Curt Grottewitz

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Curt Grottewitz , actually Max Curt Pfütze , (born February 22, 1866 in Grottewitz , Saxony , † July 16, 1905 in Müggelheim ) was a German scientist , writer and Germanist . He was the founder of the migrant workers' movement.

Life

Memorial plaque on Alt-Müggelheim 15, in Berlin-Koepenick

Max Curt Pfütze, the third son of the landowner Friedrich Julius Pfütze, attended the Princely School in Grimma . He then studied German, philosophy and natural sciences in Leipzig , Munich , Berlin and Paris . After graduating and writing a dissertation on literature, he first lived in Eberswalde , Hennickendorf and Kagel , and from 1891 as a farmer in what was then the village of Müggelheim near the city of Köpenick .

As a writer, he took the pseudonym 'Grottewitz' after his native town from 1892 upon advice from his wife . He maintained close relationships with the Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis and well-known social democrats of his time such as August Bebel , Wilhelm Liebknecht , Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein .

After a phase of crisis in his life, Grottewitz turned, like many contemporaries, e.g. B. Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Bürgel , the popularization of natural history topics. Between 1906 and 1933 he was one of the most widely read authors by the working class, with hiking and nature conservation organizations and with the friends of nature in Berlin and the surrounding area. His works were published several times before and after the First World War . With his works, Grottewitz wanted to bring the interrelationships of nature closer to his readership from an ecological perspective . He described numerous plants in detail and tried to illustrate the cultural value of nature and its usefulness for humans. At the same time he campaigned for the preservation of nature and against its overexploitation . Three hiking trails in the vicinity of Müggelheim are named after Grottewitz .

On July 16, 1905, Grottewitz had a fatal accident. Creeping plants were his undoing while bathing in the Große Krampe near Müggelheim.

In Müggelheim there is a memorial plaque on his former home at Alt-Müggelheim 15 (corner of Odernheimer Straße), which was put up in 1966 on his 100th birthday. On May 1, 1989, at the instigation of the Kulturbund der GDR, a memorial plaque was placed on the house where he was born in Grottewitz (house no. 7).

Grottewitz is buried in the honor grove of the Müggelheim cemetery at Krampenburger Weg 13.

Works

literature

  • Haig Latchinian : From the landlord's son to the pioneer of the labor movement - the fatally injured writer Curt Grottewitz (1866-1905) gave himself the name of his place of birth near Grimma . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, April 5, 2016, p. 27
  • Peter Morris-Keitel: "What an old revolutionary nature is ...". To Curt Grottewitz (1866-1905) . In: Grüner Weg 31a. Journal for the social and intellectual history of the environmental movement 14 (2000), 3–20.
  • Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .
  • Oliver Kersten: The Friends of Nature movement in the Berlin-Brandenburg region 1908–1989 / 90. Continuities and breaks. Berlin 2007 (Additional dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin 2004) Naturfreunde-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-925311-31-4

Web links

Commons : Curt Grottewitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Grottewitzstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  2. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 390, 404, 489 .
  3. ↑ http://www.grottewitz.de/index.php/persoenitäten/dr-curt-grottewitz/sein-leben
  4. ↑ Source: Antiquariat Frankenland, ZVAB. Last accessed on July 18, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Grottewitz, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puddle, Max Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist, writer and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Grottewitz , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1905
Place of death Müggelheim