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21st October 1854
21st October 1854
Carl Georg August Fitger was born of a well-to-do family in Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen, Germany. He was the younger brother of famous German painter and poet Arthur Fitger. His older sister lived in Wisconsin and asked young August to come too. He did, and on December 26, 1871 he arrived in New York City. He was seventeen years of age. Fitger made his way to his sisters home town of Kiel where he got a job in a brewery. He interrupted his career in 1877 in order to return to Germany and get a brewmaster's title from the Weihenstephan School in Munich. He then returned to America and brewed for the A. Leisy Brewery in Cleveland (1881), then the Samuel Wainwright & Co. Brewery in St. Louis (1882). In 1882 Michael Fink hired Fitger to be brewmaster of his Lake Superior Brewery in Duluth, Minnesota. Less than six months later Fitger paid Fink $18,000 for half-interest in the brewery. Fitger was just twenty-eight years old. In 1885 Fitger's friend Percy Shelley Anneke purchased Fink's interest and the new partners renamed their brewery A. Fitger & Co., Lake Superior Brewery. The friends ran the Fitger Brewery for the next 35 years until National Prohibition shut them down. Fitger and Anneke then retired to Santa Barbara California, where Fitger took up an interest in mining. He made another fortune when he sold his mining interests to the Johns Manville Company in 1928. Carl Georg August Fitger died on August 14, 1933 at age 78 years.
Carl Georg August Fitger was born of a well-to-do family in Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen, Germany. He was the younger brother of famous German painter and poet Arthur Fitger. His older sister lived i... View More
1875 FoundedMichael Fink, Lake Superior BrewerySuperior Between 5th & 6th Avenues
1882 Michael Fink & Co. (August Fitger)Superior Between 5th & 6th Avenues
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A. (August) Fitger & Co., Lake Superior Brewery
1883 A. (August) Fitger & Co., Lake Superior Brewery532/600 East Superior Street
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The Hub tavern in Virginia, Minnesota features a custom Fitger's Beer corner sign.
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The Fitger Co., Inc. (Prohibition-era)
1922 The Fitger Co., Inc. (Prohibition-era)532/600 East Superior Street
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14th August 1933
14th August 1933
August Fitger, one time president of the Duluth brewery that bore his name, died while convalescing from a stroke in a Beverly Hills hotel.
August Fitger, one time president of the Duluth brewery that bore his name, died while convalescing from a stroke in a Beverly Hills hotel.
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A beautiful Fitger's Natural Beer sign hangs on a bar outside Duluth, Minnesota.
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Two men enjoy some Fitgers in cone top cans while camping.
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1984 Lake Superior Brewing Co.532/600 East Superior Street
1994 Fitger's (microbrewery)532/600 East Superior Street
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