Joseph Wagner (brewer)

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Logo of the Augustiner brewery

Georg Joseph Wagner (born September 23, 1819 in Munich ; † October 21, 1900 there ) was a German restaurant and brewery owner. His initials JW are still part of the Augustiner brewery's trademark and logo .

Life

Wagner was a son of the brewing couple Anton and Therese Wagner from Attaching near Freising . After attending the Royal Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich , he studied at the Technical University of Munich and the Weihenstephan Brewery Academy . In 1841 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich .

In 1829 the parents had acquired the Augustiner brewery , which since the secularization of 1803 was no longer managed by the Augustinian monks , but initially by the state and later by the private sector. Joseph Wagner's father died in 1844 and Joseph inherited the brewery after the death of his mother Therese in 1858. He expanded the business considerably and expanded it into a large brewery. To expand the production facilities, he acquired the Augustiner cellar on Arnulfstrasse as a storage cellar in 1862 . In the hall and in the garden there was a beer serving, where the Munich people celebrated lavish parties. An Augustiner beer stall at the Oktoberfest has been documented since 1867 at the latest . In 1883, Wagner relocated the brewery to the current site on Landsberger Strasse. At the previous location in Neuhauser Strasse, he had a representative restaurant building built by the architect Emanuel von Seidl in 1896 .

Joseph Wagner and his Augustiner brewery were a founding member of the Bavarian Brewers' Association founded on July 15, 1880 . He died in Munich in October 1900. He was followed by his sons Richard Wagner (member of the management since 1890) and Max Wagner as the director of the brewery company.

trademark

The “JW” trademark was registered for the brewery for the first time in 1887. The initials of Josef Wagner with the abbot's staff (bishop's staff ) have been decorating the barrels, jugs and vehicles of the Augustiner brewery since then.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 170 , 402
  2. ↑ official Augustiner website, history of the brewery
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists from 1960, 104, 412
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, Augustiner in the newspaper
  5. ↑ Christian Schäder: Munich brewing industry from 1871 to 1945. The economic and historical development of a branch of industry . Marburg 1999. Zugl. Diss., University of Regensburg 1998, p. 73.
  6. ↑ official Augustiner website, history of the brewery
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurant and brewery owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1900
Place of death Munich