Early Life
Lorenz Adlon was born in Mainz as Laurenz, the sixth out of nine children of shoemaker Jacob Adlon and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth Schallot, an accoucheuse. The grandfather Andreas Adlon of the paternal family an electoral groom was originating from the Spessart region.
He was trained as a cabinet maker, finishing an apprenticeship in 1872 at the nationally leading Bembé cabinet-making workshop of Mainz. Indeed, Adlon would eventually request its services, for furnishing the future Hotel Adlon of Berlin.
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