Gustav Ritter (manufacturer)

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Gustav Ritter with his 2nd wife Käthi Ritter, geb. Riggers (1886-1967)

Gustav Ritter , pseudonym: Gottlieb Bottermelk (* August 22, 1867 in Grabow ; † May 15, 1945 there ; full name: Georg Gustav Friedrich Ritter , to distinguish also with the following place of residence: Gustav Ritter-Grabow ) was a German manufacturer and writer .

Life

Gustav Ritter as the shooter king, 1926
Plaque in Memoriam Gustav Ritter-Grabow

Gustav Ritter grew up with numerous older siblings in Grabow as the son of the timber merchant Wilhelm Ritter (* 1824). He too learned the trade. In 1902, Ritter took over from his father-in-law Friedrich Bollhagen the pepper nut factory , which was well-known far beyond Grabow and Mecklenburg, and which had been founded in 1835. For more than 40 years, Ritter was head of the Bollhagen pepper nut and biscuit factory , which continued to expand under his leadership.

As an author, he also published mainly Low German poems and short stories. Some of his books were self-published, some by well-known publishers such as Hinstorff . A number of his works have been published in the Mecklenburg monthly magazines. In his works there are also often nationalist , anti-Semitic and Nazi- glorifying tendencies.

Ritter passed away in early May 1945 after the Red Army marched in .

After the Second World War, VEB Grabower Dauerbackwaren emerged from the Pfeffernussfabrik . Today the company is known as Grabower Süsswaren GmbH primarily for the Grabower Foam Kisses . The former residential and factory building in downtown Grabow now houses the Grabow local history museum and is a listed building.

Works

  • Strong Toback (19XX)
  • Joke and Seriousness (1916)
  • Kinnernack (1917)
  • From a hot heart (1917)
  • The Legacy of the Great Elector (1917)
  • Cattle fish considerations (1919)
  • Wat in mi klüng ( ca.1927 )
  • On Siegfried Wagner's grave (approx. 1937)
  • From me to you (1941)

literature

  • Christian Madaus: local poet and purveyor to the court Gustav Ritter . In: Grabow. Past and present . Stock & Stein, 1999. pp. 91-100.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For Gustav Ritter's death date there are several varying details (May 4, 1945, May 5, 1945); the information here follows the data in the biography of Gustav Ritter von Uwe Sonnemann (PDF; 16.3 MB), p. 48 (accessed on October 13, 2011) with a picture of the tombstone
  2. ↑ www.grabow-erinnerungen.de
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Georg Gustav Friedrich (full name); Bottermelk, Gottlieb (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabow
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1945
Place of death Grabow