Karl Ernst Wedel
Karl Ernst Heinrich Wedel (born February 7, 1813 in Ihlenfeld , † June 17, 1902 in Warsaw ) was a German confectioner who brought the chocolate cake to Poland . The company C. E. Wedel , which emerged from his business, still produces in Poland today.
Life
Karl Ernst Wedel was born as the son of the (landlord) writer Joachim Friedrich Wedel and his wife Christine, nee. Krüger, born in Ihlenfeld (today part of Neuenkirchen near Neubrandenburg ). Wedel had completed an apprenticeship as a pastry chef around 1830 and had come to Berlin (perhaps in the course of the journeyman's journey, which was obligatory at the time), where his first marriage to Dorothea Friederike, b. Schirmer (* 1809) married, the daughter of an arable citizen from Lindow. In 1840 he married Karoline Auguste, née Wisnowska, for the second time. The marriage had a son, Emil. The confectioner, who immigrated from Germany in 1845, opened a pastry shop on Honigstrasse (Polish: ulica Miodowa) in 1851, which was the first in Warsaw at the time.
The German confectioner Karl Ernst Wedel had opened a chocolate and confectionery factory in 1851, which his son Emil (1841-1919) made the largest company in this branch and which remained in family hands until 1948. The “ E. Wedel ” brand can still be seen today on the sweets that are manufactured in the company that was privatized in the 1990s and currently owned by the Japanese Lotte Group .
Karl Ernst Wedel died in Warsaw at the age of 89.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martha Müller: Mecklenburg in Eastern Europe. A contribution to their emigration in the 16th to 19th centuries. JG Herder Institute, Marburg (Lahn) 1972 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Everything about Warsaw (Polish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedel, Karl Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedel, Karl Ernst Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German confectioner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ihlenfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1902 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |