Reinhardt Rahr

Reinhardt Rahr (April 22, 1859 – October 18, 1921) was an American businessman and brewer.

Born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Rahr served an apprenticeship with a manufacturing chemist, in Chicago, Illinois, and attended classes at the Chicago College of Pharmacy graduating in 1877. He then graduated from University of Michigan in 1881. Rahr was in the beer and malt business in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and was also involved with the banking business. Rahr served on the Manitowoc Common Council. In 1886, he was elected mayor of Manitowoc. In 1887, Rahr was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a Democrat. Rahr died of a heart ailment at his home in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

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Rahr and Sons Brewing Company

Rahr and Sons Brewing Company is a brewery in Fort Worth, Texas. USA, owned by Fritz and Erin Rahr. Since opening in 2004, Rahr has introduced nine beers, eight of which have been bottled. Rahr beers are distributed throughout most of North Texas (including the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex), as well as in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, San Marcos, New Braunfels, Waco, Temple, College Station, Amarillo and surrounding areas.

Early history

The Rahr and Sons brewery was established in 2004 in a warehouse south of downtown Fort Worth by Frederick "Fritz" Rahr and his wife Erin, with a great deal of support from family and friends. Fritz Rahr, a former railroad company worker who has studied brewing in Germany and at the Siebel Institute, is a graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. When the brewery began production in the summer of 2004, its original head brewer was Jason Courtney, the 2002 Great American Beer Festival Small Brew Pub Brew Master of the Year, who had run Hub City Brewpub in Lubbock, Texas. Courtney installed the brewery and created the original recipes.

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Johannes Theodor Reinhardt

Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (3 December 1816, in Copenhagen – 23 October 1882, in Frederiksberg) was a Danish zoologist and herpetologist. He was the son of Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt.

He participated as botanist in the first Galathea Expedition (1845—1847). In 1848 he became a curator at the Kongelige Naturhistoriske Museum in Copenhagen (now University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum). He taught classes in zoology at the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (1856–1878) and at the University of Copenhagen (1861–1878). In 1854 he received the title of professor.

During the 1840s and 1850s he periodically worked in Brazil as an assistant to palaeontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880). He was an early supporter of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, and from his research of extinct species, was critical of George Cuvier's concept of "anti-evolutionary catastrophism".

With Christian Frederik Lütken (1827–1901), he was co-author of Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr (Contributions to the knowledge of Brazilian amphibians and reptiles).

Reinhardt (surname)

Reinhardt is a German, American, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian surname (from Germanic ragin, counsel, and hart, strong), and a spelling variant of Reinhard. It may refer to:

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