Edmund Resch

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Edmund Resch
Born(1847-06-09)9 June 1847
Germany
Died22 May 1923(1923-05-22) (aged 75)
Burial place Waverley Cemetery
Notable work Resch's Limited

Edmund Resch (9 June 1847 - 22 May 1923) was a German-Australian brewer. He founded and operated the successful brewing company Resch's Limited, the name of which survives today as beer brand Resch's. [1]

Resch was born in Hörde in Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia and migrated to Australia in 1863 at age 16, reportedly to evade compulsory military service. He was a miner in Victoria and a succession of rural towns in New South Wales in the early 1870s before building and operating a hotel in Charters Towers in Queensland for four years. In c. 1877, he bought a cordial and aerated water factory at Wilcannia in far western New South Wales with one of his brothers. In 1883, they purchased a brewery at Cootamundra and named it the Lion Brewery, opening branches at Silverton and Tibooburra, but dissolved the partnership in 1885, after which Resch retained the Wilcannia interests and returned to brewing there. He appointed a manager to the brewery and moved to Melbourne in 1892. [1] [2]

In 1895, he returned to direct involvement in the brewing trade when he moved to Sydney to work as manager of Allt's Brewing & Wine and Spirit Co. Ltd. He purchased the company himself in 1897 and bought out rival New South Wales Lager Bier Brewing Co. Ltd. in 1900, rebranding each under the Resch's name. Following the NSW Lager Bier Brewing Co. purchase, he centralised brewing operations at their former base in Dowling St, Redfern, shifting the former Allt's operations from their Waverley base but retaining the Waverley Brewery name. In 1906, he incorporated Resch's Limited as a vehicle for his now substantial brewing interests. He was consul in Sydney for the Government of the Netherlands from 1903 to 1913. Resch was partially blinded after suffering an injury at sea while returning from a visit to Germany in 1913. He returned to Germany for treatment and was there at the commencement of World War I, but fled after being threatened with internment by German authorities and returned to Australia. [1] [2] [3] [4]

He financially supported the Australian war effort in World War I, contributing over £3000 and topping up the military salaries of Resch's workers who enlisted, but was nonetheless interned in Holsworthy Internment Camp in 1917 at the behest of Minister for Defence George Pearce, one of a number of German businessmen to be targeted. He was hospitalised while at Holsworthy due to poor health, and was shifted to home internment at his Darling Point residence in March 1918, remaining there until the end of the war. [1] [5] [6] [2] [7] It was reported during his internment that he had been ill for "eight or ten years" and was "living in retirement" and that his sons, Edmund and Arnold Resch, had been conducting the business. [8] [3] [9]

Resch died in 1923 and was buried at Waverley Cemetery. He left an estate valued at £316,829. His sons took over the business upon his death, but it collapsed in 1929 and was purchased by Tooth & Co. [1] [10] He was appointed as a member of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1913. [1] His family property, Swifts, which he owned from 1899 until his death, is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register. [11] [12]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Death of Mr Edmund Resch". Western Grazier . New South Wales, Australia. 2 June 1923. p. 2.
  3. 1 2 "SYDNEY BEEWER INTERNED". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 24, 928. New South Wales, Australia. 27 November 1917. p. 6.
  4. ↑ "LATE MR. E. RESCH". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 26, 641. New South Wales, Australia. 25 May 1923. p. 14.
  5. ↑ "INTERNMENT OF EDMUND RESCH". The Ballarat Star . No. 19, 175. Victoria, Australia. 28 November 1917. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Mr. Edmund Resch". The Yass Courier . Vol. LX, no. 1677. New South Wales, Australia. 4 March 1918. p. 4.
  7. ↑ "MR. EDMUND RESCH". Toowoomba Chronicle . Vol. LII, no. 53. Queensland, Australia. 4 March 1918. p. 6.
  8. ↑ "MR. EDMUND RESCH". Darling Downs Gazette . No. 8433. Queensland, Australia. 5 March 1918. p. 7.
  9. ↑ "INTERNING ALIENS". The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser . New South Wales, Australia. 28 November 1917. p. 3.
  10. ↑ "LATE EDMUND RESCH". The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser . New South Wales, Australia. 19 June 1923. p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Swifts". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Department of Planning & Environment. H00146. Retrieved 1 June 2018. CC BY icon.svg Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence .
  12. ↑ "The Passing of a Pioneer". Crookwell Gazette . Vol. XXXIX, no. 32. New South Wales, Australia. 13 June 1923. p. 1.
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