Joseph Emil Hachez

Joseph Emil (Emile) Hachez (born November 26, 1862 in Bremen , † December 24, 1933 in Bremen) was a co-founder and partner of the Hachez chocolate factory .

biography

family

Hachez came from the Bremen merchant family Hachez. His great-grandfather was the merchant Joseph Johan (n) Hachez (1758–1831). He moved from Bruges to Bremen as an emigrant in 1771 and initially lived here according to the hospitality law. With his father-in-law Consul Erttel he founded the iron trading company Erttel & Hachez in Bremen Am Brill 6. His grandfather was Johann Ferdinand Dominikus Hachez. His great-uncle was Joseph Johannes Arnold Hachez (1828–1901), who was an authorized signatory and partner in the DH Wätjen shipping company . His father was Emil Hermann Hachez (1820–1875), a businessman and co-owner of the Hachez and Müller cigar factory .

Education and Entrepreneur

Hachez lived in Antwerp for several years and learned the craft of chocolatier . In 1889 he returned to Bremen and on July 1, 1890, together with Gustav Linde, founded the Bremer Chocolade-Fabrik Hachez & Co. His great-uncle Joseph Johannes Arnold Hachez, partner in the trading company DH Wätjen and Co. , is said to have helped finance the company .

The company produced and sold chocolate, cocoa, sweets and sugar confectionery in the Hutfilterstrasse , right in the old town of Bremen . Since the products of Hachez & Co . soon enjoyed great popularity, in 1895 the company moved to a new and significantly larger factory in Westerstraße in Bremen Neustadt , where the company is still located today.

In 1897, Hachez and Elisabeth Russell married. Both lived on the Contrescarpe and then in a house next to the new plant and from 1911 in the so-called Russel House on Uhlandstrasse.

Hachez was also a member of the board of directors of the St. Joseph Stift Hospital , where he succeeded his father. Hachez left the company in 1920.

His grave is in the Riensberg cemetery .

Honors

• The Joseph-Hachez street in Bremen- Obervieland was named after him.

successor

His wife initially remained a limited partner in the company. The general partners of the Hachez company were Georg Wilhelm Hans Linde and Friedrich Otto Hasse .

Web links

• On the history of the Hachez family by Hermann Sandkühler

literature

• Konrad Elmshäuser , Hermann Sandkühler: Hachez in Bremen, ships and chocolate . In: Historische Gesellschaft Bremen (ed.): Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 79, Bremen 2000, ISSN  0341-9622 , pp. 213-232.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .