Distillation business H. E. Jacobus

Heymann Ephraim Jacobus was born in Schivelbein in 1827. He initially ran a cloth and fashion goods shop in Greifenberg. In 1860, he acquired a residential and commercial building at Markt 14 in Schivelbein and opened a distillery there. During the anti-Semitic Schivelbein Excesses on August 7, 1881, the shop was destroyed and looted: In Heymann Jacobus „s store, the schnapps stocks ran down the throats of the people: the fury was kindled, the frenzy had reached its peak.“ „At H.E. Jacobus', the pöbel was the most raging, all the liquor bottles were thrown on the market, as well as bottles of liquor and other materials.“ „Burning matches were hurled into the liquor-filled barrels, and it was only through the quick intervention of a few prudent people that the fire was stopped in its tracks and terrible misfortune was prevented.“

The Jacobus family rebuilt the business.The „Bismarck-Bitter“ created by H.E. Jacobus a bitters made from the „most healing herbs“, became so successful that his descendants had the brand protected in 1911, „as adulterations had occurred in recent times“. Heymann Jacobus died on 01.02.1902 in Schivelbein. His son Emil continued the business until his death on December 18, 1935.

On September 10, 1936, the company H.E. Jacobus in Schivelbein ceased to exist.