Eduard Werle

Eduard Werle

Eduard (Mathias) Werle ( Mathieu Édouard Werlé ) (born October 30, 1801 in Wetzlar , † June 6, 1884 in Reims ) was a businessman and French politician.

His parents were Johann Adam Werle, post holder in Hattersheim am Main and post director in Wetzlar and his wife Eva Katharina born. Pelzer from Ladenburg. His older sister Barbara Maria Werle (1787–1871) married Franz in 1809, of the Gedult von Jungsfeld family .

In 1821, as an orphan with an inheritance of 15,000 livres , he began his apprenticeship at the Clicquot champagne house in Reims. Louis Bohne had died here shortly before.

Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (1777-1866), the daughter of the mayor of Reims, Nicolas Ponsardin (1747-1820), had married François Clicquot in 1798, heir to a champagne house founded in Reims in 1772. When her husband died in 1805 and his father wanted to sell the company, the widow (“Veuve” in French) was able to persuade him to give her the management.

Werle turned out to be an organizational talent and took over the management of the winery after a short time.

On the one hand, Mme. Clicquot's daughter and the penniless but pleasure-seeking son-in-law, whom she repeatedly helped him out of a mess with a lot of money, temporarily led the champagne house to the brink of bankruptcy. On the other hand, the in-house bank Clicquot had invested customer funds with a well-known Parisian bank. When this Parisian bank proved insolvent, customers wanted their money back. At the beginning of 1829 Mme. Clicquot had retired to the country and Werle traveled to Paris, guaranteed with his personal fortune, in order to obtain a credit from a third bank for the ailing bank Clicquot. He personally unlocked the doors, paid everyone who came his money and was able to calm the minds. After the Clicquot Bank was gradually closed, the loss was limited to 270,000 francs.

Werle rose to become sales manager. In 1828 he brought his godchild Ignaz Schweickardt to Reims as a trained cooper, but who left France again in 1830 because of the July Revolution .

Hotel du Marc

In 1831 Madame Clicquot made him a new partner. To do this, they founded a company into which each paid 100,000 francs. Clicquot brought in her buildings and wines, but remained the owner.

In 1836 he married Louise Emilie Boisseau (1815–1876) in Reims. He became mayor of Reims from 1852–1868, president of the Chamber of Commerce and a deputy in parliament. Mme. Clicquot had bequeathed the company to him and his son Alfred Werlé. Their family house, which they had also received from Mme. Clicquot, later became the Hôtel du Marc . Alfred's house became the Hôtel Werlé .

supporting documents

1. ↑ Mainz magazine. Volumes 87-88, p. 301.
2. ↑ nassauerhof-hattersheim.de
3. ↑ posthofkeller.de
4. ↑ Hans-Werner Hahn: From the widow's assistant to the head of the Cliquot house. The career of the Wetzlar postman's son Eduard Werle (1801–1884) in Reims. In: Messages from the Wetzlar History Association. 46, 2013, pp. 53-69.
5. ↑ markenschaetze.de ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ M. Köster: Brilliant balance sheets: five entrepreneurs and their life stories. P. 60 ( [1] ).
7. ↑ life story. zeit.de; "Her successor Eduard Werle (Werlé) from Wetzlar rescued her from the ruin of her bank in 1825."
8. ^ Veuve Clicquot champagner.com; “The bank in Paris, where the Clicquot fortune was administered, collapsed in 1828. Werlé put his own fortune on the line to satisfy pressing creditors. Madame Clicquot only found out about Werlé's gesture afterwards and subsequently appointed Werlé as a partner in the Clicquot family. "
9. ↑ asiaone.com