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Johann Hubert died in 1949 in Philadelphia, Hermann in 1915 during World War I in Tahure, France and Carl died with the last bomb attack on Cologne on March 2nd 1945. Heinrich Reissdorf worked in the brewery up until 1952 when he died afer becoming sick during a trip to Heidelberg. Friedrich Reissdorf died after a long and industrious life in 1953 in Cologne. The sons of founder: Heinrich, Hermann, Friedrich and Carl Reissdorf converted to the company to an OHG in 1908.
In 1923 the product range of bottom-fermenting beers increased to Pils, Marches and Export. The Obergärige brewery was renamed to Brauerei Heinrich Reissdorf - OHG accordingly.
Heinrich led the technical part of the brewery, Friedrich and Carl Reissdorf divided the interior and field service. In the war year of 1917, when the men were in the field, Katharina Reissdorf, the wife of Friedrich Reissdorf, managed the brewery. Friedrich and Katharina had three sons: Heinrich (who died of a brewery accident in 1936), Hermann Josef and Karl-Heinz Reissdorf (The later two managed the brewery till their death in 1996 and 1997). They led the brewery after World War II as partners. At the present Ute Reissdorf, the daughter of Karl-Heinz Reissdorf, and Michael von Rieff, stepson of Hermann Josef Reissdorf, are managing the brewery. Continuity and a sense of necessity have made it possible for the Brauerei Heinrich Reissdorf to survive over 100 years.
Picture: Brauerei Heinrich Reissdorf around 1900.
