Johannes Jost

Johannes Jost, portrait medallion on the tombstone

Master's certificate, issued in 1875 by the brewing academy of Heinrich Konrad Schneider in Worms

Johannes Jost, tombstone, Grünstadt cemetery

Johannes Jost , often also Jean Jost (born April 29, 1850 in Grünstadt , † December 25, 1916 in Gießen ) was a German brewer and entrepreneur.

Life

Jost is a son of the brewery owner Johannes Jost II (1819–1862) and his wife Dorothea, born in Bad Kreuznach , born. Seitz. When he was 12 years old, his father passed away. At the age of 16 Johannes Jost left home and worked in various breweries, where he learned his father's trade. He obtained his master brewer diploma on September 1, 1875 at the "Academy for Brewers and Farmers" operated by Heinrich Conrad Schneider in Worms . Schneider was a student of Justus von Liebig and Lorenz Adalbert Enzinger , inventor of the beer filter named after him, taught at his school .

Jost returned to Grünstadt. In the meantime, his mother had died and the stepfather had sold his father's brewery in Ringgasse. Together with his brother, the merchant Wilhelm Jost (1854–1882), who died early, Johannes Jost acquired the small Kuhn brewery in Jakobstrasse 17–19 in 1879 and founded the rapidly expanding brewery Gebr. Jost (called Jost-Bräu ) in 1880 was to be one of the most important and largest companies in Grünstadt until it closed in 1970.

Jost became one of the richest and most respected citizens of the city. In 1879 he married Adolphine Maria Bepler from Gießen. From 1884 until his death he was a national liberal member of the Grünstadt city council , since 1911 he acted as 1st adjunct (mayor's representative). Jost had rejected an election as mayor in 1902 with reference to his position as head of the brewery, which he could then no longer fully fulfill. From 1895 he was also a member of the supervisory board of the local Volksbank , from 1910 as its chairman. He was also presbyter of the Protestant parish and a member of the Protestant workers' association. The Martin Church, Green City has two valuable silver in their fundus Supper cans , which he founded. A stained glass window he financed for this church was destroyed in World War II.

The entrepreneur died in Gießen in 1916. He was given a monumental tomb with a portrait medallion in the center of the Grünstadt cemetery. The middle section with the mourning figure and the signed medallion are works by the Mannheim sculptor Friedrich Kurz , who also created the Regino monument in Altrip .

gallery

Grave complex
Jost Brewery around 1920
Jost-Bräu emblem, beer glass around 1900
Jost-Bräu advertising sign, around 1910
Jost-Bräu wooden barrel, City Museum Grünstadt
Historic enamel sign of the Jost-Bräu
Tavern sign Göllheimer Häuschen

literature

Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt , Emil Sommer Verlag, Grünstadt, 1975, p. 378 and 379
Joachim Specht, Otmar Jotter: History of the Grünstadt breweries from their beginnings to the present , Altertumsverein Grünstadt, No. 8, 2000, pp. 27–32
Journal of the Association of German Chemists , 1917, Part A, p. 34; (Detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Franz: The agriculture in Thuringia and its developments over the last fifty years , 1896, p. 142; (Digital scan of Heinrich Conrad Schneider and his school)

personal data
SURNAME	Jost, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jost, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German brewer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1916
Place of death	to water

[1] Hermann Franz: The agriculture in Thuringia and its developments over the last fifty years , 1896, p. 142; (Digital scan of Heinrich Conrad Schneider and his school)