Albert Gröning (politician, 1839)

Albert Gröning (born January 26, 1839 in Bremen , † June 23, 1903 in Bremen) was a senator and mayor of Bremen.

biography

Gröning was the son of Bremen Syndicus Albert Gröning (1784-1843) and the grandson of Mayor Georg Gröning (1745-1825). He studied law in Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen in 1857 . In 1860 he became a lawyer in Bremen in the law firm Ahlers & Vogel, which was founded in 1858 and later named as it is . He was a member of the national association . In 1863 he was a co-founder of the Bremen advance loan association , from which the Bremer Gewerbebank AG emerged in 1885 . In 1867 he was elected to the Bremen citizenship . In 1870 he volunteered to take part in the Franco-German War .

In 1871 he was appointed senator . As a senator, he managed the office of landlord , an authority of Bremen's municipal administration, until 1890 , and was head of Bremen's finance and tax system. His concerns as Finance Senator were the increasing debts of the city of Bremen. He was a staunch opponent of the protectionist protective tariff policy of the German Reich and a proponent of free trade . In 1895, 1897, 1900 and 1902 until his death, Gröning was mayor of Bremen for one year .

In 1880 Gröning was a member of the five-member executive committee of the Liberal Association , which also included the MPs Heinrich Rickert and Gustav Lipke and the non-parliamentarians Friedrich Kapp and Theodor Wilhelm Lesse .

See also

• List of Bremen Senators
• List of Bremen mayors

literature

• Friedrich Prüser :  Gröning, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 114 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 85 , 170.