Friedrich Grub

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Karl Friedrich Grub around 1900

Karl Friedrich Grub (born May 19, 1833 in Illingen ; † December 29, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German farmer, entrepreneur and member of the German Reichstag . He was the founder of the urban milk cure institutes, which served the purpose of supplying larger cities with milk suitable for feeding babies and for sanitary purposes. He paved the way for similar institutions throughout Germany that imitated the business idea.

Career

Karl Friedrich Grub, nickname "Fritz", was born on May 19, 1833, the eighth of twelve children in Illingen (Württemberg) . He spent his childhood in his parents' post office and attended the village school there, then he attended the Latin school in Markgröningen and the secondary school in Stuttgart .

From spring 1851 to autumn 1852 he attended the Cantonal Agricultural School in Kreuzlingen in Switzerland and then an agricultural school in Nissenburg (Hungary) until September 1854. From October 1, 1856, Karl Friedrich studied at the Agricultural Academy in Hohenheim , which he left again without a degree in March 1857 to take a managerial position in Haldenwang near Günzburg on the estate of Freiherr von Freyberg.

In Günzburg he met his wife Berta Miller, a descendant of the noble family Speth-Schülzburg and von Eyb . They married on June 1, 1859. The couple had a total of 11 children together, but three of them died at infancy and one at the age of eight.

In 1862 Karl Friedrich leased an estate from Prince Wrede in Ellingen near Weißenburg in Middle Franconia , in 1869 he changed his profession and joined the management of a large Passau granite factory with financial participation. For this he moved his residence to Regensburg .

In 1875 he opened the milk spa in Stuttgart. In 1887 he becomes a member of the Reichstag and builds the milk spa in Berlin.

After the unexpected death of his wife in 1889, Friedrich Grub decided not to run for the Reichstag again. He sold the milk spa in Stuttgart and moved his center of life to Berlin in order to devote himself entirely to the local milk spa. Karl Friedrich Grub died on December 26th, 1908 at the age of 75 in Berlin. He is buried next to his wife in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

Milk spa in Stuttgart

The high child mortality rate at the time was attributed, among other things, to the poor milk quality. At that time the milk was brought in from the country, where the cows not only gave milk, but were also used in the fields. What was fed was what happened on the farms. The cows lived in narrow stalls, mostly with little daylight. According to these circumstances, the milk quality fluctuated greatly. Especially in summer, the milk often turned sour when it was transported to the city. Since the transport into the city was done by middlemen, the milk was often adulterated to increase profit.

Since three of Karl Friedrich's children had already died in infancy, he worked with doctors, veterinarians and medical officers to set up a milk spa in which he wanted to produce high-quality milk, especially for small children and the sick. To avoid the long transport routes, the institution and cowshed should be built in the city. The animals should have enough space there and be fed exclusively with dry fodder, mainly hay. The milk could only be obtained from the dairy cure institute without intermediaries.

In 1874, Grub put the plan into action and acquired a multi-storey building in Rotebühlstrasse. 59 in Stuttgart. In 1875 he began to renovate the building. In 1876 the dairy spa was opened. After initial difficulties, the company flourished, and in 1881 the number of livestock was doubled to meet demand.

Political career

Stuttgart

Karl Friedrich Grub was a member of the German Party and from 1882 onwards for several years chairman of the Stuttgart branch. From 1877 to 1879 he was elected by the citizens in the citizens' committee of the city, from 1881 to 1887 in the municipal council of Stuttgart.

Reichstag in Berlin

From 1887 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Württemberg 10 ( Gmünd , Göppingen , Welzheim , Schorndorf ), where he joined the National Liberal Party .

In the Reichstag he continues to deal with agricultural issues, a total of four speeches have been recorded. It was about artificial butter or substitutes for butter, tariffs for grain, a ban on the import of pigs and the entitlement of secondary schools to study medicine. The sentence passed down from Grub: “Agriculture and industry are like Siamese twins; if one suffers, the other suffers too. "

Milk cure facility at Viktoriapark in Berlin

Milk cure institute in Berlin , branch on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse; Advertisement in the Berlin address book 1890

In addition to his work as a member of the Reichstag in Berlin, with the support of the city administration and the Reichstag member Rudolf Virchow, he started building a milk spa in Kreuzbergstrasse in 1887. 27/28. The new dairy cure facility was three times the size of the one in Stuttgart and included a stable building for 250 cows and around 20 horses. In the beginning the company found it difficult to gain a foothold, but later also became a success. Friedrich Grub founded various branch offices and ran the company for almost 20 years until his death.

The building on Kreuzbergstrasse is still preserved today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grub, Volker .: The Thurn and Taxis Post Office in Knittlingen and Illingen . Verl. Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-653-5 .
  2. ↑ a b c Grub, Volker, 1937-, Grub, Heiner, 1934-: Chronicle of the Grub family . [Scheufele], Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923107-15-3 , pp. 207 ff .
  3. ↑ Dr. Burkart: The Stuttgart milk cure facility . In: German quarterly journal for health care . tape 8 . Braunschweig 1876, p. 673 ff .
  4. ↑ F. Grub: Report of the Stuttgart milk cure institute on its creation and operation submitted after the seventh year of operation . Hofbuchdruckerei zu Guttenberg. Carl Grüninger 1882.
  5. ^ F. Grub: Annual report of the Stuttgart milk cure institution . Ed .: Hofdruckerei zu Guttenberg, formerly Grüninger. May 1878.
  6. ^ F. Grub: Report on the Stuttgart milk cure institute . Book printing of the "Neue Tagblatt", Stuttgart 1880.
  7. ↑ a b Swabian Merkur No. 602 of December 28, 1908
  8. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 242.
  9. ^ Memorandum for the 10th anniversary of the Milchkuranstalt Berlin, October 1898
personal data
SURNAME Grub, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician (DP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Illingen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1908
Place of death Berlin