Paulaner Brauerei history

In 1813, the year Zacherl obtained the business outright, he was also granted the right to sell Salvator at a price higher than the officially regulated rate for other beers.

Salvator is said to have caused a minor revolution in Munich in 1844.

1848: Zacherl dies and the brewery passes into the hands of his nephews, the Schmederer brothers.

In 1899, the business was reorganized as the Actiengesellschaft Paulanerbrau (zum Salvatorkeller) in München.

In 1928 Thomasbräu merged with the Paulaner brewery.

By then, the company's annual beer production had climbed to over 730,000 hl (19.3 million gallons). It topped one million hl (26.5 million gallons) in 1971.

In 1979, Paulaner was itself acquired when Josef Schorghuber purchased more than 96 percent of the company's stock for DM 100 million.

1989 »First Paulaner Bräuhaus - Kapuzinerplatz in Munich« The building at Kapuzinerplatz 5 is the former public restaurant of the Thomasbräu brewery and has been a Munich Wirtshaus ever since.

1990: Paulaner enters newly-opened East German market and acquires Brauerei Dessau.

The changes were a response to the enormous amounts of water being used by Munich breweries in the production of beer; in 1992 approximately three million cubic meters of water were used, nearly half of which was accounted for by Paulaner.

In 1994 the Dessau brewery was closed down for good.

In 1996, however, the company was able to report profits of nearly DM 4 million.

In 1997 another court ruled that holders of Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr stock were entitled to DM 228 and DM 185 respectively, for interest they had been denied by Schorghuber's accounting methods.