Jean Marie Farina
Johann Maria Farina (born August 22, 1809 ; † October 11, 1880 in Cologne ), known as Jean Marie Farina , also known as “Le Grand” (German: “The Great”) within his family, was a Cologne entrepreneur and manufacturer of colognes Water .
He is considered one of the most persistent pioneers of legal trademark protection in Germany . Almost four decades passed between his first efforts, a submission to the responsible Prussian ministerial bureaucracy in 1836, and the passing of the Reich Law.
In November 1874, the first trademark protection law was passed in the German Reichstag . It came into force on May 1, 1875. The oldest Cologne-based manufacturer of cologne, " Johann Maria Farina across from Jülichs-Platz " , was the first company in Cologne to register its labels for trademark registration.
biography
Social life
He always took an active part in the bourgeois and sociable life of the city of Cologne. He developed special activities “In the casino society” (founded in 1809). The “Concert Society”, of which he was a long-time member, also met here. His close circle of friends included Eberhard von Groote , the president of the Cologne poor administration , Heinrich von Wittgenstein , with whom he was distantly related through his brother-in-law Peter Heinrich Merkens , and also Peter Leven .
When he, together with Wittgenstein and others, renewed the malevolent carnival in the form of the “romantic carnival” in 1823, Farina was still too young to take part; his uncle Johann Baptist Farina (1758–1844), however, was one of the group of new founders. A descendant of other Italian immigrants - and also an Eau de Cologne manufacturer - Emanuel Zanoli , was a "hero" during the first ten years of the romantic carnival with the great council, "organizing committee" and Rose Monday parades with changing motto continuously "Prince Carnival". called. Farina never took on this role.
engagement
Johann Maria Farina was one of the most respected and wealthy Cologne companies of its time. As such, he was a Cologne-water manufacturer, and he primarily remained that way when, in the early and high industrialization period, there were many offers to invest in industrial, insurance or transport companies. Farina was very reserved here. In the year it was founded, he signed four shares in the Aktiengesellschaft der Rheinische Eisenbahn , but later on he is very rarely found on management or supervisory boards of new corporations, as in the 1850s as a member of the board of directors of the Cologne Reinsurance Company. From 1850 to 1862 Farina was a member of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce.
In 1875, Farina arranged a “dreadful opera” for the “Cäcilia Wolkenburg” Singspiel community, which emerged from the Cologne Men's Singing Association in 1874 and which has since regularly performed musical antics (divertissements) on its own stage: “Richmodis von Aducht und der Sängerkrieg auf the Neumarkt ”. With this opera, the Divertissementchen appeared for the first time in the Cologne city theater in 1875 , and this was - according to the chronicle - "the most pleasant carnival pleasure of the session".
Jean Marie Farina was a very musical person. But he was also actively involved in promoting urban musical life. He was a member of the board of the musical society as well as the Rheinische Musikschule , later the Conservatory for Music, which was soon given European status through Ferdinand Hiller .
In addition to music, Farina also promoted painting . In 1838 he was a co-founder of the Kölnischer Kunstverein with Eberhard von Groote and later Heinrich von Wittgenstein at its head. The association wanted to promote art, stimulate and spread the sense of art and not take any particular schools into consideration. Exhibitions were organized, works of art "which were suitable for private ownership" were bought and they were raffled among the members. The opening of the museum built by the wealthy Cologne wildskin importer Johann Heinrich Richartz for the Wallraf Collection in August 1861 was combined with a great exhibition of contemporary art.
In addition to music and the fine arts, JM Farina, like so many important entrepreneurs in Cologne, campaigned for the continued construction of Cologne Cathedral . In the founding year of 1842, he was a member of the seven-person administrative committee of the Central Cathedral Building Association in Cologne .
Jean Marie Farina died on October 11, 1880 at the age of 71 in Cologne, four days before the celebrations for the completion of the cathedral.
He was married to Marie Josephine DuMont.
literature
- Robert Steimel: Versippt with Cologne I , Steimel Verlag Köln-Zollstock 1955, plate 48
- Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm: "Kölner Personen Lexikon" 2008, Greven Verlag Cologne, page 148f, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0
- Dietrich Taubert: Farina, Johann Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 25 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Marie Farina in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eau de Cologne
- family tree
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farina, Jean Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farina, Johann Maria (real name); Le Grand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Perfume manufacturer and trademark protector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1880 |
| Place of death | Cologne |