Jacobs (entrepreneurial family)

Jacobs is the name of a German entrepreneurial family that comes from Borgfeld . The family can be traced in Borgfeld from 1581. Johann Jacobs was a merchant and opened in 1895 in Bremen a grocery store who acted among others with coffee and tea, cocoa and chocolate. The company was continued by his nephew Walther J. Jacobs from 1958. In 1982 Jacobs Kaffee merged with the Swiss Interfood AG, which included Tobler and Suchard. Jacobs Suchard was sold to Kraft Foods in 1990 by Klaus J. Jacobs to pay off his siblings.

Today the family is mainly associated with the chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut (30% stake) and the temporary employment agency Adecco . Andreas Jacobs has been on the Barry Callebaut Board of Directors since 2005. With a fortune of around 11.2 billion euros, the family is one of the richest Germans .

Louise Jacobs, a granddaughter of Walther J. Jacobs, published a family story in 2006. It also describes the lineage of the Sephardic-Jewish family Jessurun, who had to emigrate because of the National Socialists.

genealogy

Daniel Jacobs (1839–1908) married to Adelheid (1838–1871)
- Johann Jacobs (1869-1958)
- Jacob Jacobs (1866-1952)
  - Walther J. Jacobs (1907-1998) and Lore
    - Klaus Johann Jacobs (1936-2008)
      - Johan Christian Jacobs (born 1962)
      - Andreas Jacobs (born 1963)
      - Lavinia Jacobs (born 1980)
      - Nicolas Jacobs (born 1982)
      - Philipp Jacobs (born 1984)
      - Nathalie Jacobs (born 1985)
    - Bärbel Jacobs (born 1939)
    - Petra Stelling née Jacobs (* 1943)
    - Jens Jacobs (born 1947) and Margit Grobin
      - Louise Jacobs (born 1982)

literature

Louise Jacobs : Café Heimat: the story of my family. Ullstein, Berlin 2006 (1st edition, later further editions), ISBN 3-550-07871-4 .
Svenja Kunze and Alexander Schug : Jacobs Coffee ... wonderful - A coffee story from Bremen (PDF; 939 kB), accessed on May 14, 2012

Individual evidence

^ Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode: New German biography. Volume 10 ( online )
↑ ^a ^b ^c Manager Magazin ( online )
↑ These are the 30 richest Germans.
^ Die Zeit online ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); (PDF; 1.8 MB)
↑ Jüdische Zeitung ( online ( memento of October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))
↑ FAZ ( online )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e http://jacobsfoundation.org/de/fuhrungswechsel-in-der-jacobs-gruppe/

[1] Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode: New German biography. Volume 10 ( online )

[mm1-2] Manager Magazin ( online )

[3] These are the 30 richest Germans.

[4] Die Zeit online ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); (PDF; 1.8 MB)

[5] Jüdische Zeitung ( online ( memento of October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))

[6] FAZ ( online )

[jacobs-7] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e http://jacobsfoundation.org/de/fuhrungswechsel-in-der-jacobs-gruppe/