August Otto Ludwig von Grote
August Grote (full name August Otto Ludwig Freiherr von Grote ; * July 3, 1787 in Grabow near Dannenberg (Elbe) , † May 5, 1831 ) was a German district chancellor and customs officer.
Life
August Otto Ludwig von Grote was a member of the von Grote family and brother of the diplomat and envoy Adolph von Grote .
He had been appointed to the Real Secret Council and was director of the Hanover War Chancellery.
In 1822 Obersteuererrat Grote was a member of the "Directions Committee" of the court theater, which was privately run in the castle theater at the time, in which, among others, the actor August Pichler appeared accompanied by several court musicians. Members of the committee under the direction of the Oberhofmarschall Graf Carl Philipp von Hardenberg were besides von Grote Hofrat Falck , the Senator Carl Ahles as well as the "Oberschenk" and "boss" of the orchestra Georg Wilhelm Friedrich von Platen-Hallermund .
As chief customs director, he was the authorized representative at the customs union negotiations from 1828 to 1831 and the initiator of the North German tax association .
literature
- August Otto Ludwig, Baron v. Grote , in: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume IX, pp. 395–399; Digitized via the Austrian National Library
- Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 535
- Wendland-Lexikon , Volume 1 (2000), pp. 278-279
Archival material
Archives by and about August Grote can be found, for example
- as an inventory under the title Intendantur des Hoftheater zu Hannover for the period from 1814 to 1992 in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hannover location) ; Archive signature NLA HA Hann. 132
Web links
- Grote, August in the German biography
- August Ludwig Otto Grote in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the information in the German biography
- ↑ a b c o. V .: Grote, August Otto Ludwig Freiherr von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on August 7, 2019
- ↑ a b c d Erwin Massute: Grote, barons and counts of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 162 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Michael Walter : Deutsche Hofoper , in ders .: Opera. History of an Institution , Stuttgart: J.-B.-Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung and Carl-Ernst-Poeschel-Verlag, [2016], ISBN 978-3-476-02563-0 and ISBN 978-3-7618-2068-1 and ISBN 3-476-02563-2 , p. 210; Preview over google books
- ↑ Compare the information on the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grote, August Otto Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grote, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German district chancellor and customs officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grabow (Lüchow) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1831 |