Field pharmacist (liquor)
The field pharmacist (also "field pharmacist from 1870 - 71") is a noble liqueur whose recipe originally comes from Silesia. After the Second World War , the Glaßmann family moved to Grevenbroich as the owners of the recipe , where the liqueur is still produced and sold today.
History of origin
The recipe for the field pharmacist comes from Gustav Schauffert, who is said to have sent a whole keg to the main headquarters in Versailles during the Franco-German War of 1870–1871 . The siege troops there suffered from gastrointestinal complaints and Schauffert hoped to be able to alleviate the symptoms with the liqueur, which apparently also succeeded. On February 3, 1871, Schauffert received from the Great Headquarters from the Court Marshal's Office of the Crown Prince and later Emperor Friedrich III. a letter of thanks that is still in the family's possession today.
The field pharmacist owned by the Glaßmann family
In 1920 Franz Glaßmann bought the recipe for the liqueur and sold it to his customers from Neumittelwalde in the Groß Wartenberg district. In 1936 he registered the spirit with the Reich Patent Office in Munich as a health liqueur and thus secured it as a patent.
After the expulsion, the family moved to North Rhine-Westphalia and settled in Grevenbroich, where a spirits and liqueur factory was set up and production started again. Today the liqueur is produced and sold by Nadine Peter in Grevenbroich.
literature
- Manfred Ganschinietz: Grevenbroich restaurants in the old days . Edited by Manfred Ganschinietz and Dieter Kaltz. Grevenbroich 2007 (Contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich 19), pp. 130–132.