Carl Grote (lawyer)

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Carl Grote (also: Karl Grote or Karl von Grote or Carl Georg Christian Grote and Karl Georg Christian von Grote , born March 28, 1795 in Herrenhausen , † February 14, 1868 at Gut Schnega ) was a German upper mountain ridge.

origin

Carl Grote came from a Lower Saxon family of the ancient nobility in the Principality of Lüneburg . His father was the Hanoverian Minister of State Otto Ulrich Freiherr Grote (1750–1808), Lord of Jühnde and Horn; his mother Charlotte (1757-1821) a born von Plato . The Oldenburg government president Wilhelm Freiherr Grote was his oldest brother.

Life

Grote first studied law, later mining, with interruptions in participation as a volunteer in the wars of liberation , at the University of Göttingen . In the summer of 1812 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . After completing his studies in 1817, he first became a law firm auditor in the law firm in Hanover, in 1820 Bergdrost with the Clausthal Mining Authority and there in 1826 Oberbergrat. In 1834 Grote was a member of the Hanoverian government commission to examine the railroad issue , which dealt with the rail link between the city of Hanover and the Hanseatic cities with their seaports and the Hanover – Braunschweig connection . He published on the fundamental question of the railway system in Germany. Erwin Massute considers Grote's typeface to be on a par with the more well-known by Friedrich List . The Royal Hanover State Railways were founded in 1843. Grote retired in 1851 to devote himself to his Schnega estate and his interests.

As a deputy of the Lüneburg knighthood , he was a member of the 1st Chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1826 to 1832 and from 1859 to 1862 . He bequeathed his mineral collection to the Museum of Art and Science in Hanover.

family

In 1830 he married Bertha von Geyso (1812–1832), who was the daughter of the Hanoverian Colonel Leopold August von Geyso and Freiin Margarethe Sophie Charlotte Dorothea Grote and thus his cousin. After the death of his first wife in 1834 he married his niece Ada Palmedo (1812-1888), a daughter of Adolf Palmedo (actually Petri , 1784-1859) - British consul for Sardinia and Corsica - and the baroness Charlotte Grote . A son from his first marriage died young, from his second marriage 8 children were born, including:

  • Otto Adolf (1835–1891) ∞ Emma Grote (* November 25, 1838 - † October 15, 1911)

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • About a railway system for Germany, all statesmen and tradesmen of Germany from the heart . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1834.
  • About the purpose, importance and arrangement of mineralogical collections according to the deposits, in particular about the collection of this kind given to the local natural history society and placed in the new Museum for Art and Science in Hanover . Göhmann, Hanover 1856.
  • The legislation on public debt in the Kingdom of Hanover . Helwingsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Hanover 1860.
  • with Ludwig Debo : non-profit building associations. Report to the Royal Hanoverian Ministry of the Interior, submitted in March 1861, with special consideration of the conditions in the royal seat of Hanover . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1861.
  • with Ludwig Debo: non-profit washing and bathing establishments. Report to the Royal Ministry of the Interior in Hanover, with special consideration of the conditions in the royal city of Hanover . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1862 ( digitized version ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollments in Göttingen on April 2, 1812, May 23, 1814 and January 31, 1816.