Bürgerbräu Hersbruck Deinlein

How it all started For centuries there were so-called communal brewers in the small towns of Franconian Switzerland. These were mostly innkeepers with a legal right to serve their own beer in their inn. In the 19th century, those brewers in Hersbruck divided into two groups - those with their own brewery and those who worked as communal brewers. Johann Konrad Deinlein (* January 28, 1831) was mentioned for the first time as a brewer. He passed his brewery on to his son. Due to economic upheavals, the brewery was sold and Johann Konrad (the younger) worked as a municipal brewer. His son Hans didn't want to be a brewer. He became a notary. But then he missed the father's craft. He acquired an economy on the Lower Market with a municipal brewing right, worked hard, survived the First World War, married in 1918 and founded the Bürgerbräu Hersbruck, Deinlein and Co in their current legal form on July 26, 1920 with other partners. Where many shareholders have their say, there can be disputes. Annoyed, Hans Deinlein left the management. He founded a beer depot in Nuremberg. A lot of work again - and again successful. In the Great Depression of 1928/29, the Bürgerbräu threatened to fail. Hans Deinlein was asked to return to Hersbruck, sold the depot, got back into the brewery, converted it into a KG and was the personally liable partner. After the Second World War, attempts were again made to force Hans Deinlein out of the brewery. On his birthday in 1948, Hans Deinlein was confirmed as a partner and managing director by the American military government. From 1951 his family owned the brewery alone. He died in 1956. The widow Babette and his daughter Lotte took their place. On January 1, 1969, she became the sole managing director and remained so until 2003. She worked successfully and the brewery flourished. The marriage of her daughter Ursula with Hermann Weid, the younger son of the Lichtenauer Hauff-Bräu, was a stroke of luck. As a master brewer, he saw the need for renewal at an early stage. The main reason why Bürgerbräu Hersbruck is still in tough competition today. Lotte's daughter Ursula was appointed to the management in 2003. Until her death in January 2009, Lotte Götz worked in the brewery - as is often the case in family businesses. And now the next generation has entered the brewery. The next boss is also a woman - Sonja Weid (* 1976). The great fire in 1987 On May 18, 1987, at around 10:30 p.m., a fire broke out in the locksmith's shop. Vollguthalle, Schalander, master brewer's office and toilets burned down. (see press report of the HZ from May 20th, 1987) What a blow. But you showed perseverance. Together with the team, you did it yourself. The new construction of the full goods hall with outbuildings was completed in December 1987. And one thing has remained - a deep friendship with the Hersbruck volunteer fire brigade. A little anecdote from those 'hot' days: When the comrades assigned to the fire station stepped into the remains of the full goods hall, the then master brewer Hans Zink pointed to the full goods and said shortly: “Of course drink everything!” This saying is still happily quoted to this day.