Gustav Rassow

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Gustav Rassow (* 1855 ; † 1944 ) was a businessman, Bremen politician (non-party) and senator .

biography

Rassow was a businessman and as such was elected as a representative of the 2nd class in the Bremen 8th class electoral law in the Bremen citizenship . Before and immediately after 1900, only the representatives of the 1st and 2nd class - i.e. academics or business people - could prevail in the elections of senators in the citizenship in Bremen determined by the class suffrage . Also in 1907 the merchant Rassow was elected with a narrow majority against Heinrich Bömers in a remarkable voting against Heinrich Bömers . From 1907 to 1918 he was in the Bremen Senate .

After the First World War , the non-party Rassow was again from 1920 to 1925 senator in a bourgeois senate under the leadership of the non-party Martin Donandt .

He was married to Christiane Rassow (1862–1906), daughter of Bremen's mayor Friedrich Ludolf Grave , a woman connected to the art scene. In 1911 he donated several works of art by the animal sculptor Willy Zügel (rhinoceros, polar bear) to the Kunsthalle Bremen .

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