Carl Gruner

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the engineer of the same name, see Carl Gruner (engineer) .

Carl Adalbert Gruner (born February 5, 1865 in Bremen ; † May 29, 1924 in Bremen) was a German businessman, Bremen member of parliament and senator (DVP) in the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

biography

Family, education and work

Gruner comes from the Bremen merchant family of August Wilhelm Gruner (1778-1859), an overseas merchant who traded in the West Indies , lived in Bremen since 1797, founded the Gruner & Co company, expanded it into AW Gruner after 1814 and 1822 and in 1839 renamed as AW Gruner & Sons . He was also head of the Seafaring House . His two sons Siegfried and Carl ran the company after 1849 and mainly traded in tobacco, coffee and sugar. The grandson Carl Adalbert Gruner was also a merchant and later led its partners, the company under the name CA Gruner & Co . based in the Bremen Cotton Exchange .

He was buried in the Riensberger Friedhof (Q0172A).

politics

Gruner became a member of the liberal-conservative German People's Party (DVP) in 1918/19 .

He was already in the 14th to 16th electoral term from 1908 to 1918 as a merchant member of the Bremen citizenship and after the First World War 1919/1920 member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly .

He was a senator in Bremen from November 1916 to the end of 1918. Since 1919 he was again senator in the Senate under Karl Deichmann (SPD) and from 1920 to 1924 (†) in the Senate under Martin Donandt (non-party).

See also

• List of Bremen Senators

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Prüser:  Gruner, August Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 227 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Hubert Wania: 15 years in Bremen ; 1906-1920, p. 176.
3. ^ Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume III pp. 223, 226, 269, 449. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .