Background
Karl Juchheim was born and raised in Kaub, Germany.
Karl Juchheim was born and raised in Kaub, Germany.
Early life in Jiaozhou
In 1908, the 22-year-old Juchheim moved to Jiaozhou Bay located in the Shandong Province of China. Jiaozhou, known to the Germans as Kiautschou, was at the time a German protectorate but still under Chinese rule under a treaty agreement made in 1898. Juchheim began working at a café in Jiaozhou.
In 1909 he began his own pastry shop where he sold cakes.
After a five-year stay in China he returned to Germany for a short time in order to find a wife. Although only recently returned from China, Juccheim and Elise returned to Jiazhou shortly after their engagement.
Prisoner of war
Shortly after World War I broke out, British and Japanese forces began the siege of Tsingtao. Karl and Elise were both sent to internment camps in Okinawa, Japan as prisoners of war.
Karl Juchheim and other prisoners were later relocated to Hiroshima in 1917.
lieutenant was in a German exhibition hall that Juchheim began baking and selling baumkuchen in Japan. With the end of World War I in 1918, most of the prisoners were released between December 1919 – January 1920. Post-War period
After the war, the Juchheims opened their own pastry shop in 1921 in Yokohama with the name East. Juchheim, named after Elise.
As a pastry chef Karl Juchheim was responsible for the production of the cake and pastries while Elise took care of sales.
The Great Kantō earthquake of September 1, 1923, destroyed their shop completely. The couple then moved to Kobe, borrowed a large sum of money and opened a new store.
The store was a success and saw growth soon after it opened. Death
Due to the Pacific War, by 1944 the lease to their shop was terminated because production was no longer possible.
The family then moved into the hotel Rokkōsanitary
There, Karl Juchheim died on August 14, 1945, a day before the surrender of Japan. Foreign cost reasons, his body was cremated. Subsequently his place and date of death were determined to be 6 May 1945, in Vienna.
After the war, Elise was expropriated and deported back to Germany by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
Elise Juchheim was able to return to Japan in 1953. Both Karl and Elise Juchheim are now buried in the cemetery in Ashiya.
Today, the headquarters for Juchheim Company, Limited. is in Kobe, Japan. Its characteristic design has been a tradition for about 40 years.
The company boasts that it still produces confectionery according to the original German recipe.
Juchheim in Japan has many branches and subsidiaries. Their shops are especially known for their baumkuchen cakes, Frankfurter Kranz, cookies, and apple pie. The group has about 564 employees and annual sales of ¥27.4 billion.