Jakob Mack

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Jakob Mack's letterhead, with lithograph of the company premises around 1910

Jakob Mack also Jacob Mack (born October 5, 1824 in Grünstadt ; † 1907 in Neustadt an der Haardt ) was a German entrepreneur and pasta manufacturer.

life and work

Advertisement for the pasta company Jakob Mack with the advertising slogan “Germany's oldest egg pasta factory ” .

Jakob Mack was born in Grünstadt in the Bavarian Palatinate and learned the trade of a businessman.

In 1851, Mack took over the Saume confectionery and the Kastner pasta factory in nearby Neustadt an der Haardt (today "Neustadt an der Weinstrasse" ), a long-established business that had been founded in 1758 by Johann Jakob Hassieur.

Mack only concentrated on the production of pasta, especially ready-made noodles , a food that was popular with the general public at the time. Due to the constant expansion of the company and new production methods, the company enjoyed an enormous upswing and became one of the leading pasta manufacturers in southern Germany. Since the factory was founded in 1758 and was thus the oldest continuously operated company in this branch in Germany, Jakob Mack was also able to advertise with the slogan “Germany's oldest egg pasta factory” . This fact was used publicly on the pasta packaging, billboards, advertisements and the like. The main product was small-format noodles, which were used especially as a soup and which gained national recognition under the brand name "Macka" . Mack's macaroni , a new type of pasta product in Germany at the time and sold as “Ännchen macaroni”, were also well known.

Jakob Mack died in Neustadt in 1907, and his company existed - later as a KG - until the 1960s. In 1923, during the inflation, the company even issued its own banknotes, so-called emergency notes , in the absence of sufficient state funds. At its best, the company employed around 120 people, including around 80 women. The book "School, Economic and Social History of the Palatinate" , Volume 2, states: "Everyone in the Palatinate knew and valued Mack noodles back then."

At the time of Mack KG, Walter Engelmann and Georg Henrich acted as company owners. Both had married a daughter of Jakob Mack. Since 1959, Kurt Engelmann, along with Heinz Henrich and his brother Robert Henrich from Neustadt, the sons of Walter Engelmann and Georg Henrich, were the new company bosses. Kurt Engelmanng held the offices of chairman of the Association of the German Pasta Industry in Frankfurt am Main and of the Association of the Food Industry of the Palatinate.

literature

  • Walter Lampert: "1100 Years of Grünstadt" , Grünstadt City Administration, 1975, page 380
  • Werner Weidmann : School, economic and social history of the Palatinate. Volume 2, page 764, Verlag Arbogast, Otterbach 1999, ISBN 3870222778
  • Historical Association of the Palatinate: “Yearbook on the History of the City and District of Kaiserslautern” , Volume 34–35, 1998, page 155

Web links

Commons : Jakob Mack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "School, economic and social history of the Palatinate" , Volume 2, page 764, Verlag Arbogast, Otterbach, 1999
  2. ^ "Who is who?" , Volume 13, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 1958
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mack, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur, pasta maker
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1907
Place of death Neustadt an der Weinstrasse