Feist sparkling wine cellar
The Feist Sektkellerei AG had its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main . The successor company "Feist Belmont'sche Sektkellerei GmbH" based in Trier is now a subsidiary of the " Sektkellerei Schloss Wachenheim ".
history
In 1795 the Jews from Koblenz , Josef Feist (?? - 1795), his son Löb Josef Feist (1770-1816) and - two years later (1797) - Josef's relative Moses Feist , all called Schuppach (also Schubach ) , with his wife Taubchen , née Callmann from Trier, all Kurtrier protector Jews , settled on the recommendation of Archduke Carl as the first Jewish wine merchants in Frankfurt's Judengasse . Due to the continental barrier , it was soon no longer possible to handle the transport and trade of French red wine via the German seaports. Instead, this wine was now delivered overland via Frankfurt.
In 1828, Feist's grandsons founded the company “Gebrüder Feist & Söhne”, a “factory of sparkling Rhine and Moselle wines” , headquartered in 1868 at Neue Mainzerstraße 40 in Frankfurt. Decades later, from July 1908 as "Feist-Sektkellerei AG ", the company had become one of the most successful and well-known sparkling wine cellars in the German Empire . Alfred Feist-Belmont (1883–1945) headed the company in 1914 when the First World War began. He engaged with the graphic artist Emil Doepler jun. , who designed the Prussian royal crown for Kaiser Wilhelm II , and Carl Tips were the best designers of his time and gained a strong competitive advantage through intensive advertising.
Business was accelerated with patriotic motifs and the “Feist Feldgrau” sparkling wine brand specially bottled for the fighting army. The labels show fliers who celebrate their victories at "Feist Feldgrau in the field" and a soldier , dragging a box "Feist Cabinet Hochgewächs" through the forest. In the last year of the war, however, the sparkling wine cellar could no longer deliver.
During the Nazi era and World War II , the sparkling wine cellar was resold several times. From August 1941 the company was called "Feist-Belmont'sche Sektkellerei AG", later it was relocated to Trier as "Feist Belmont'sche Sektkellerei GmbH".
literature
- Barbara Kaufhold: Feist Feldgrau , in: Kalonymos , issue 2/2009, Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut (ed.), Duisburg 2009, ISSN 1436-1213
See also
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Feist sparkling wine cellars in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
References and comments
- ↑ Information from HWPH AG
- ↑ Andrea Hopp: Jewish bourgeoisie in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century , page 41, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3515069852 or ISBN 978-3515069854 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: New in the West , page 155 (footnote 539 + 542), 2003 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Alfred Feist-Belmont had converted to Christianity and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 .