Ernst Grohne

Ernst Grohne (born March 14, 1888 in Eiterfeld near Hünfeld , † September 24, 1957 in Fulda ) was a German museum director of the Focke Museum in Bremen .

biography

Grohne House, Friedrich-Mißler-Strasse 35

Riensberg House , part of the Focke Museum

Grohne was the son of a judge. He grew up in Witzenhausen and attended high school in Hann. Münden and studied history, linguistics and geography at the University of Tübingen and the University of Göttingen . He received his doctorate as Dr. Phil. In Göttingen. He initially worked in the field of folklore, then he expanded his studies to include art and prehistory. In 1914 he became Otto Lauffer's assistant at the Museum of Hamburg History . He was a soldier in the First World War . In 1923 he founded the Low German magazine for folklore .

In 1924 he was appointed director of the trade and history museum in Bremen , which since 1918 has been called the “Focke Museum for Bremen Antiquities”. He completed the incorporation of the Gewerbemuseum into the Focke Museum, which was initiated in 1922, and redesigned the museum in the former old people's home on Grossenstrasse by 1927 . He had a good reputation as a specialist in prehistory, folklore, art and cultural history. He did research in the area of Wurten and carried out the excavations of the Mahndorfer burial ground on the Mahndorfer dune . In 1927/28 the modern Grohne House was built for him according to plans by the architect Ernst Becker . In 1933 he was also given the task of preserving historic monuments . He also taught at the Nordic Art School .

During the Second World War he managed to acquire the holdings of the museum a. a. save through outsourcing; however, the museum building was destroyed. Grohne started the museum again in a house in Bremen- Riensberg , which he also lived in from 1945. Then the museum barn was built in the neighborhood. In 1953 the Focke Museum was set up in the main building of an 18th century estate. Grohne published the annual publications of the Focke Museum. He accompanied the planning for the first new building of a state museum from 1959. He was followed in 1953 as state monument curator and museum director Dr. Werner Kloos . In 1953, when he retired, the Senate awarded him the title of Professor.

The Ernst-Grohne-Weg at the Focke Museum in Schwachhausen bears his name.

Works (selection)

• Old Bremen works of art Fate and Loss . Bremen 1928.
• Bremen soil and excavator finds . In: Annual journal of the Focke Museum 1929 . Pp. 44-102.
• Folklore from old Bremen . In: Low German magazine for folklore . 11, 1933.
• The Bremen chests with representations of the Reformation and the origin of their motifs . Bremen 1936, pp. 68–80 [Maiengrün, bridal crown, drinking manners, house names]
• Wurten research in the Bremen area . In: Annual journal of the Focke Museum 1938 . Bremen 1938.
• Clay vessels in Bremen since the Middle Ages . In: Focke Museum's annual journal 1940 . Bremen 1940.
• The farmhouse in the Bremen area . In: Annual journal of the Focke Museum 1941 . Bremen 1941
• Mahndorf. Early history of the Bremen area . Bremen 1953.
• Old treasures from the Bremen cultural sector . Bremen 1956.

See also

• Preservation of monuments in Bremen

literature

• Dietrich Steilen: Ernst Grohne. In: Otto Heinrich May (Ed.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , Vol. 5, 1962, p. 133.
• Grohne memorial . In: Heimat und Volkstum, yearbook for Bremen and Lower Saxony folklore 1957 . [Biography, list of publications]
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Sandra Geringer, Dirk Mahsarski: Ernst Grohne and his excavations - an example from Bremen. In: Focke-Museum (Hrsg.): Graben für Germanien - Archäologie unterm Hakenkreuz , Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2673-7 , pp. 74-81.
• Dirk Mahsarski, Sabrina Schütze: Museum "Väterkunde" and Focke Museum - two examples from Bremen. In: Focke-Museum (Hrsg.): Graben für Germanien - Archeologie unterm Hakenkreuz , Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2673-7 , pp. 94-100.