Michael Weber (brewer)
Michael Weber (* 1827 in Heidingsfeld ; † 1885 ) was a German - Swiss master brewer . From 1856 until his death he was the managing director of the Wädenswil brewery .
Life
Michael Weber was born in Heidingsfeld near Würzburg in 1827 as the son of a Würzburg master brewer. The family moved to Schaffhausen when Michael was two years old. The father took over the “Straussfeder Brewery” there. Michael Weber went to school in Schaffhausen and later learned the brewing trade in his father's shop. After completing his apprenticeship as a brewer, he learned to be a cooper from a master cooper .
After completing his training, Michael Weber moved to France for a few years, where he worked as a brewer and as a cooper. At the beginning of the 1850s he came back to Switzerland and took a position as master brewer in Heinrich Koller-Forster's brewery (later the «Seiler Brewery») in Oberstrass .
In 1856 he founded the company “Naef & Weber” with his brother-in-law Gottlieb Naef and they took over the “Brauerei Wädenswil”. From 1867 he ran the brewery alone, as he and his brother-in-law broke up their business relationship. After the brewery burned down on April 13, 1874, he had to rebuild it by 1877. He even expanded the facility considerably and ran the business successfully until his death in 1885. He left behind two underage sons.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Fritz Schoellhorn , The brewing trade and the breweries of the Canton of Zurich . Buchdruckerei Winterthur vorm. G. Binkert, Winterthur, 1922
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss master brewer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidingsfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1885 |