Peiser, Heinrich

Heinrich Peiser was born in Posen on April 30, 1875, the son of Samuel Peiser, a liquor manufacturer, and his wife Marie, née Posner. His siblings were Julia (1873), Alfred (1876), Selma (1877), Amanda (1882) and Leo (1883), who died at the age of 4. Heinrich Peiser ran the family liqueur factory with his father in Posen. In 1909 he married Gertrude Trude Mendelssohn. Their daughter Annemarie was born in Posen on February 1, 1910, followed by Hans-Günther in 1920, but he died after a few days. Then Lotte Alice was born in Berlin on July 4, 1921. Heinrich Peiser founded Polifa, a liqueur and fruit juice factory there with two other Poznan liqueur manufacturers, and in 1930 he founded the Heinrich Peiser Liqueur Factory.