Jakob Latscha
Jakob Latscha (born March 4, 1849 in Friedelsheim , † November 5, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Frankfurt merchant and patron .
Life
Jakob Latscha came from a Mennonite family who had come to the Palatinate from the Swiss Simmental via Alsace at the beginning of the 18th century. He was born on the Schowalterhof in Friedelsheim near Bad Dürkheim . He came to Frankfurt via Mannheim and Essen .
Like many merchants of his time, Latscha was involved in social housing and as a patron of the arts. The Frankfurt entrepreneur founded the property company Marioth-GmbH around 1900. In doing so, he planned to promote home ownership for the "little man". 1904 began in Dreieich with the construction of the villa settlement Buchschlag near Sprendlingen , one of the most important architectural ensembles of Art Nouveau in Germany, and in 1911 with the country house colony Waldheim in Rumpenheim . Latscha also bought the Lohwald , which at that time belonged to Rumpenheim . Marioth GmbH sells this to the city of Offenbach during the First World War , which did not use the area for first-time settlement until the late 1920s.
Latscha died in Frankfurt am Main in 1912. He was buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt . A street in Dreieich-Buchschlag and since 2009 one in Frankfurt's Ostend is named after Jakob Latscha.
Company history
Tote bag from the 1970s
In Frankfurt am Main, Latscha founded his own colonial goods and agricultural products shop in 1882 on Allerheiligenstrasse in downtown Frankfurt . In 1892 there were seven branches in the city, in 1912 there were already 72. The grocery stores offered cheap prices because they bought their goods directly from the producer. The " cover letter " was no longer possible in his stores, it had to be paid for in cash . The company logo - the three L placed on top of one another - symbolized the advertising slogan “Latscha delivers food” developed by Jakob Latscha.
The Jakob Latscha KG company existed until the 1970s as a regional food retail chain in the Rhine-Main area. In 1973 the family business consisted of over 250 branches, as well as petrol stations, fast food restaurants, department stores and car washes. In 1977 the company was sold to the Leibbrand Group . Since then, the branches have been operated under the HL-Markt brand ; in the meantime - as far as they still exist today - after the complete takeover of the Leibbrand Group by the REWE Group in 1989, they have been renamed REWE .
The former headquarters in Frankfurt's Ostend between Hanauer Landstrasse and East Harbor belonged from 1978 the former drinks - Wholesale Alexander Loulakis . It has housed the Frankfurt Atelierhaus Atelierfrankfurt eV since 2014. The association has made around 130 studio rooms available to artists and creative people at reduced rents in the converted former Latscha warehouse.
literature
- Franz Lerner: Latscha, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 684 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Storm: Jakob Latscha - businessman and social reformer: 1849–1912 . Self-published by the author, book cover 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060015-9 .
Web links
- Latscha, Jakob. Hessian biography. (As of March 4, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Latscha, Jakob in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ^ From Waggonhausen to the Garden City , Frankfurter Rundschau of May 29, 2008
- ^ District historian Wolfgang Storm in the Frankfurter Rundschau
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Latscha, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedelsheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1912 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |