Wilhelm Engelhardt (brewer)

Engelhardt beer (2013)

Wilhelm Engelhardt (born July 14, 1834 in Kassel , † January 27, 1895 in Hersfeld, today Bad Hersfeld ) was a German brewer , entrepreneur and Hessian local politician .

Life

From around 1850 Wilhelm Engelhardt learned the brewing trade in Kassel. Then began his compulsory years of travel , which he also spent abroad. In the summer of 1860 he moved to the Hessian county seat Hersfeld , where he found a job at the brewery by Georg Hermann Sauer on Linggplatz. From January 1, 1861 , Engelhardt leased the Sauersche Brewery and the associated rock cellar "Gickelsburg", which at that time was still outside the city. On January 8, 1861, he received the necessary concession from the city council . Engelhardt later bought the brewery facilities and the land; he led after his company under the company Brauerei W. Engelhardt .

On September 21, 1867, Engelhardt married the tenant daughter Karoline Amalie Auguste Noll, 14 years his junior, from the nearby Bingartes estate , with whom he was to have five children. In the same year the brewery location was relocated; the brewery was now in the southwest of the old town of Hersfeld on Webergasse, where a larger brewery building with vaulted cellars was built. From 1869 Engelhardt worked in various committees in the city of Hersfeld. In the following decade, new buildings and extensions were built, which gave his brewery an economic boom. In 1874 a new ice house was built, which was later used as a fermentation and storage cellar for top-fermented beer . Between 1883 and 1895, Engelhardt expanded the brewery by purchasing additional land to create a building ensemble at the intersections of Neumarkt, Brink and Webergasse.

In 1887, a restaurant was set up on the Brink as a brewery bar, which was initially simply called the W. Engelhardt Brewery and later was called "Hessenschänke". The commonly used nickname for this pub was "Saufhaus". In 1889 Engelhardt was elected to the Hersfeld City Council, of which he was a member until his death in 1895 due to a stroke .

He was buried in the Hersfeld cemetery on Frauenberg with great sympathy from the population. The brewery was continued by the widow and two sons Heinrich and Ludwig.

literature

• Arno Bingel: Hersfeld through the ages. (= Archive images ) Sutton, Erfurt 2002, p. 18 and p. 69.
• Dieter Handtke: A nostalgic city tour through Bad Hersfeld. Bad Hersfeld 1995, p. 76 f. and pp. 129-131.
• Peter Roßkopf: A century of Engelhardt beer. Bad Hersfeld 1961.

Web links

• Engelhardt, Wilhelm. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).