Engelhardt Brewery

The small brewery was developed into a brewing empire by the Jewish businessman Ignatz Nacher. Ignatz Nacher was born in 1868 in Österreich-Schlesien and came to Engelhardt in 1901, became a partner, übernnahmte the then still small brewery. On June 26, 1913, Ignatz Nacher, a resident of Detmold, applied for his „naturalization“ at the High Fürst Government in Detmold „obediently. After the incorporation, he developed the Engelhardt brewery into the second largest brewery group in Germany. This included plants in Pankow Thulestraße, Charlottenburg Sophie-Charlotte-Straße, the malt beer brewery Groterjan and stakes in breweries in Bamberg, Dortmund (Stifts-Bier), Hamburg, among others.

The pasteurization and associated storage ability of the beer makes him so successful.

With the Nazi seizure of power was called to boycott the "Judenbieres". Nacher is quoted on May 19, 1933 to the Berlin city commissioner Julius Lippert, who takes Engelhardt shares worth 2.5 million Reichsmark from him at gunpoint and with the threat of being sent to concentration camps. In August, the arrest and expropriation took place in favor of Dresdner Bank. A lawsuit by Nacher was thrown out by the courts, and in 1939 he died impoverished in Switzerland.

The Aryanized brewery employed forced laborers until 1945, was hit in bombing raids but rebuilt in 1949. Until 1983 as Engelhardt brewery, from 1983 under Schulthei; was still produced beer in Berlin until 1998. Today, various buildings stand on the site of the brewery.