Peter Josef Früh

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Peter Josef Früh (born January 27, 1862 in Brühl , † October 22, 1915 in Cologne ) was a German master brewer and the founder of the Kölner brand beer Früh Kölsch .

Life

Früh came from a brewing family in Brühl and - after a delayed serving license - founded the Aposteln-Bräu brewery in Cologne's Apostelnstrasse in 1895, which he sold to Heinrich Bädorf in 1898 as a successful business. In 1904, Früh founded a new brewery under the name of Cölner Hofbräu P. Josef Früh , where Hofbräu refers to the location of the brewery on Am Hof.

The trained master brewer married Maria Gertrud Koenen (1861–1930), also from Pingsdorf bei Brühl, on May 26, 1888 ; the daughters Netty (1890–1945) and Christel (1892–1942) emerged from the marriage. When the company founder Früh died in 1915 at the age of 53, his widow took over the management until her death in 1930, supported by the daughters who had married two brothers from the Immendorf brewery family.

Gravestone of the Früh family, Melaten cemetery

The daughters ran the brewery until after the Second World War , after which it was sold to a buyer who did not belong to the Früh family. The family is buried in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (hall 72).

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Josef Früh . In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 170.
  2. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , pp. 98ff.