Friedrich Berentzen

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Friedrich Josef Maria Berentzen (born September 11, 1928 in Haselünne ; † February 20, 2009 in Bad Rothenfelde ) was a German spirits manufacturer. He brought the apple grain onto the market as an independent product.

Life

Friedrich Berentzen was born in 1928 as the second oldest of nine children of Johannes Bernhard Berentzen (1899–1954) and his wife Anna, née. Kerckhoff (1903–1968) born. Hermann Kerckhoff was his uncle. Immediately after the end of the Second World War he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

In 1954, after the death of his father, he and his brother Hans Berentzen took over the management of their parents' company. In 1958 they both founded Emsland-Getränke, a second mainstay in the field of non-alcoholic beverages. This development was expanded in 1960 with the takeover of the Pepsi-Cola license for Germany. The spirits entrepreneur developed the Berentzen apple grain together with his brother. This was celebrated in 1976 as the most successful launch of a German spirit after World War II. In 1988 the brothers merged with Pabst & Richarz. He was the technical director of the Berentzen Group until the early 1990s .

Friedrich Berentzen also accompanied the strategic decisions after the merger of the two family businesses. As the only company in the German spirits industry to date, Hans and Friedrich Berentzen listed the family company on the stock exchange in 1994. When the majority in the company was sold to the financial investor Aurelius AG in 2008 , he remained - now as a minority company - with his shares in the 250-year-old family company.

Since 1961 he was with Dorothea (called Doris ) geb. Heydt (* 1940) married. The marriage has three children.

Friedrich Berentzen died on the morning of February 20, 2009 in Bad Rothenfelde, after having recently undergone heart surgery.

Engagements

Friedrich Berentzen was a member of the CDU . From 1971 to 1991 he was represented in the city council of Haselünne, from 1976 to 1981 parliamentary group leader of the CDU. From 1981 to 1991 he was mayor in Haselünne. In addition to his political work, he was committed to town twinning with Elburg , Netherlands, and Saint-Flour (Cantal) , France.

Above all, he tried, together with his brother Hans, to design the cityscape of his hometown. He campaigned for inclusion in the Lower Saxony urban redevelopment program. As chairman of the Haselünner Heimatverein for many years (since 1956), he drove the construction of the Heimatmuseum (inauguration in 1961) and the expansion of the open-air museum, for which old arable and farmhouses were bought and redesigned. He also rescued the dilapidated Burgmannshöfe and had them renovated for use as a hotel or restaurant. In 1987 he was awarded the "Silver Hemisphere" by the German National Committee for Monument Protection . In 2006 he and his wife Doris received the 2006 Landscape Medal from the " Emsland Landscape ". He was a bearer of the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .

Berentzen held numerous honorary positions, was an honorary citizen and honorary mayor of his hometown Haselünne. For over 55 years he was a member of the Social Association Germany .

Friedrich Berentzen became a member of the KDStV Nassovia Darmstadt in the CV during his studies in 1949 , later also the KDStV Rheno-Bavaria Cologne, the KDStV Asgard (Düsseldorf) in Cologne, the KAV Suevia Berlin and the AV Cheruscia in Münster, all in the CV.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Farewell to the inventor of the apple grain" , Hagen Seidel in Welt Online , February 25, 2009, accessed on December 10, 2011.
  2. ^ "German Prize for Monument Protection 2008" , German National Committee for Monument Protection, November 19, 2008
  3. ↑ "Landscape Medal 2006 - Honor for Cultural Commitment" , Emsländische Landschaft, viewed on February 21, 2009
  4. ^ Meppener Tagespost: Obituary from February 23, 2009
  5. ↑ At the crucial moment the citizens mobilized. In: Osnabrück newspaper. February 23, 2009, archived from the original on February 25, 2009 ; Retrieved July 16, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Berentzen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berentzen, Friedrich Josef Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spirits manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Haselünne
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2009
Place of death Bad Rothenfelde