Alameda County Biographies

Louis J. Sievers

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Louis J. Sievers is known in business circles of Oakland as local manager of the John Wieland 
Brewery of San Francisco. His birth occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on the 16th of March, 1861, 
his father being Louis Sievers. His mother bore the maiden name of Schaffhausen. He began his 
education in a German-American school., later attended the public schools and subsequently 
pursued a two years' course in a business college. He then entered the University of Notre 
Dame but at the end of a year returned to Chicago and became a partner of his father, who was 
engaged in the wholesale liquor business, under the firm style of Louis Sievers & Son. In 
1890 he severed this connection and went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was engaged in 
the wholesale liquor business on his own account until 1895. In that year he sold out and 
again returned to his native city, remaining with his father until 1896, when he went to St. 
Paul, Minnesota, acting as salesman for the Schlitz Brewing Company until 1900. Subsequently 
he spent three years as manager of the Minneapolis branch and on the expiration of that 
period removed to San Francisco as assistant manager of the Wunder Brewery. He was afterward 
employed as traveling salesman by the wholesale liquor firm of Hotaling & Company for six 
months and at the end of that time came to Oakland, being here engaged in the real-estate 
business until April 30, 1911. On that date he became local manager for the John Wieland 
Brewery of San Francisco and has since held that important position, the business here having 
doubled under his able direction. Mr. Sievers likewise acts as president of the Oakland Beer 
Bottlers Association and is a member of the Board of Trade.
        On the 16th of March, 1887, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Sievers was united in 
marriage to Miss Von Ende, by whom he has a daughter, Agnes, who has decided talent as a 
vocalist and is studying for grand opera. In his political views he is a progressive 
republican. He is a strong man of excellent judgment, fair in his views and highly honorable 
in all his relations with his fellowmen.
 
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 139