Josef Keller (pastry chef)

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Josef Keller (born January 26, 1887 in Riedlingen , † June 8, 1981 in Radolfzell ) was a master confectioner who claimed the invention of the Black Forest cake for himself.

Josef Keller was one of ten children of the stocking knitter Anton Keller from Offingen am Bussen and his wife Josefa Steck. After attending elementary school, Josef Keller passed the journeyman's examination in 1904 and went on a journey for seven years. His stations were Schorndorf , Landau in der Pfalz , Tettnang , Biberach an der Riss , Müllheim (Baden) , Forchheim , Stuttgart and Überlingen . After a long stay at Lake Constance , he worked again in Biberach, then in Alsace . In 1915 he married in Überlingen. In the same year served as a cellar Württemberg with Badischer town near Koblenz in a Prussian infantry - battalion and escaped his military service in the room Bonn . After the end of the war, he passed his master craftsman examination in Constance in 1919 and took over his first café in Radolfzell at Teggingerstraße 6, which he ran until 1947. After 1933, Keller was an active party member of the NSDAP and chairman of the Radolfzell local group of the NS organization Kraft durch Freude .

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The "sweet Josef", as he was also called since early youth, had stayed in Bad Godesberg before his military service , which explains the recruitment that took place there . In Bad Godesberg there was the famous “Ahrend” café (today Agner), where he found work and where the students from Bonn asked for cherries with cream as a fashion dessert. Later this one was with kirsch -soaked short crust pastry served and so came by and by the pie pastry that you today, " Black Forest cake called". Although similar cakes have existed before, this is his creation in the combination of cherry, kirsch, cream, chocolate flakes and the corresponding dough bases. He himself said that he baked this cake under this name as early as 1927.

literature

  • Achim Fenner: The "sweet Josef". Confectioner Josef Keller and the Black Forest cake . In: Hegau. 63rd year 2006, pp. 113-120.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Judgment Chamber File Josef Keller, Freiburg State Archives, D 180/2 No. 154984.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES sweet Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German confectioner, inventor of the Black Forest cake
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedlingen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1981
Place of death Radolfzell