Percy Shelley Anneke

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Percy Shelley Anneke (born August 20, 1850 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA ; † April 26, 1928 in Santa Barbara , California , USA) was an American entrepreneur of German descent ( Annecke family ), son of the German socialist and revolutionary Fritz Anneke and Mathilde Franziska Anneke .

Life

Percy Shelley Anneke was named after the British poet Percy Shelley , who was very revered by early Biedermeier socialists like the Annekes , Lord Byron's friend and husband of the famous Frankenstein author , Mary Shelley . Shelley had become popular in progressive circles across Europe through his radical poems, inspired by the Peterloo massacre in 1819 .

Anneke initially worked in sales and as an auditor for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in Milwaukee. During this activity he traveled through the Midwest and got to know many of the breweries, which are mostly run by German-born Americans.

In 1884, the year of his mother's death, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Percy bought into the Fitger Brewing Company in Duluth (Minnesota) as a partner of the founder August Fitger (who was trained as a master brewer in Weihenstephan (now TU Munich)).

In 1920, with the beginning of Prohibition , the brewery survived because Anneke and his partner Fitger switched to new products in good time. Anneke's son Victor took over the management of Fitger, who had other business interests in California, on April 20, 1920, and later his father Percy, who had a stroke on New Years Eve 1923 and was being cared for by his daughter in Santa Barbara. Fitger had successfully joined Celite Corporation, which is still the world's largest producer of diatomite , which is used, among other things, as filter material in beer production and other chemical and process engineering processes.

For the activities of Victor Anneke at Fitgers see here: Victor Anneke .

Percy died in California in 1928 as a result of the stroke he had suffered five years earlier.

The Beerhalter family took over the brewery completely in 1944 and operated it until it had to close in 1972 due to the overwhelming power of the big beer companies in Milwaukee. At the beginning of the 1980s Fitger's was reopened as an adventure hotel and industrial monument and is reminiscent of a piece of German-American industrial history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fitger's Brewery is now a major industrial monument on the National Register of Historic Places in Duluth , the port city on Lake Superior .

photos

A photo of the young Percy together with his sister Hertha and his father Fritz Anneke from the year of his death in 1871 can be found on p. 135 in the Anneke biography by Klaus Schmidt.

literature

  • Tony Dierckins, Peter Clure, 2018, Naturally Brewed, Naturally Better: The Historic Breweries of Duluth & Superior: ZENITH City Publishers, ISBN 978-1887317498

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Federal Tax Report, vol. 15; Zenith City Press: April 26, 1928 - death of Percy Shelley Anneke
  2. ↑ April 20, 1920: Victor Anneke takes over Fitger's Brewing Company
  3. ^ The year of death 1924 given in the Anneke family chronicle from 1960 is incorrect. (Annecke, Heinrich: The peasant family Annecke in Schadeleben and their lineage: German Family Archives , Volume 13, pp. 116-140, 1960 ISSN  0012-1266 )
  4. ^ Klaus Schmidt: Mathilde Franziska and Fritz Anneke - From the pioneering days of democracy and women's movements. Joachim Schmidt von Schwind Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-932050-14-2
personal data
SURNAME Anneke, Percy Shelley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1928
Place of death Santa Barbara , California , USA