Rodolphe Lindt

Rodolphe Lindt 1880

Rodolphe Lindt, actually Rudolf Lindt (* 16 July 1855 in Bern, † 20 February 1909 ibid) was a Swiss chocolate manufacturer and inventor. He was the founder of the chocolate factory Lindt as well as the inventor of the conching machine and other methods for improving the quality of the chocolate. Edit LifeQualtext

He was the son of pharmacist and politician Johann Rudolf Lindt as well as his wife Amalia Eugenia née Salchli. From 1873 to 1875 he graduated in Lausanne at the chocolate factory Amédée Kohler & amp; fils. In 1879 he founded his own chocolate factory in the Mattequartier on the Aare in Bern.

Still in December of that year, he succeeded in improving the then still very modest chocolate quality by the development of the Conchiermaschine, a longitudinal stirrer for the refinement of the consistency and volatilization of unwanted aromas. Also, he was the first cocoa butter to enter the chocolate mass. These two innovations contributed significantly to the high quality of Swiss chocolate.

In 1899 Lindt sold his factory and the "secret" of the Conchierens to the Chocolat Sprüngli AG, which since then under the name Lindt & Sprüngli AG. For the trademark rights and the Lindt recipes, Sprüngli had to pay 1.5 million gold francs. Lindt introduced the "Berner Zweig" from Lindt & amp; Sprüngli until 1905, four years before his death. Edit source text Standard data (person): GND: 129429929 (PICA, AKS) | VIAF: 70008485 | Wikipedia People Search

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