Jerome Hatt

Jerome Hatt or Hatten is a Master Alsatian brewer born in Strasbourg on November 12th, 1633 and died in Strasbourg in 1675.

Resulting from a patrician family of Strasbourg and wire of dyer, it is allowed with the corporation of the wet coopers, obtains his control of brewer in 1664 and rents the brewery of Canon places Corbel. It thus inaugurates a dynasty of brewery owners who will mark the Alsace during more than 300 years and eight generations.

The elder branch manages the family brewery which will give birth after the Second world war to the Brasseries Kronenbourg and their famous 1664, reference to the founder of the dynasty. The Hatt will remain with the head of the company until 1977.

The branch junior will direct the Brasserie of the Hope to Schiltigheim until its repurchase by Heineken in 1972.

Gustave Erhardt, founder of Adelshoffen in 1860 is also related for him by its marriage with Fanny Hatt.

Irony of the History the last owner brewer of the family is also called Jerome Hatt (1912-1998).

Source

Michel Hau and Nicolas Stoskopf, Alsatian Dynasties , Perrin, 2005

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