Moritz Fiege private brewery
Moritz Fiege GmbH & Co. KG private brewery
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legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
founding | 1878 |
Seat | Bochum , Germany |
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Number of employees | 58 |
Branch | Breweries |
Website | www.moritzfiege.de |
The Moritz Fiege GmbH & Co. KG private brewery is a family brewery founded in Bochum in 1878 .
history
The origins of the history of the Moritz Fiege private brewery go back to the year 1736. At that time, the innkeeper Moritz Fiege ran a liquor and brandy distillery on Beckstrasse in Bochum. In 1876 Moritz Fiege received the brewing rights from the city of Bochum. He handed this over to his son Johann, who started brewing in 1878 at the current location on Moritz-Fiege-Straße (formerly: Scharnhorststraße) in Bochum, thus laying the foundation for today's company.
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 also meant a setback for the brewery in terms of business. After returning from the war, Moritz Fiege, the second generation owner, set about building the old brewery. In 1926 Moritz Fiege, with the help of his master brewer, brewed a beer specialty that was completely new for the conditions in the Ruhr area at the time: the Moritz Fiege Pils. The constantly growing family business achieved its breakthrough with beer according to the Pilsener brewing style .
Ernst Fiege joined the company in 1947 and established the brewery as a major market company after he and his father Moritz Fiege had rebuilt it after the Second World War.
In 1978 the private brewery celebrated its 100th anniversary. On this occasion, the Fiege family donated the "Ecumenical Center for the Elderly Kaiseraue" in Bochum. For the 125th anniversary on February 19, 2003, the family called the "Villa Marckhoff Initiative" into being, which enabled the renovation of the architecturally valuable old building of the Bochum Art Museum .
Jürgen and Hugo Fiege have been running the family business in the fifth generation since 1981. Since 2003 the private brewery has been bottling its beer almost exclusively in swing top bottles.
In 2006, the Moritz Fiege brewery joined the Die Freie Brauer initiative , in which 40 medium-sized, owner-managed breweries from Germany, Austria and Luxembourg are dedicated to cultivating the art of brewing. The private brewery has been committed to complying with the quality standards of the Slow Brewing seal of approval since 2013 .
In 2015 the company received the "Meister.Werk.NRW" award for its training and qualification achievements. In 2019, Carla and Hubertus Fiege, the sixth generation of the Fiege family, joined the company.
sorts
The brewery offers the following types (as of January 2020): Pils , Export , Zwickelbier , Helles , Leichtbier , Radler , Schwarzbier and Bierbrand .
Beer driver hat
Since 2003, the brewery has awarded the “Bierkutschermütze” to personalities in the Ruhr area who are “particularly committed to the common good and solidarity in the region”.
The bearers of the beer driver's hat:
- 2003: Ernst-Otto Stüber , Lord Mayor of Bochum
- 2004: Wolfgang Clement , former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs . D.
- 2005: Frank Goosen , cabaret artist and author
- 2006: Norbert Lammert , President of the Bundestag
- 2007: Werner Altegoer , former chairman of the supervisory board of VfL Bochum
- 2008: Manfred Breuckmann , WDR - radio presenter and sports journalist
- 2009: Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé , JD Neuhaus GmbH, managing director of the oldest mechanical engineering company in Germany from Witten that was still in the hands of the founder
- 2010: Elmar Weiler , Rector of the Ruhr University Bochum
- 2011: Dieter Gorny , German media manager and musician
- 2012: Norman Faber , owner of the Faber Lotto-Service group , and Steven Sloane , general music director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra
- 2013: Annegret Schaber, road construction engineer
- 2014: Sibylle Broll-Pape , until 2015 artistic director and artistic director of the Prinzregenttheater
- 2015: Hanns Hatt , fragrance researcher from the Ruhr University Bochum , holder of the chair for cell physiology and author
- 2016: Lars von der Gönna, journalist
- 2017: Christian Eggert, cultural organizer
- 2018: Christian Großmann, entrepreneur, founder of the start-up ingpuls (development and manufacture of shape memory alloys )
- 2019: Manfred Baasner, 1st chairman and founder of the associations "Wattenscheider Tafel ", "Bochumer Tafel " and "Bochumer Kinder- Tafel "
- 2020: Franz Xaver Ohnesorg , director of the Ruhr Piano Festival
See also
Web links
- moritzfiege.de , website of the company
- Description of this sight on the route of industrial culture
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '52.4 " N , 7 ° 13' 41" E