Gussie Busch

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August Anheuser "Gussie" Busch Jr. (born March 28, 1899 in St. Louis , Missouri, † September 29, 1989 there ) was an American brewer who ran the Anheuser-Busch Companies from 1946 to 1975 as managing director Shareholder expanded to become the largest brewery in the world.

Life

Busch's father was the American brewery entrepreneur August Anheuser Busch , his grandfather was Adolphus Busch , who was the first to use the pasteurization method on beer, and his great-grandfather was Eberhard Anheuser .

Busch's professional training began at the lowest level of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis. In 1924 he was appointed production manager and, after the death of his father in 1934, director of the brewery department. After the death of his older brother Adolphus Busch in 1946, he also took over his functions as President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Companies . He handed over these functions to his son August Anheuser Busch in May 1975 .

From 1953, Busch devoted himself increasingly to his favorite club, St. Louis Cardinals . He was married four times and had a total of eleven children. Two of his marriages were divorced.

literature

  • Peter Hernon & Terry Ganey: Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty. Avon Books, 1992.
  • Julie Macintosh : Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, An American Icon. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2010.
  • William Knoedelseder : Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer. HarperBusiness, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holian, Timothy J. “Adolphus Busch.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present , vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute. Last modified August 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Gussie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busch, August Anheuser junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American brewery owner
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1989
Place of death St. Louis