Paul Beisbarth

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Paul Beisbarth (born October 22, 1858 ; † after 1935) was a German entrepreneur . As a piano manufacturer in Stuttgart , he had developed his company into the largest piano factory in southern Germany before the First World War. At the same time he was also consul for Portugal .

Life

He was the son of Edward Beisbarth that (1851-1883), founded by his father Richard Lipp (1805-1874) in November 1831 in Stuttgart company by his son Robert Lipp Richard Lipp took over, focusing on the production of pianos and Pianofortes and was renamed Richard Lipp & Sohn by him .

After attending secondary school, Paul Beisbarth embarked on a commercial and technical education. He then stayed for a long time in the USA and England. When his father Eduard Beisbarth died on May 11, 1893, he took over his father's piano factory. In 1911 Paul Beisbarth had a new factory building for the piano factory built in Stuttgart-Feuerbach on the corner of Werner- and Breite Strasse.

At times, Paul Beisbarth also worked as consul for the Kingdom of Portugal . When he died, his son of the same name, Paul Beisbarth jun. (1886–1958) continued the company. The Richard Lipp & Sohn company , which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1931, existed until 1982 and then became the Ahlborn-Orael GmbH company.

Paul Beisbarth was a member of the Verband Deutscher Pianofortefabrikanten e. V. and opened the general assembly of this association in Weimar on June 19, 1929 with a welcoming address.

literature

  • Address book of directors and supervisory boards , 1922, p. 79.
  • Paul Beisbarth 70 years . In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, Volume 49, 1928, p. 108.
  • Herrmann AL Degener: Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Henkel, Deutsches Museum: Stringed keyboard instruments. German museum. Catalogs of the collections. Musical instrument collection , Erwin Bochinsky publishing house, 1994, page 256.
  2. ↑ Christian Väterlein, Anja Stangl, Old Castle: musical instrument collection in Fruchtkasten. Companion book , 1993.
  3. ↑ Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Volume 49, 1928, page 836.
personal data
SURNAME Beisbarth, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and consul
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1858
DATE OF DEATH after 1935