Messmer (company)
Messmer , a formerly independent tea trading company, is now a brand of the East Frisian Tea Society Laurens Spethmann .
history
The company has its origins in a delicatessen and grocery store, which was founded on September 21, 1852 by Eduard Meßmer (1824–1910) in Baden-Baden . Messmer became purveyor to the court of Wilhelm von Prussia and his wife Augusta , who were guests in the hotel of his father Johann Friedrich Baptist Messmer, the Hotel Messmer, for many years. In 1886, Messmer was able to open a branch in Frankfurt am Main , which was managed by his son Otto Meßmer (1858–1940). Otto Meßmer registered the Meßmer Tea brand in 1895 .
In 1990 the company Ed. Messmer GmbH & Co., Frankfurt am Main and Grettstadt , taken over by the East Frisian tea company Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG from Seevetal . Today's range of the Messmer brand includes 46 types of tea or tea blends, which are sold both loose and in the double-chamber tea bags developed by engineer Adolf Rambold ( teapot ) in 1949 .
literature
- Stefanie Maeck: Messmer. The magic of a global brand. Wachholtz Verlag, Hamburg and Neumünster 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-07503-2 .
Web links
- Official website of Messmer
- Biography of Eduard Meßmer on bad-bad.de