Eduard Otto Moser

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Bonbons & Chokolade-Fabrik EO Moser & Cie , Stuttgart, wood engraving of chocolate production , 1879

Eduard Otto Moser (born May 24, 1818 in Stuttgart , † February 8, 1879 in Stuttgart) was a German confectioner and entrepreneur in the food industry , he is one of the first chocolate and candy manufacturers in Württemberg . Moser initiated the establishment of the first association of German chocolate manufacturers in 1877 and became its chairman.

job

Note: Most of the information in this and the next section is based on # Lämmle 1941 .

Eduard Otto Moser was procurator in Stuttgart on May 24, 1818, the son of the upper tribunal procurator K. Chr. Moser and his wife Marie Dor. Violinist born. After learning the confectioner's trade, he went on a journeyman hike , first to Heidelberg , Basel and Bern and in 1836 to Paris . He stayed there for ten years and "in the course of this time, thanks to his ability, he was able to lead the" four largest establishments "as" boss "".

In 1846 he returned to Stuttgart and founded a "confectionery and chocolate shop" on Tübinger Strasse. Around 1859 he acquired the building at Calwer Strasse 35, which he also moved into as a residential building. He began the "factory-made production of sweets and chocolate products". Moser soon enlarged the original company and also acquired additional company buildings on Kronprinzenstrasse. Its sales grew steadily - in line with the economic situation of the early days .

Villa Moser, garden facade, before 1870

When Moser died in 1879, 250 people were employed in his factory. The wood engraving, Chocolate Production , which was made in the year of his death, shows a factory of considerable size. After Moser's death, his widow sold the factory on August 1, 1879 for 671,644 marks to the four previous long-term employees, O. Dörr , J. Weber , A. Bezold and G. Weiß , who initially continued to run it. On May 2, 1894, Moser's business was started with the Wilhelm Roth jr. under the company United Chocolade- und Bonbonsfabriken von EO Moser & Cie. and Wilhelm Roth jr. united, later abbreviated to Moser-Roth , Vereinigte Schokolade-Fabriken .

effect

Eduard Otto Moser (also popularly known as “Bonboles-Moser”) is one of the pioneers of chocolate and candy production in Württemberg. In addition to the Moser brand (later Moser-Roth), the following chocolate brands, which are still famous today, were founded around the middle of the 19th century:

  • Wilhelm Roth Jr. (before 1841 until after 1875) founded his first company in 1841, which merged with Eduard Otto Moser's company in 1894.
  • The brothers Franz Waldbaur (1808–1866) and Gustav Waldbaur (1814–1861) founded the Waldbaur brand in 1848 .
  • Ernst Staengel and his brother-in-law Karl Ziller launched the Eszet brand in 1857 .

In an obituary for Eduard Otto Moser in the Schwäbischer Merkur newspaper , his importance for the Württemberg chocolate and candy industry is recognized: “[He] will always be mentioned in close connection with these two branches of industry with which he, an energetic self-made man , is involved has brought it to the height that it can claim today ”.

Eduard Otto Moser, "who had always been strict about genuine and good goods", initiated the establishment of the first Association of German Chocolate Manufacturers in Frankfurt am Main in 1877 in response to the counterfeiting of food using cocoa substitutes that appeared around 1876 in order to enforce a purity law for cocoa products. The association, which 26 of 45 company owners joined, was chairman of the association until his death in 1879. At his suggestion, a “trademark was introduced that guaranteed unadulterated good goods”.

Private life

Moser's tomb

Moser married on October 12, 1847 in Tübingen (Marie) Friederike geb. Härtner (born March 26, 1824 in Tübingen, † August 10, 1903 in Stuttgart), the daughter of the soap boiler Johannes Martin Härter . The marriage remained childless.

In 1875, Moser had the architect Johann Wendelin Braunwald build what was later known as the Villa Moser , a “befitting” residential building in the neo-renaissance style in the middle of what is now known as the Leibfried Garden .

Moser died on February 8, 1879 at the age of 60 in Stuttgart, where he and his wife are buried in a representative family grave on the Prague cemetery in section 4. The tomb was designed by the architect Robert von Reinhardt , the angel statue and the bronze door by the sculptor Theodor Bausch .

literature

  • Architects' Association at the Kgl. Polytechnikum in Stuttgart (Ed.): Architectural Studies , Book 55 (approx. 1881/1891), Sheet 1. (Tomb)
  • Family Register of the City of Stuttgart, Volume 13, Sheet 115 (Eduard Otto Moser), Volume 23, Sheet 1118 (K. Chr. Moser), Stuttgart City Archives, 2013.
  • Egid Fleck: From the history of today's “Mohren” pharmacy in Möhringen on the Fildern . In: Armin Wankmüller (Ed.): Contributions to the history of pharmacies in Württemberg. Volume VI, Issue 1 (June 1963), page 4.
  • Franz Karl Huber: Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Württemberg Chamber of Commerce, Part II: Large-scale industry and wholesaling in Württemberg. Stuttgart 1910, page 45.
  • Gabriele Kreuzberger: Factory buildings in Stuttgart. Their development from the middle of the 19th century to the First World War. Stuttgart 1993, pages 387-394.
  • August Lämmle: Looking back on the 100th anniversary of the Moser-Roth company, dedicated to its business friends, 1841–1941. Stuttgart 1941. (New edition Stuttgart 2004), in particular pages 12–16. ( Digitized version )
  • Schwäbischer Merkur, Schwäbische Kronik , No. 36 of February 11, 1879, page 281. (Obituary)
  • Schwäbischer Merkur, Schwäbische Kronik , No. 183 of August 3, 1879, page 1417. (Note on the sale of Moser's factory to his employees)
  • Manfred Schmid: City history (s). A book accompanying the permanent exhibition of the Stuttgart City Archives. Stuttgart 1995, pages 84-85.
  • Werner Skrentny (ed.), Ralf Arbogast: Stuttgart on foot. 20 city district forays through history and the present. Tübingen 2011, page 275, page 388, page 400 f.
  • P. St .: A hike into the realm of sugar and chocolate. (EO Moser & Cie. Stuttgart - chocolate production). In: Über Land und Meer, Allgemeine Illustrirte Zeitung , 82nd year, 1879, No. 13, pages 1–3. ( Digitized version )
  • Rolf Ulbrich : Eduard Otto Moser, the aristocrat of German chocolate. In: Jürgen Hagel (Ed.): Stuttgart Archive. (in eight deliveries) o. O. (Braunschweig) 1989–1996, 04.021.
  • A dining pleasure. Stuttgart from the chocolate side. Achim Wörner and Michael Steinert (photos) went on a foray into the history of the cocoa industry in the state capital. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , No. 116 of May 20, 2000, page 36.
  • Hie good Württemberg all the time! A memory book for the 25th anniversary of the government of Sr. Majesty King Wilhelm II of Württemberg October 6, 1891 to 1916. Stuttgart undated (1917), page 32, page 131.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Details from the wood engraving with a higher resolution: #Wirtemberg 2013 .
  2. ↑ #Family Register 2013 .
  3. ↑ # Lämmle 1941 , page 14.
  4. ↑ #Schmid 1995 , page 85.
  5. ↑ #Schmid 1995 , page 85.
  6. ↑ #Merkur 1879.2 .
  7. ↑ #Skrentny 2011 , page 400.
  8. ↑ #spot 1963 .
  9. ↑ #Merkur 1879.1 .
  10. ↑ # Lämmle 1941 , page 15.
  11. ↑ # Lämmle 1941 , page 16.
  12. ↑ # Family Register 2013 .
  13. ↑ #Merkur 1879.2 .
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Eduard Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German confectioner and entrepreneur in the confectionery industry
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1879
Place of death Stuttgart