Gustav Robert Gross

Gustav Robert Groß (born December 18, 1823 in Warnsdorf , † December 24, 1890 in Korneuburg ) was an Austrian politician and industrialist.

Life

Gustav Robert Groß was born on December 18, 1823 in Warnsdorf / Bohemia. He studied at the philosophical faculties of the universities of Vienna and Prague and graduated with doctorate to Dr. phil. from.

After the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he was put up for a mandate as a member of the German National Assembly in Frankfurt am Main and was also elected for the constituency of Bunzlau / Böhmen in Niemes. Since the election was accepted, he was a member from June 6, 1848. He joined the Württemberger Hof parliamentary group , which advocated a parliamentary monarchy and greater German borders (Germany including Austria). On May 30, 1849, he resigned from his seat. He returned to Austria in 1851 and took a position as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in Reichenberg . His duties in this position included transport, which he devoted his entire life to promoting. He sustainably and successfully supported the construction of the North German-South German Railway in order to connect Bohemia to the transport network between the North German (Prussia, Saxony) area with Austria. In 1856 he became general secretary and in 1861 director of this company (connecting railway). Also generally he was responsible for the expansion of the rail network in the Austrian lands: He ran the founding of the company Austrian North-Western Railway in 1868, became its Director General and made this company very quickly and sustainably economically sound and profitable.

In addition, he continued to be politically active. He was temporarily a member of the Bohemian Parliament in Prague and the Austrian House of Representatives of the Imperial Council in Vienna. In terms of association policy, he was chairman of the Society of Austrian Economists and in the arbitration court of the German School Association from 1874 .

His son was the Austrian, Greater German-minded politician and economist Gustav Gross . He died on December 24, 1890 in Korneuburg in Lower Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gross, Gustav Robert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 73 f. (Direct links on p. 73 , p. 74 ).
2. ↑ Gross, Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 73.