Lorenz Adlon
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Lorenz Adlon (1911)
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29 May 1849 Mainz, Germany |
| Died | 7 April 1921 (aged 71) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | caterer, gastronomer and hotelier |
Lorenz Adlon (German: [ˈaːdlɔn]; 29 May 1849 – 7 April 1921) was a German caterer, gastronomer and hotelier.
Lorenz Adlon was born in Mainz as Laurenz, the sixth out of nine children of shoemaker Jacob Adlon and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth Schallot, an accoucheuse. The grandfather Andreas Adlon of the paternal family an electoral groom was originating from the Spessart region.
He was trained as a cabinet maker, finishing an apprenticeship in 1872 at the nationally leading Bembé cabinet-making workshop of Mainz. Indeed, Adlon would eventually request its services, for furnishing the future Hotel Adlon of Berlin.
Lorenz Adlon was married twice. His first wife was Susanne Wannsiedel, the daughter of a hotel manager of Mainz; they had three boys and two girls from 1872 to 1877, until she died in 1878. Adlon got married again to Fanny Claus, a widow from a prosperous family of Stuttgart, who died just short time after in 1893, in Berlin.
Lorenz Adlon joined a fellow student, opening a wine store together, for selling what was produced by the many regional vineyards.
During those years, Adlon couldn't resist the appeal, often visiting the Holländische Hof hotel near the Rhinefront, there taking note of the German aristocracy and its culinary customs. Adlon also was an athletic person, and —reportedly — he once catered his whole team, in a profitable experience which particularly fueled Adlon's dream for a gastronomic career.
Lorenz Adlon got earnestly interested for gastronomy after a trip to France; after returning from the Franco-Prussian War, Adlon so started working as an innkeeper, in 1872. In 1876, Adlon accomplished his first big job in Mainz, catering the crowds during a regional shooting contest.
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