Lorenz Adlon

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Lorenz Adlon (born May 29, 1849 in Mainz , † April 7, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German restaurateur and hotelier .

Life

The Hotel Adlon 1926

Lorenz Adlon was born as Laurenz, the sixth of nine children, in Mainz. His parents were the shoemaker Jacob Adlon and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth, a midwife. After his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Mainz art joinery Bembé , Lorenz Adlon first ran the Raimundigarten excursion restaurant in the Mainz garden field on the banks of the Rhine . He was commercially successful when he took over the catering at the Schützenfest in Düsseldorf , at the German Gymnastics Festival in 1880 in Frankfurt am Main , at the Bavarian Trade Exhibition in Nuremberg in 1882 and especially at the World Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883 .

In the 1880s, Adlon went to Berlin , where he gradually acquired several restorations. Under his leadership, the Hiller restaurant , Unter den Linden 62/63, became the most elegant restaurant in Berlin. He gained a foothold in the Berlin hotel industry by leasing the Hotel Continental in Neustadtische Kirchstrasse. Later he took over the zoo terraces and in 1896, on the occasion of the Berlin trade fair, he ran the "main restaurant of Adlon and Dressel" on the Neuer See in the zoo with Rudolf Dressel . He also ran a wine wholesale business on Wilhelmstrasse .

Shortly after the turn of the century, he built the luxury hotel Adlon in Berlin , for which he had the Palais Redern , the facade of which Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed, demolished. With Kaiser Wilhelm II , who visited the house on October 24, 1907, two days before the official opening, and found more luxury than in his residence, he now had a well-to-do regular customer. The Adlon became the center of social life in Berlin. When the European aristocracy arrived for the wedding celebrations of Princess Viktoria Luises and the later Duke of Brunswick Ernst August in May 1913, the guests, including the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the British King George V , resided in the Hotel Adlon.

Adlon's grave in May 2016

On November 9, 1918, Lorenz Adlon was hit by a truck with rebelling soldiers at the Brandenburg Gate on the middle passage reserved for the emperor. In 1921 he was run over again at the same place, and a few days later he died of the consequences of the accident at the age of 71. He was buried in the old cathedral cemetery of St. Hedwig's parish in Berlin on Liesenstrasse . The grave site with a marble relief by Walter Schott can be found under the cemetery label WG Feld Mauer 2, G4. His son Louis , actually Ludwig Anton, continued to run the hotel. Lorenz Adlon's great-grandson Percy Adlon shot the documentary In the glamorous world of Hotel Adlon about the history of the hotel .

Lorenz Adlon was a member of the Masonic Lodge Zur Eintracht in Berlin.

Others

Lorenz Adlon Dining Room is the name of the gourmet restaurant in today's Hotel Adlon (head chef Hendrik Otto ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Lorenz Adlon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz Adlon. (No longer available online.) Adlon Holding, archived from the original on August 19, 2017 ; Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Alfred Etzold, Wolfgang Türk: The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof: the burial places at the Berliner . Ch. Links Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-86153-261-3 .
  3. ↑ Logen-Festschrift 250 years "Zur Eintracht" . (PDF; 1.7 MB), p. 6, accessed on October 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Lorenz Adlon dining room. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Adlon, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurateur and hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1921
Place of death Berlin