Lorenz Adlon
Lorenz Adlon (* May 29, 1849 in Mainz, † April 7, 1921 in Berlin) was a German restaurateur and hotelier.
Life
Lorenz Adlon was born as Lawrence, the sixth of nine children, in Mainz. His parents were the shoemaker Jacob Adlon and his wife Anna Maria Elizabeth, a midwife. After his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Mainz Art Carpenter Bembé Lorenz Adlon led first, located at the Mainzer garden box on the Rhine Ausflugslokal Raimundigarten. With the acquisition of catering services to a shooting in Dusseldorf, the German Gymnastics Festival 1880 in Frankfurt am Main, the Bavarian Trade Exhibition 1882 in Nuremberg, and especially at the World Expo 1883 in Amsterdam, he was commercially successful.
In the 1880s Adlon went to Berlin, where he gradually acquired several restorations. Under his leadership, the restaurant Hiller, Unter den Linden 62/63, the most elegant restaurant in Berlin was. With the land lease of the hotel Continental in New Town Church Street he took in the Berlin hotel industry foot. Later he took over the zoo terraces and in 1896 he operated at the Berlin Trade Fair with Rudolf Dressel "Main Restaurant Adlon and Dressel " am Neuen See in Tiergarten. He also led in the Wilhelmstrasse, a wine wholesaler.
Shortly after the turn of the century he erected in Berlin equipped with all the luxury Nobel Hotel Adlon, for which he had designed its facade Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Palais Rederns, demolished. Add to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who the house on October 24, 1907, two days before the official opening, and visited more luxury than vorfand at his residence, he had henceforth a wealthy regulars. The Adlon was the center of social life in Berlin. As to the wedding celebrations Princess Viktoria Luise and later Duke of Brunswick Ernst August traveled all the European aristocracy in May 1913 resided guests, among them the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the British King George V, at the Adlon Hotel.
1918 Lorenz Adlon was hit on the emperor reserved for medium transit of a truck at the Brandenburg Gate with rebel soldiers. In 1921, he was run over again at the same place, a few days later, he died as a result of the accident. He was buried at the Berlin Old Cathedral Cemetery of St. Hedwig's Parish in Liesenstrasse. The tomb with a marble relief by Walter Schott can be found at the cemetery marking WG field wall 2, G4. His son Louis, actually Ludwig Anton, continued to manage the hotel. Lorenz Adlon Percy Adlon great grandson turned on the history of the hotel the documentary In the glamorous world of the Hotel Adlon.
Lorenz Adlon was a member of the Masonic Lodge to concord in Berlin.
Trivia
Lorenz Adlon is also called the gourmet restaurant under Hendrik Otto in today Adlon.