Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu

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Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu (* 1752 ; † August 26, 1820 in Braunschweig ) was a German merchant and entrepreneur and founder of the chicory factory Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu .

life and work

The chicory factory Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu , lithograph from the 19th century.
Steinweg 4 : From 1748 to 1786 the town commandant's house. Subsequently, residential and commercial building Ludwig Otto Bleibtreus. After his death in 1820 inhabited by his successor Carl Friedrich Franquet and until 1931 by art collector Arthur von Franquet .
Grave of Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu in the Andreasfriedhof in March 2015.

Bleibtreu was initially the chamberlakai of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . When he was honorably discharged in 1781, he received a ducal privilege to produce chicory coffee . With his savings, Bleibtreu founded his first production facility on September 7, 1781 in the densely built-up city ​​center of Braunschweig . In 1793, following local complaints, he moved the business to what was then the city limits, to today's Mühlenpfordtstraße in front of the Wendentor .

Bleibtreu managed to successfully assert itself around 1800 against the roughly two dozen competing companies in Braunschweig itself, but also in other German cities. At the beginning of the 19th century Braunschweig was one of the most important centers of the emerging German chicory coffee industry and Bleibtreus factory was one of the largest and most successful among them. The company flourished and was one of the few chicory factories in Braunschweig to survive the continental barrier imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte between 1806 and 1814 . This economic war had, among other things, negative effects on the French Kingdom of Westphalia , to which Braunschweig belonged as the capital of the Oker department .

Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu married Eleonore Friederike, b. Lohse (1753-1824). The marriage remained childless. In the middle of the 1780s Bleibtreu learned to ride from the Saxon-Meining stable master Franquet. This developed into such a close friendship that Bleibtreu adopted his four-year-old son Carl Friedrich Franquet as a foster child in 1787 , when his father was appointed stable master at the University of Helmstedt . At the turn of the 19th century, Bleibtreu was one of the wealthiest citizens of Braunschweig and paid correspondingly high taxes. For 17,000 gold thalers he acquired the representative building Steinweg 4 ( insurance company number 1956) including the furniture and art objects it contained. It was a four-storey building that served as the city headquarters from 1748 to 1786 and was rebuilt in 1784 for Court Marshal CCG von Staffenhorst in the style of early classicism . Bleibtreu used the building as a residential and commercial building until his death in 1820.

When Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu died in 1820, Carl Friedrich Franquet inherited both Steinweg 4 and the chicory factory, which he successfully continued until his death in 1851. Franquet put a small memorial to his foster father in the garden that was adjacent to the factory building, but it no longer exists. The company remained family-owned until 1909 and continued under the same name until the late 1930s.

Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu's grave is still in the Andreasfriedhof in Braunschweig today . In the Nordstadt district of Braunschweig , a street is named after Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu.

literature

  • Peter Albrecht: Braunschweig and the coffee. The history of the roasted coffee market from its beginnings to our days. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke, series A, volume 60, 119 of the whole series), publication from the city archive and the city library, Wallstein, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3350-5 .
  • FJ Christiani: Karl Friedrich Franquet. Farm manufacturer in Braunschweig (1783–1851). In: Miscell. 34, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig , 1982, ISSN  0934-6201 .
  • Ludwig Hänselmann : From 1781 until this day !. News of the founding and one hundred years of the chicory factory of Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu in Braunschweig. Krampe, Braunschweig 1881, OCLC 248120971 .
  • Jörg Leuschner , Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Claudia Märtl (eds.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweig country from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 .
  • Wilhelm Schrader: Brunswick family chronicle. The Bleibtreu and Franquet families. In: Braunschweigische Landeszeitung . No. 117 of April 29, 1934.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c F. J. Christiani: Karl Friedrich Franquet. Farm manufacturer in Braunschweig (1783–1851). P. 2.
  2. ↑ Peter Albrecht: The food and luxury foods. In: Leuschner et al. (Ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweig country from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. P. 545.
  3. ^ Karl Liedke, Bernd Rother : From the sugar factory to the microchip: Braunschweig's industry from 1850 to today. Dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7638-0309-2 , p. 10.
  4. ^ Carl Philipp Ribbentrop : Complete history and description of the city of Braunschweig. Second volume, Braunschweig 1791, p. 146 ff.
  5. ^ Hans-Walter Schmuhl : The gentlemen of the city. Bourgeois elites and municipal self-government in Nuremberg and Braunschweig from the 18th century to 1918. Focus Verlag, Gießen 1998, ISBN 3-88349-468-2 , p. 9.
  6. ^ Jean Paul's complete works. Historical-critical edition. IV. Department. Volume 6: Letters to Jean Paul 1809–1814. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005588-6 , p. 462.
  7. ^ Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung . Supplement to No. 253, Saturday, September 9, 1820.
  8. ^ FJ Christiani: Karl Friedrich Franquet. Farm manufacturer in Braunschweig (1783–1851). P. 1.
  9. ↑ Paul Jonas Meier , Karl Steinacker : The architectural and art monuments of the city of Braunschweig. 2nd expanded edition, Braunschweig 1926, p. 72.
  10. ^ Wilhelm Schrader: Beginning and end of a patrician house, an industrial company and a family in Braunschweig. In: Braunschweiger Calendar . 1958, p. 39 f.
  11. ↑ Friedrich Knoll : Braunschweig and surroundings: historical-topographical manual and guide through the monuments and art treasures of the city. Braunschweig 1881, p. 196.
  12. ^ FJ Christiani: Karl Friedrich Franquet. Farm manufacturer in Braunschweig (1783–1851). P. 4.
  13. ↑ Werner Flechsig : Table pleasures in Braunschweig during the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Braunschweigische Heimat . 55th year, issue 1, Braunschweig 1969, p. 35.
  14. ↑ The Bleibtreuweg on the website of the city of Braunschweig, accessed on January 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bleibtreu, Ludwig Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stay true, Ludewig Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur in Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH 1752
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1820
Place of death Braunschweig