Ernst Grote (entrepreneur)

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The businessman, food wholesaler and coffee roaster founder Ernst Grote; around 1910

Ernst Grote (born October 26, 1845 in Leese near Nienburg an der Weser , † October 25, 1927 in Hanover ) was a German merchant and coffee roaster .

Life

Knaggen - and filling board decorations at the Grotehaus with a coffee-drinking lady with a hood , coffee grinder and the lettering "Grote" on a coffee pot
Around 1900: View through Breite Strasse to the “Alte Kanzlei” stepped gable house with the “Ernst Grote” logo;
Postcard 905 , anonymous photographer, collotype
Wrought iron lettering "Ernst Grote" above the - listed - entrance to the Grotehaus with the merchant figures created in 1949 by Ludwig Vierthaler after Berthold Stölzer

The near present-day Stolzenau at the beginning of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover -born Ernst Grote was the son of working in Leese grocer . After attending school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hanover, where he also graduated from the local business school . As a result, he joined the business run by his father, which he took over in 1871, the year the empire was founded.

In 1874 Grote's daughter Anna (1874–1926) was born, who later (1899) married the coffee merchant and industrialist Ludwig Roselius .

In the meantime, Grote had already sold the Leeser shop in 1878 and instead acquired a grocery store in Hanover, located on Breite Strasse at the corner of Osterstrasse, in the building of the former Old Chancellery . Grote quickly expanded this new company "into a major food wholesaler in Northern Germany ". In a comparison of the address books of the city of Hanover , Grote can be identified in 1889 as one of the first grocers to also operate a coffee roastery. Soon Grote made the trade in coffee the main focus of his company. The company headquarters in the old chancellery became the trademark of Ernst Grote Kaffee in the form of a Gothic stepped gable house .

After the First World War and in the year before the peak of German hyperinflation at the beginning of the Weimar Republic, Ernst Grote converted his coffee company into a stock corporation .

Ernst-Grote-Strasse

In the industrial park of Altwarmbüchen , Ernst-Grote-Straße was named after the entrepreneur.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ernst Grote  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Grote, Ernst in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 24, 2006, last accessed on January 11, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Grote, (1) Ernst , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 137
  3. ^ Herbert Black Forest :  Roselius, Gerhard Ludwig Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 47 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Kaffeeröstereien , in ders .: Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 222f .; here: p. 223
  5. ↑ Robert Schwandl : Hannover-rail album (= The Hanover light rail network ) (= transport in Germany , Volume 5), 1st edition, Berlin: Schwandl, 2005, ISBN 978-3-936573-10-7 , S. 23, 142; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and coffee roaster
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Leese
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1927
Place of death Hanover