Henri Nestlé

Henri Nestlé, until 1839 Heinrich Nestle ( born August 10, 1814 Frankfurt am Main, † July 7, 1890 in Glion, Switzerland ) was a Swiss businessman and industrialist of German origin.

Life

Heinrich Nestle was born on August 10, 1814 in the Töngesgasse in Frankfurt am Main as the eleventh of fourteen children of Johann Ulrich Matthias Nestle glazier and Anna Maria Catharina born husband. The late Senator and Appellationsgerichtsrat the Free City of Frankfurt Gustav Edmund Nestle was his brother. Five older siblings had died before he was born. His great-grandfather Johann Ulrich (1728-1816) had settled in 1755 as a glazier in Frankfurt am Main and acquired the rights of citizenship.

The Nästlin, nestlin, Nestlen or Nestle family is originally from southern Germany, Swabia, where he was preferably in the communities Dornstetten, Freudenstadt, Mindersbach, Nagold and Sulz am Neckar resident.

The ancestors of the family were three brothers (see family coat of arms with three young birds ) from Mindersbach to Nagold with the name Hans, Heinrich and Samuel nestlin. The oldest (Hans) was born 1520. He had a son with the same name, who was mayor of Nagold later. His son Ulrich was Bader and his fifth son Johann Jacob Glaser, the first in the family. About five generations this profession then went on from father to or one of the sons. In addition, set the Nestles several mayors in the municipalities Dornstetten, Freudenstadt, Nagold and Sulz am Neckar.

Work

His teaching pharmacists graduated from Nestle in Frankfurt from 1829 to 1833 in the bridge pharmacy in JE Stone. He then went on tour, as it was prescribed at that time for journeymen. During his education he had contacts with the opposition and was therefore exposed to reprisals.

With the emigration to Vevey in the French-speaking Switzerland in 1839 Heinrich Nestle changed his name to Henri Nestlé.

There he had a job at the town pharmacist M. Nicollier, who promoted him to forces. 1843 Nestlé therefore could acquire with the help of his master and financial assistance to his family a mill with integrated distillery. Here he began vinegar, bone meal, liqueurs and oil to produce. Besides, he also dabbled in the mustard and mineral production.

In 1849, Nestlé set up a small laboratory and tried to produce mineral fertilizers and liquid gas from vegetable oil according to the latest scientific findings. In the years 1858-1862 he sold this gas the city administration Vevey as street lighting. During this time he also acted with kerosene and oil lamps. Since the mid- 1850s Nestlé was friends with Jean Balthasar Schnetzler, a naturalist, who was appointed in 1869 as Professor of Natural History at the Académie de Lausanne. Schnetzler advised the town of Vevey in gas lighting and was even later for Nestlé a kind of guiding spirit. P.35

In 1857 there were financial difficulties of the " Fa Nestlé ", among other reasons, because the church Vevey Ground surrounded from LPG to coal gas. Looking for new business ideas Nestlé came to infant formula. Initial tests of the production of breast milk substitutes were not successful.

1860, during a stay in his native town, married Henri Nestlé, the Frankfurt doctor's daughter Clementine Therese Ehemant ( 1833-1900 ), which also umnannte named after their arrival in Vevey and from then wrote Ehmant. The couple remained childless and took the orphan Emma Seiler, called Emma Nestlé on.

Justus von Liebig in 1865 developed the first finished product for infants. Nestlé changed from its formulation and development in 1867 a kind of milk powder.

Under the name of Henri Nestle 's infant cereal, it came on the market and was a success. In the following months, " company was Nestlé " retooled to handle mass production. 1874 Nestlé started his company from which a net profit of 400,000 francs had in that year to withdraw. In 1875, he sold the entire company to his business friends Gustav Marquis, Jules Monnerat and Pierre- Samuel Roussy.

Starting this year, Nestlé and his family lived alternately in Montreux and Glion. At the age of 76 years Henri Nestlé Ehmant died on 7 July 1890 in Glion (VD ).

The now global company Nestlé is one of the largest and most commercially successful companies in the food sector.

Works

• Memorial on the food nutrition of infants (1869 )