Eduard Messmer
Eduard Meßmer (* 1824 ; † October 15, 1910 in Baden ) was a German entrepreneur and is considered a pioneer of the German tea trade .
biography
Messmer was the son of the Baden-Baden hotelier Johann Friedrich Baptist Messmer. On September 21, 1852 he opened a delicatessen and grocery store in Baden-Baden , where he offered various types of tea, among other things. The Messmer tea trading company later developed from the shop .
In 1884 Messmer became purveyor to the court of Wilhelm of Prussia . In 1886 he opened a branch in Frankfurt am Main , which was run by his son Otto Meßmer (* 1858) and was already specialized in tea. In 1895, Messmer registered the name “Thee Meßmer” as a trademark and thus received the first German tea brand.
literature
- Franz Lerner: Messmer, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 223 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bad-bad.de/gesch/messmer.htm
- ↑ The history of the brand. (No longer available online.) Messmer Tee, 2011, archived from the original on September 26, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Messmer, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1824 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1910 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |