Adolf von Grote (politician, 1830)

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Adolf von Grote (1830–1898). Photograph by Leopold Haase & Comp., Berlin, around 1878

Adolf Graf von Grote (born June 16, 1830 in Paris , † July 6, 1898 in Varchentin ) was a German politician, Hanoverian envoy and member of the German Reichstag .

origin

Coat of arms of those of Grote
The house on Sophienstrasse 7 in Hanover, also known as the Grote-Palais

Adolf Graf von Grote comes from the old Lower Saxon noble family Grote . The lords , barons and counts Grote belonged to the primeval nobility in the Principality of Lüneburg . He was the son of the Hanoverian envoy of the same name in Paris, Adolph Graf von Grote (1769-1841) and his wife of Freiin Karoline von und zu Schachten (* July 12, 1801; † March 8, 1885).

Life

Grote attended the educational establishment in Schnepfenthal from 1841 to 1845 and the Knight Academy in Lüneburg from 1845 to 1848 . He then embarked on a military career and was a lieutenant in the royal Hanoverian Guard Hussar Regiment from 1848 to 1853 . From 1854 to 1855 he studied in Berlin . He was then from 1855 to 1856 attaché of the Hanoverian embassy in Vienna and from 1856 to 1858 auxiliary worker in the Hanoverian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1858 and 1860 he was Secretary of Legation in St. Petersburg and from 1863 to 1866 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Madrid .

From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the German Reichstag as a welfe and guest of the German Center Party for the constituency of Hanover 17 ( Harburg ).

Between 1862 and 1864 he had the architect Otto Goetze build the house on Sophienstrasse 7 , which is now a listed building, in downtown Hanover . The Varchentin estate came through his wife Marie, b. Jenisch to Count Grote.

family

On April 25, 1860, he married Marie Jenisch (* December 5, 1841; † May 11, 1922), a granddaughter of Hamburg Senator Martin Johann Jenisch the Elder . The couple had several children:

  • Otto (April 28, 1861 - January 11, 1942)
⚭ 1884 Louise Cecilie Mutzenbecher (* March 31, 1867; † 1892)
⚭ 1900 Alice van Bergen (February 22, 1877 - September 18, 1960)
  • Helene Caroline Marie Doraline (born June 23, 1862) ⚭ 1885 Walther von Tiele-Winckler (1858–1909), brother of Franz Hubert von Tiele-Winckler
  • Stefanie Luise Guidobaldine Caroline (* June 16, 1863 - October 22, 1942) ⚭ 1890 Georg Karl Gebhard von der Wense (* January 25, 1848 - March 1, 1931), Chamberlain
  • Gernand Alexander Albert Otto (born September 20, 1870)
  • Tyra (born June 8, 1881)
  • Ernst August (born April 22, 1884)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 129.
  2. ↑ Stadtafeln of Hanover: Villa Grote (Plate 83) , private website, as of January 2007 retrieved 18 May 2010
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grote, Adolf Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and politician (DHP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1898
Place of death Varchentin