfred Busch (* 1866)
    • Lillia Busch (* 1870)
    • Otto S. Busch (* 1871; † July 27, 1939) ⚭ Anne Busch
    • Franz Busch (* 1874)
    • Paula Busch (* 1877) ⚭ Marian Eberhard Franz Emil von Kleydorff alias Franz Egenieff
  • Adolph Anheuser (* 1840–1841; † 1886) ⚭ October 2, 1876 St. Louis Louisa Firmbach (* 1857)
    • Nellie Anheuser (* Sep. 1877)
    • Eberhard Anheuser (* May 1880 St. Louis)
    • Lillie Anheuser (born March 1882)
    • Dorothy Anheuser (* Aug. 1884)
    • Edmer Anheuser (* Aug. 1885) ⚭ Joseph M. Dooley (* January 31, 1895 - † March 27, 1943)
  • Elisa / Lilly Anheuser (* August 12, 1844 St. Louis; † Feb. 25, 1928 St. Louis) ⚭ March 7, 1861 Adolphus Busch (* July 10, 1839 Mainz-Kastel ; † October 10, 1913 Villa Lilly, Lindschied , Bad Schwalbach , buried St. Louis), founder of the Anheuser-Busch brewery, merger with Anheuser in 1865, gold wedding anniversary in 1911 with honors from US President Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II.
    • Gustav Busch (* 1861)
    • Nelly Busch (* 1863; † 1934) ⚭ I. Harry Weber; ⚭ II. Arthur Magnus
    • Edward Busch (* 1864; † 1879) ⚭ Anna Faust
    • August Busch, I. (* December 29, 1865 St. Louis; † February 10, 1934 St. Louis), took over the brewery from Adolphus; ( Prohibition 1920–1933) ⚭ Alice Edna Ziesemann (* 1866; † May 1958)
    • Adolphus Busch, II. (10 Jul. 1868 - 15 Apr. 1898 St. Louis)
    • Alexis Busch (* 1869; † 1869)
    • Peter Busch (* 1869)
    • Emilee Busch (* 1870; † 1870)
    • Edmee Busch (* 1871; † 1955) ⚭ Feb. 10, 1890 Hugo Reisinger (* 1856 Wiesbaden; † 1914), businessman, art collector, " Busch-Reisinger Museum " at Harvard University Boston
    • Peter Busch (born January 7, 1872 St. Louis - † May 21, 1905 St. Louis)
    • Martha Busch (* 1873; † 1873)
    • Anna Louise Busch (* 7 Feb. 1875 St. Louis; † 16 Apr. 1936 St. Louis) ⚭ Edward Faust (* 1869)
    • Clara Busch (born May 16, 1876 St. Louis; † June 26, 1959) ⚭ December 16, 1895 St. Louis Paul Theodor Eduard von Gontard (born November 4, 1868 Wesel; † December 21, 1941 St. Louis), Dr.-Ing., Landowner, secret senior building officer, entrepreneur.
    • Carl Busch (* 1879–1882; † April 8, 1915)
    • Wilhelmina Busch (born Jan. 10, 1884; † Nov. 23, 1952 in Munich, buried near her Höhenried Castle , Starnberger See ), acquired an estate in Bernried am Starnberger See in 1928 , on the grounds of which she had the Höhenried Castle built (today in large park nor Museum of Imagination (Buchheim Museum); ⚭ March 1st, 1906 Eduard Scharrer (born April 25, 1880 Stuttgart; † Sep. 20, 1932), Rittmeister, consul in the USA, divorced because of a lover; ⚭ II. December 24, 1933 Dr. Carl Borchard (* before 1946), personal physician, divorced in 1941; ⚭ III. Feb. 22, 1948 Sam Edison Woods (* 1892 Texas; † May 22, 1953, buried near Höhenried Castle, Starnberger See), American Consul General in Munich
  • August Anheuser (* December 19, 1845 Bad Kreuznach ; † January 11, 1905 Bad Kreuznach) ⚭ Klara Rother

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=196#_edn1
  2. ↑ http://www.anheuser.de/paul_anheuser_familiengeschichte.html
  3. ↑ Loan amount with which he supported the company in the early days, source: book Adam Hammer ein Baden Forty-eight, page 71; Streckfuß, Heimatverein Kraichgau 1998, ISBN 3-921214-15-7
personal data
SURNAME Anheuser, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American entrepreneur and brewery owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1880
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri