Johann Jacobs (entrepreneur)
Johann Jacobs (born May 20, 1869 in Borgfeld ; † February 21, 1958 in Bremen ) was a German entrepreneur and the founder of the Jacobs company, which specializes in the production of coffee and is now part of Jacobs Douwe Egberts .
Life
Johann Jacobs came from a long-established Borgfeld farming family. As the second born he could not inherit his father's farm, he turned to a commercial profession. In 1895 he opened a grocery store , where he acted mainly with coffee and tea, but also with cocoa and chocolate.
Due to his commercial success, Jacobs was able to establish his first coffee roasting company in Bremen in 1907 . He and his nephew Walther J. Jacobs finally managed to develop this company into one of the most famous coffee manufacturers.
The Johann Jacobs Museum is named after him , a collection on the cultural history of coffee that his great-nephew Klaus J. Jacobs founded in Zurich in 1984. It has an extensive collection in the fields of painting, graphics, porcelain and silver. It also maintains one of the world's most important libraries on the cultural history of coffee.
He was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen ( → Lage ).
literature
- Friedrich Prüser : Jacobs, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 244 ( digitized version ). (Year of birth wrongly stated there as 1889)
- Svenja Kunze and Alexander Schug : Jacobs coffee ... wonderful - a coffee story from Bremen. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4015-5 ( online: the first 25 pages as PDF ).
Web links
- Johann Jacobs Museum
- History of the Jacobs company
- Jürgen Werth: May 20th, 1869 - birthday of Johann Jacobs WDR ZeitZeichen on May 20th, 2019 (podcast)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobs, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and the founder of the Jacobs company |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borgfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1958 |
| Place of death | Bremen |