Johann Friedrich Miethe

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Sample label of the steam chocolate from JF Miethe

Johann Friedrich Miethe (born June 1, 1791 in Halle ; † October 24, 1832 in Potsdam ) was a Lebküchler in Potsdam and from 1828 was the first to produce chocolate with the help of a steam engine , the so-called steam chocolate .

Life

Johann Friedrich Miethe was the first of five children of the Pfefferküchler Friedrich August Miethe (1753–1827) from Halle (the founder of the Halloren chocolate factory ) and Friederike Henriette Sophie Miethe, née. Dam (1766-1803).

In 1820 Miethe moved to Potsdam and opened a shop on Bassinplatz . He refined the processing of chocolate through a special process with the help of a steam engine. In order to enable production on a larger scale, he acquired the aristocratic palace with the address Am Schloß 1 and converted it into a factory. His new process soon made it possible to produce "about 1000 pounds of chocolate a day in Berlin". His steamed chocolate became a quality product and was sold all over Germany. He was attacked in public by his competitors, who still produced handcrafted chocolate: his steamed chocolate was by no means better, and the special name was therefore more than misleading. Miethe defended himself against these attacks with a detailed description of his production method . Brief description of the old and new chocolate-making methods .

In 1832 Miethe founded a second factory in Nuremberg together with the businessman Heinrich Lorenz Birkner (1792–1864) .

Miethe married Emilie Blumenthal from Berlin in 1821 in Hallesches Dom . The first of his nine children is the future artist Friederike Miethe . His son Albert Miethe is the father of the inventor of color photography Adolf Miethe and the grandfather of the writer Käthe Miethe .

literature

  • Miethe, JF: Brief description of the old and new chocolate-making methods . Leopold Wilhelm Krause, Berlin 1830, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10305253-1 .
  • Dorothea Suffrian: family table of the Miethe family . For Inge Meisner. February 1937. Excerpt from Helmut Seibt: Adolf Miethe (1862–1927): Memoirs (=  Acta historica astronomiae . No. 46 ). Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 2012.
  • Potsdam steam chocolate factory. In: PotsdamWiki. Accessed on January 22, 2020 (here reference to Thomas Büloff Der Alte Markt von Potsdam , Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 1st edition, 2018; ISBN 978-3-945256-85-5 ).
  • Chocolate. In: Potsdam. How it became what it is. terra press, accessed January 22, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JF Miethe in Potsdam indicates that his "steam-chocolate machine" has been completed. In: German Digital Library. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (quoted there from: Vossische Zeitung , 1828, No. 64 of March 15).
  2. ↑ today Humboldstrasse 1, on the corner of Adolf-Miethe-Ufer
  3. ↑ Quotation from his publication Brief description of the old and new chocolate preparation method
  4. ^ Georg Bernardini: The chocolate tester . Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039820-9 .
  5. ↑ Later, founder and owner of the Nuremberg chocolate factory Birkner & Hartmann ( Album amicorum of Gustav Philipp Jacob Birkner. Reiss & Sohn - book and Kunstantiquariat, accessed on 22 January 2020 . )
  6. ↑ Uwe Spiekermann : Means against mass death? On the history of acorn cocoa. March 25, 2019, accessed on January 22, 2020 (here references to: Augsburger Tagblatt , December 7, 1837, no. 366, and Der Friedens und Kriegs Kurier , February 18, 1832, no. 49).
personal data
SURNAME Miethe, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pfefferküchler and chocolate maker
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1832
Place of death Potsdam