Johann Georg Gademann

Johann Georg Gademann (born March 14, 1754 in Schweinfurt ; † February 25, 1813 there ) was a German paint manufacturer.

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Johann Georg Gademann was a son of Johann Adam Gademann (1699–1763) and Margarete Dor. Michal (1725-1799). He grew up in a family of 15 siblings. His father was a master boatman and fisherman who came from a Schweinfurt family of fishermen and boatmen. Gadermann himself married Marg. Barbara (1757–1833) in Schweinfurt in 1780. Her father Christoph Fichtbauer worked as a merchant, councilor and city customs officer in Mainbernheim .

Gademann received training in the commercial trade from 1771 to 1775. In 1777/78 he lived in Eisenach and in 1780 went back to Schweinfurt, where he opened the Gademann & Co. company with his brother-in-law Johann Friedrich Wolf (1756-1825) . After a few years he continued to run the trading business alone. In an area in which the Wern Schweinfurt flows through, he acquired a mill in which he produced Schusser and rapeseed oil. In 1792 he also acquired a mill in Niederwerrn and founded a lead factory there with two people from Schweinfurt. From 1803 he continued the business as the sole owner.

Gademann then also produced mineral paints in his factory in Niederwerrn. Business friend Georg Ernst Wüstenfeld from Minden advised him to employ Wilhelm Sattler in 1804 , who later produced Schweinfurter Grün in a factory he founded himself . After Gademann died, the owners of the company he founded acquired the oldest German lead factory that Johann Martin Schmitt had built in Schweinfurt. This company flourished under Gademann's successors, including Carl Friedrich Gademann .

Gademann had two sons and three daughters. The great-grandson Ferdinand (* 1880) was a councilor, honorary citizen of the city of Schweinfurt and owner of the Gademann company.

literature

• Anton Oeller:  Gademann, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 12 f. ( Digitized version ).