Willy Drube

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Willy Drube (born December 21, 1880 in Grebenstein ; † July 26, 1952 in Schierke ) was a Harz pharmacist and liqueur manufacturer who invented the herbal liqueur Schierker Feuerstein .

Live and act

Drube grew up as the son of a businessman in Grebenstein . During his school career, he attended the later Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Kassel . He then trained for three years from 1898 to 1901 in Wernigerode in the local council pharmacy. He completed his apprenticeship in 1901 by passing the pharmacist's assistant examination. From 1902 to 1903 he worked in the Kassel sun pharmacy.

In 1904 Drube served with the first Kurhessischer Feldartillerie Regiment 11 in Kassel. From 1904 to 1906 Drube studied at the TH in Braunschweig and passed the state examination in pharmacy there. In 1907 Drube received his license to practice medicine . In the period before World War I, Drube was already working in a branch pharmacy in Schierke, which he took over as administrator.

During World War I Drube took part as a non-commissioned officer and since 1915 as a lieutenant . In 1917 Drube received the Iron Cross 1st Class . After the war he continued to work as administrator of the Schierker pharmacy “zum red thimble”. In 1924 Drube was awarded the concession for it. In his pharmacy, Drube made the well-known herbal liqueur " Schierker Feuerstein " from a variety of foreign and German herbs and roots . According to his own statements, he had this patented in 1924.

Drube was a humorous person. In the 1930s, for example, he announced a competition for his own burial motto. His favorite was the poem that can still be read today on his tombstone in the Schierker cemetery:

"Pharmacist Drube
rests in this pit .
Oh 'wanderer hurry away from here,
otherwise he'll come out and drink with you."

When Drube's daughter married in 1936, he built a fountain in front of his pharmacy, from which he let "Schierker Feuerstein" gush.

After World War II , Schierke was in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1951 Schierke was declared a restricted zone and border troop location. Because Drube feared the expropriation of his company, he sent his eldest daughter to Bad Lauterberg in 1951 with the original recipe for “Schierker Feuerstein” in order to set up a second production facility for his herbal liqueur in West Germany.

The following year, Drube died at the age of 72. His family was not allowed to travel to the GDR for his funeral ; they had to watch the funeral with binoculars from nearby Wurmberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d International Society for the History of Pharmacy (ed.): The publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy . tape 60 . Scientific publishing company Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, p. 65 .
  2. ↑ Hilscher, Martha / Bruns, Julia: Doctor rolls up the story of Schierker liqueur again. In: https://www.volksstimme.de . March 2, 2013, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Staff Notes . In: German Pharmacists Association (Hrsg.): Apotheker-Zeitung . tape 16 , no. 76 . Self-published by the German Pharmacists Association, Berlin 1901, p. 692 .
  4. ↑ Staff Notes . In: German Pharmacists Association (Ed.): Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung . tape 21 , no. 93 . Self-published by the German Pharmacists Association, Berlin, p. 997 .
  5. ↑ Zietz, Rudolf: "Schierker Feuerstein" - from his story . In: Hildebrandt, Werner (Ed.): General Harz - Mountain - Calendar . Clausthal- Zellerfeld 1993, p. 170 .
  6. ↑ Association cond. Pharmacists for the German Reich, Association of German Pharmacists (Hrsg.): Zentralblatt für Pharmazie . tape 11 . Nuremberg 1915, p. 256 .
  7. ↑ Association cond. Pharmacist for the German Reich (ed.): Central sheet for pharmacy . tape 14-15 . Nuremberg 1918, p. 5 .
  8. ↑ International Society for the History of Pharmacy (ed.): The publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. tape 60 . Scientific publishing company Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, p. 65 .
  9. ^ Gorsemann, Sabine / Kaiser, Christian: Harz . DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2013, p. 151 .
  10. ↑ a b Ivonne Sielaff: The deceased leave traces in the history of a community. In: https://www.volksstimme.de . November 23, 2013, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Schierker Feuerstein: When schnapps gushed from the fountain in the Harz Mountains. In: https://www.mdr.de . August 11, 2019, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ SCHIERKE. In: https://www.wernigerode.de . Lord Mayor of the City of Wernigerode, March 5, 2020, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Thomas, Georg: To the unity! In: https://nw-ihk.de/ . Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanover, September 27, 2017, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Drube, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pharmacist and liquor manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Grebenstein
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1952
Place of death Schierke