Adolf Adam by Bruce
Adolf Adam Herzog , from 1872 by Bruce (* March 21, 1835 , † 1901 in Warmbrunn ) was a senior Prussian official and benefactor.
Life
He was the son of the royal Prussian government and medical councilor August Herzog (1800-1886) and his wife Mathilde Bruce from an originally Scottish noble family naturalized in Sweden in 1668 .
The law graduate Adolf Duke was - his father probably representative and recognizing the merits - as a royal Prussian Government Assessor in the international border Regulatory Commission to Metz collected on June 3, 1872 in Berlin in the Prussian nobility named "Bruce" and allowed the arms of his wearing Swedish grandfather Adam Bruce .
On his later travels through Bavaria , Tyrol and Switzerland , Adolf von Bruce recognized the value of a qualified training for home-working wood carvers. That is why he wanted to found a wood carving school in the Giant Mountains based on the model of the carving school in Berchtesgaden and stipulated in his will that after his death his fortune would be brought into the "Von Bruce Foundation" he founded. The purpose of the foundation was, in addition to the "permanent care" of his grave and his parents' grave, the establishment and operation of the wood carving school in Bad Warmbrunn.
The mayor of Bad Warmbrunn, Heinrich Rösel , realized this wish after Bruce's death. Since it soon became apparent that the foundation's capital would not be sufficient for the long-term operation of the school, Rösel successfully took care of further private and public donations together with the member of the state parliament, Hugo Seydel .
On November 7, 1902, the Bad Warmbrunn wood carving school began teaching under the direction of its founding director Christian Hermann Walde .
The school worked very successfully until the German population was expelled from Bad Warmbrunn at the end of the Second World War in March / April 1945. The school was closed on March 1, 1946. The tradition of the Warmbrunn wood carving school as a vocational school was continued in Freiburg im Breisgau after the war . Her last director Ernst Rülke continued her artistic training together with his pupil Elsbeth Siebenbürger at the “Master School for Wood Sculptors” in Stuttgart .
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, page 128, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1074.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruce, Adolf Adam from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duke, Adolf Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian official and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1835 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1901 |
| Place of death | Warmbrunn |