Frederick Pabst
Frederick Pabst ( born April 28, 1836 in Nikolausrieth; † January 1, 1904 in Milwaukee ) was a German entrepreneur and president of Pabst Brewing Company.
Biography
Frederick Pabst was born in 1836 in Nikolausrieth. His parents were Gottlieb and Fredericka Pabst Pabst.
Together with his parents he emigrated in 1848 to Milwaukee in the United States. He first worked as a cook, Page and cabin boy before he was at the age of 21 years, captain and co-owner of the steamboat " Huron " and later the " Comet " and drove on the Great Lakes. In Milwaukee in 1859, he learned the also German-born brewer Phillip Best know whose daughter Mary he married in 1862.
In 1863, Pope narrowly escaped death when his ship ran aground during a storm on the beach in Whitefish Bay. Then he decided to go into the brewery of his father and bought half of the shares at the Phillip Best Brewing Company. The other half bought his brother Emil damage your.
Nine years later was president of the Pabst Brewery. Through his zeal, he contributed greatly to the success of the company. He was looking for the most brewers his time and made national advertising for its products. Between 1879 and 1893 field offices have been set up nationwide forty. In 1874, the Philip Best Brewing Company was the largest brewery in the United States.
Because of his contribution to the company's board voted in 1889 to rename the brewery in Pabst Brewing Company.
Frederick Pabst, the familiar blue ribbons one on the beer bottles. Following two gold medals for product quality at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878, he began to put blue ribbons around the necks of his beer. This trademark was established in 1895 in the name ( Pabst Blue Ribbon ) and the label was added after the beer at the World 's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was awarded with a blue ribbon.
Besides his work for the brewery Pabst sat for society and culture. In 1895 he opened the by architect Otto Strack designed Pabst Theater. In addition, he was a major investor for the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort.
In his spare time, Pabst was interested in horse breeding and in particular of Percheronpferden, Standardbreds and Saddlebreds.
During a trip through California in 1903 Pabst suffered two strokes. Six months later he died in 1904 in Milwaukee. It is located on the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee buried.
Today, the Pabst Mansion is a well-known landmark on the Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee.
Family
Frederick Pabst married on March 25, 1862 Maria Best ( born May 16, 1842). From the marriage ten children were born, of which only five survived to adulthood:
- Elizabeth (* 1865, † 1891)
- Gustave (* 1866, † 1943)
- Marie ( * 1868, † 1947)
- Frederick, Jr. ( * 1869, † 1958), husband of Ida Uihlein, daughter of slit - owner August Uihlein
- Emma (* 1871, † 1943)