Johann Baptist Graeff

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Johann Baptist Graeff (born July 20, 1808 in Zell (Mosel) ; † January 21, 1884 ibid) was a German merchant and tobacco manufacturer.

Life

Johann Baptist was a son of the married couple Anton Joseph Christoph (1772–1855) and Maria Margarete Graeff born. Ebertz (1773-1820) who had been married since 1799. After finishing school from 1814 to 1822, he learned the trade of a businessman and then went into business for himself in Zell. At first he traded in salt , colonial goods , cloths - his father had previously owned a colonial and cloth shop - and from November 2, 1850 also in cigars and rolling tobacco . To this end, he opened a cigar factory, to which a manufacture for the production of rolling tobacco was attached.

The JB Graeff cigar factory founded in Zell existed until 1925, where Heinrich Neuerburg (1839–1901), the son of a tobacco industrialist, completed his traineeship from 1854 to 1857. In order to learn the craft of making cigars, he trained with his brother-in-law in Adenau. For his factory in Zell, which at that time did not yet have any machines, a corresponding number of workers from the surrounding area were employed who produced the cigars by hand. Since the business of trading in tobacco products turned out to be very lucrative, Graeff opened further branch factories in Briedel , Kaimt and Merl .

From 1868 onwards, two sons of Graeff, Otto and Roman began to set up their own cigars, founded the company JB Graeff Söhne in 1885 and built a new factory in Zell in the Schlossstrasse in the same year. The Zimmermann-Graeff winery later emerged from the marriage of the daughter Pauline, who had married Jakob Zimmermann from Zell .

family

Graeff had a sister Gertrude (1805–1890) and two brothers, Josef Erasmus (1803–1877) by profession a judge and Gottfried (1820–1900) who later became a judge. The mother Maria Graeff died a few months after the birth of Gottfried.

Johann Baptist Graeff later married Maria Gertrude, born in Adenau . Koll (1818–1903) and had 7 children with her. Otto Anton (1839–1917), Roman Anton (1841–1930), Bertha (1844–1867), Gertrude (1847–1906), Franz Xaver (1849–1906), Carl Heinrich (1855–1895) and Pauline (1857– 1908).

literature

  • Gerd Bayer, Heinz-Günther Böse and Alfons Friderichs (eds.): Graeff, Johann Baptist . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 131-132.

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personal data
SURNAME Graeff, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tobacco product manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell (Moselle)
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1884
Place of death Zell (Moselle)