Johann Joseph Caspar Berg

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Caspar Berg (born May 15, 1829 in Nuremberg ; † June 6, 1892 there ) was a German metal entrepreneur.

Live and act

Berg was the son of Joseph Sebastian Berg and Kunigunde Berg geb. Bodies who married on October 25, 1835. Caspar Berg spent his youth in Wöhrder Schulgasse, together with his four siblings, who were born between 1844 and 1850. He still lived there in 1859. Berg was the uncle of the composer Alban Berg .

He spent his apprenticeship between 1854 and 1856 at the machine works Henschel & Sohn in Kassel, before he worked for the Nuremberg machine construction company, iron foundry Klett & Comp. (later merged with MAN ) found a permanent job. After his marriage to Johanna Barbara Fischer on May 22, 1859, he moved to St. Peter 59, today's Regensburger Straße 48. Berg had a representative villa built there in the historicism style. On December 28, 1860, the Bavarian Ministry of Commerce granted him the license to manufacture "cast goods made of iron, composition and other metal". The company premises of his iron foundry were built at Regensburger Strasse 48 between Kirchenstrasse and Regensburger Strasse.

Berg was a member of the Association of the South German Iron and Steel Industry. Politically, he was involved in the Liberal Party , as a member of which he was represented for the Liberals from April 18, 1890 until his death in the municipal council of municipal representatives, which roughly corresponds to today's honorary city council ( municipal suffrage in the Free State of Bavaria ).

He died on June 6, 1892 in his hometown and left no children.

The enterprise

Initially, in January 1860, the Nuremberg magistrate rejected his request to establish an iron foundry in the city. Reasons were probably his lack of wealth as well as the bad repute of his wife, who had been employed by the flower maker Metzger for over 10 years. In 1860 he submitted a new application through the mediation of the district government of Middle Franconia . He switched on the royal Bavarian State Ministry of Trade and Public Works in Munich. He justified the request as follows: "It is about the molding, casting and firing of all kinds of already modeled hardware". He obtained these goods from Berlin and Offenbach through the local merchant Thiess. He does not use other metals. The decisive factor for his request is the fact that “this line of business does not yet exist in this city”. The objection that Nürnberger Gürtler (metal formers) were already doing this work was rejected as unfounded, as they did not have the necessary equipment. He also presented a certificate from the businessman Thiess and from the factory owner, Mr. von Cramer-Klett. He would not affect anyone with this new line of business, but “increase and promote the local industry”.

In December 1860, the city council of Nuremberg approved his application. On March 20, 1861, the entry was made in the commercial register of the city of Nuremberg. As early as April 1861, Berg applied for the concession for a factory site with a steam boiler on St. Peter No. 59, today's Regensburger Strasse. The company premises were in the corner between Kirchenstrasse and Regensburger Strasse near the later St.Peter's Church. In 1900, eight years after the death of the company founder, this factory location was given up. What remained was a warehouse for automobiles and accessories, which Caspar Berg jun., A nephew of the manufacturer registered in 1914, as well as the Villa Berg, Regensburger Strasse 48, which survived the bombing of Nuremberg in World War II unscathed.

After his death in 1892, his brother Veit Berg, born in 1848, who had joined the company as a partner four years earlier, took over the management of the company.In 1900, Veit Berg relocated production to a new location, today's Laufamholzstrasse 70 in Nuremberg- Mögeldorf . That is where the Berg company resided until the very end. Even when the company founder Kaspar Berg was still alive, the old location on Regensburger Strasse was having increasing problems with the residents who felt disturbed by the noise of the machines.

During the lifetime of the company pioneer Kaspar Berg, the family business rose from a production facility of only modest local importance to a medium-sized company, which now also turned to iron construction, bridge construction and machine manufacture.

Literature and Sources

  • Willi Veit Berg: Family Chronicle , 1939.
  • 100 years 1860–1960 Kaspar Berg Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1960.
  • Nuremberg City Archives:
    • Request from the iron caster Joh. Jos. Caspar Berg for the license to manufacture cast goods from iron 1859–1861: StadtAN C 7 / I No. 13516
    • Settlement Act 1859–1865: StadtAN C 7 / II No. 15768
    • StadtAN E 9/534 company Kaspar Berg
    • StadtAN 1/87 Nr. 2 (Genealogical news and family tables)
    • StadtAN commercial register 1861
    • StadtAN Nuremberg address book 1863

Web links

Commons : Manhole cover by Kaspar Berg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christof Neidiger: Cross Brave, blonde-haired fathers, Nuremberg family of the composer Alban Berg . In: Norica . No. 2 , 2006, p. 29 f .
  2. ↑ Christof Neidiger: Berg family . S. 31 .
  3. ↑ Request from the iron caster Caspar Berg 1859-1861, StadtAN C 7 / I No. 13516.
  4. ↑ Neidiger, Berg family, p.31ff.
  5. ↑ Neidiger, Berg family, p.32.
  6. ↑ 100 years 1860-1960 Kaspar Berg Nürnberg, pp. 1f.
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Johann Joseph Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metal entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1892
Place of death Nuremberg