Johann Joachim Darboven

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Johann Joachim Darboven (born April 7, 1841 in Lauenbruch ; † February 18, 1909 in Hamburg) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the J. J. Darboven coffee roasting company .

Life

JJ Darboven was the youngest of four sons and a daughter of the farmer and milk merchant Johann Heinrich Darboven (1806–1876) and his wife Magdalene Dorothee, nee. Gerkens (1802-1861). He worked on his father's farm and brought the products of the farm and the dairy to Hamburg. When he came into contact with the port, he quickly realized that he would only get ahead as a merchant. After a four-year commercial apprenticeship in Altona , he started his own business in Hamburg at the age of 25 and founded the JJ Darboven coffee roasting company on March 21, 1866. His shop was in Hamburg, end of fire 14. Johann Joachim Darboven was the first to sell roasted coffee and also sent it domestically; he called his first brand Gourvita. As early as 1869, he received the silver medal for his 144 different types of coffee at the international horticultural exhibition.

On June 18, 1870, JJ Darboven married Marie Andrine Ludolphi from Hamburg (born April 2, 1848 in Hamburg; † February 11, 1915 in Hamburg).

At the height of his life and business successes, JJ Darboven wrote the last sentences of his memoirs:

“I owe the great boom that my business has had since 1890 to my two dear sons. May God also bless what we do and what we do! Nienstedten, April 1908, JJ Darboven. "

- Hans Braun : Dar bowen: from the experience of a Lower Saxon clan .

He died on February 18, 1909. He left the business to his two sons Arthur and Caesar Darboven. The company is still family-owned today and is managed by Albert Darboven .

The company achieved worldwide fame in 1927 with the introduction of the first stomach-friendly, non-decaffeinated coffee, the IDEE coffee , which is produced using a special roasting process.

His grave and that of his sons are in the Nienstedten cemetery .

literature

  • Hans Braun: Dar bowen: from the experience of a Lower Saxon clan . Oldenburg ok [u. a.]: Stalling, 1934.

Web links

  • Detailed biography in: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie: Personenlexikon (= Franklin Kopitzsch [Hrsg.]: Hamburgische Biographie-Personenlexikon . Volume 3 ). Wallstein-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 87 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpts from the catalog
  2. ↑ Hans Braun: Dar bowen: from the experience of a Lower Saxon clan. Oldenburg ok [u. a.]: Stalling, 1934, p. 51
personal data
SURNAME Darboven, Johann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Tepid
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1909
Place of death Hamburg