Johann Böse (manufacturer)

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Johann Böse (born May 26, 1739 in Stotel ; † December 7, 1804 in Bremen ) was a German sugar manufacturer in Bremen.

Life

The son of a penniless small farmer in Stotel was hired as a worker by a distant relative in his Hamburg sugar factory when he was 17. With diligence and a thirst for education, Böse worked his way into the technology of sugar boiling , so that he best answered a prize question awarded by Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann , then advanced to the position of foreman in his Copenhagen sugar factory, the largest in Northern Europe, and also became a confidante of the wholesale merchant . This had made an enormous fortune , profiting from the Atlantic triangular trade . With his nephew Heinrich Ludwig von Schimmelmann , Böse went to the family's Danish-West Indian sugar cane plantations for three years in 1766 . The merciless conditions of slave labor that prevailed there are said to have led to conflicts and ultimately to the separation from the Schimmelmanns.

With the resources, experience and knowledge he gained there, Johann Böse went into business for himself in Bremen. In 1770 he acquired Bremen citizenship and set up a sugar boiler at Wachtstrasse 27, near the ship landing stage on the Schlachte . In 1772 he married Gesine Otten from near his place of birth, an able woman who continued the business of the flourishing refinery in the last years of Böses' life. Some of the brothers and nephews Böses brought into the company later set up as sugar manufacturers in Bremen. The Böse family played a dominant role in the not insignificant Bremen sugar trade. Heinrich Böse achieved some fame among his own children in the history of Bremen: in 1814 he set up the Bremen Voluntary Jäger Corps , which he led as a “captain” against Napoleon. After his mother's death in 1825, he sold his sugar factories and left Bremen.

literature

  • Margret Steinbrunn: Johann Böse and his family . Papierflieger-Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2010.
  • Horst Rössler: From sugar cane to sugar loaf - The Böse family and the Bremen sugar industry . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 2011, pp. 63–94.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Böse, Memories, [manuscript], State Archive Bremen 7,163-2
  2. ^ Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in Bremen Architecture . Bremen 1966, p. 313.
personal data
SURNAME Bad, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sugar manufacturer in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Stotel
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1804
Place of death Bremen