Gerhard Struve

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Gerhard Struve (born September 3, 1835 in Ummendorf ; † July 6, 1904 in Berlin ) was a domain tenant , sugar manufacturer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Grave sculpture created in 1905 by Ida Schaer-Krause (1877–1957) sculptor for the grave of Gerhard Struve (1835–1904), in the Old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin, (Matthäifriedhof). The architect was Heinrich Schmieden, a government builder
1905, grave sculpture by Ida Schaer-Krause

Struve attended grammar school and later the University of Bonn and the Poppelsdorf Academy . Until 1872 he was a domain tenant and sugar manufacturer in the province of Poznan . He served in the war of 1870/71 .

Struve was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency Magdeburg Region 8 ( Halberstadt - Wernigerode - Oschersleben ) from 1866 to 1876. After he had rejected a new election for personal reasons, he was from 1879 to 1882 from his home county Neuhaldensleben - Wolmirstedt again in the Chamber of Deputies -House chosen. He was also a city councilor in Berlin and was committed to socially vulnerable young people and children. The Struveshof is named after him.

From 1877 to 1887 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Frankfurt an der Oder 4 ( Lebus ) and the National Liberal Party .

Gerhard Struve's grave of honor

Struve was honored in 1903 as the city ​​elder of Berlin and later with the grave of honor of the city of Berlin in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery . His tombstone was apparently re-inscribed and incorrectly after the Second World War .

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 9, 1904, Reimer, Berlin
  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917.
  • Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register 1904, registry office Berlin III, P Rep 804 0204, Landesarchiv Berlin
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , pp. 379-380.
personal data
SURNAME Struve, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German domain leaseholder, sugar manufacturer and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Ummendorf
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1904
Place of death Berlin