Anton Altenburger Home

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This file appears in: Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers
Anton Altenburger Home

Altenburger was a member of the Local 97 Brewery Workers Union.

Date: September, 2013

Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka

This file appears in: Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers

By Dave Riehle
German workers and German bosses had a monopoly on brewing beer in St Paul, as they did almost everywhere in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As historian Gary Brueggeman has explained (“Beer Capital of the State-St Paul’s…