Johann Gottlieb Ebart

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Johann Gottlieb Ebart (born December 5, 1746 in Berlin , † April 19, 1805 in Spechthausen ) was a German paper merchant and paper mill owner.

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Johann Gottlieb Ebart was a son of Johann Paul Ebart (around 1709–1782) and Anna Gertrud (1714-1796 (?)), Widowed Fournier, née Langenbach. One of the family's ancestors was a man named Jacob, who worked as a papermaker in Neustadt in 1654 .

Ebart received a commercial training. His father worked as a papermaker in Pankow and had founded a paper shop in Berlin, in which his son received shares in 1776. In 1782 he took over this business and five years later acquired the Spechthausen paper mill. This company, founded in 1781 and previously insignificant, was initiated by Frederick II to strengthen the economy in the eastern part of the country. The mill, technically managed by the Westphalian papermaker Math. Friedrich Vorster, developed due to Ebart's support until his death into one of the largest and best paper manufacturers, operating 120 hammers, three paper dummies and eight handmade paper .

At the turn of the century, Ebart tried to produce security papers similar to the French Billets de la Caisse des Comptes Courants . The papers he made, the bulk of which contained red characters and letters, were considered better than those made in France. In 1799, Ebart was therefore commissioned to produce appropriate papers for Prussian state vault certificates. The paper mill in Spechthausen thus produced securities for the first time. For his trading business in Berlin he cooperated with Johann Chr. Friedrich Stentz, who worked in the company that was called "Ebart & Stentz" from 1789 to 1812. The paper mill, however, operated under his own name.

Ebart was considered socially minded and had workers' apartments built. In 1789 he founded a school for 28 employees' children, and in 1797 a Viktualienbuchhandlung and a brewery for the employed family members.

Ebart had been married to Friederica Charlotte (1753–1787) since 1776, whose father, named Stein, worked as a mill master in Prenzlau . From the marriage came their son Johann Wilhelm (1781–1822), whose son Karl Emil continued the Ebarts paper business in Berlin and Spechthausen.

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SURNAME Ebart, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper merchant and paper mill owner
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1805
Place of death Woodpecker houses