Heinrich Eppers

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Heinrich Eppers (born 5 February 1842 in the United Biewende in Wolfenbüttel ; died 4. February 1912 in Linden before Hannover ) was a German brandy - producer and steam mills operators.

Life

Heinrich Eppers, born at the beginning of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover near Wolfenbüttel, initially ran a brandy distillery in the village of List in 1878 , and between 1880 and 1881 he moved it to the property at Wunstorfer Straße 135 in Limmer, the house number of which was later changed to number 27 . Located on the eastern part of Wunstorfer Strasse, where he also built a steam mill , he was one of the first larger entrepreneurs and manufacturers in the village of Limmer at the time . Soon the older Limmer windmill was no longer able to withstand the competition from the then modern Epperschen steam mill .

In 1882 the products of the Epperschen brandy distillery were honored at the Hanover culinary art exhibition.

After 1888, Heinrich Eppers had the residential building Wunstorfer Strasse 35, which is still preserved today, built. Around ten years later, in 1898, he sold the property to the merchant Valentin Beckmann, who opened a grocery store in the house .

Meanwhile, “H. Eppers, distillery owner, and comrade to Limmer near Hanover ”, like other interest groups of his time, sent a petition to the German Reichstag in the legislative period of 1885/86 , which was directed against the introduction of a spirits monopoly .

From around 1910, Eppers was - together with other entrepreneurs from Limmer and Linden - a partner in the charging station Küchengarten GmbH . After his death in 1912 the Epperschen enterprise was continued by his descendants; including the charging point at the kitchen garden until around 1920 . From around 1929 to around 1949, Wilhelm Eppers was the owner of the distillery and owner of the property on Wunstorfer Strasse. Then Charlotte Eppers owned the property and until 1960 ran the distillery together with the liqueur factory Hans-Joachim Engel as its owner.

On Wunstorfer Strasse, "the old lettering from Eppers grain brandy distillery is said to have been preserved for a long time."

Eppersstrasse

The street that was laid out in Limmer on the Epperschen production site around 1900 and leads from Wunstorfer Strasse to Weidestrasse was initially named Adolfstrasse . While Heinrich Eppers was still alive, the traffic route was renamed Eppersstrasse after the entrepreneur "whose distillery and steam mill were here".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Eppersstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 72
  2. ^ Address book, city and business handbook of the royal residence city of Hanover for 1878, section I, part III: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and trading companies , p. 357; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  3. ↑ a b c d e Andreas Andrew-Bornemann: Lindener trade and industrial companies from 1880-1899 - listing with some key data on the companies - / around 1880 Heinrich Eppers steam grain brandy distillery in Limmer near Hanover on the postcard archive page .de [undated], last accessed on July 17, 2020
  4. ↑ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Limmer / History and Development In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 156
  5. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Die Windmühle von Limmer , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 50 (1996), 259ff .; here: p. 274; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichtstag. 6th legislative term. II. Session 1885/86 (= negotiations of the German Reichstag , vol. 86), volume 4, Berlin 1886, printed by Julius Sittenfeld, p. 535; Digitized by the Bavarian State Library
  7. ↑ Rainer Ertel : There was something there. Looking for traces in Hanover , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-8020-5 , p. 64; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Eppers, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, brandy distiller and steam mill operator
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Biewende near Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1912
Place of death Hanover