Hermann Gross (civil servant)

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" Economics Council Gross";
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Hermann Gross (also: Hermann Gross ; * February 18, 1875 in Diez ; † 1929 or later) was a German civil servant , economist and president of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Hanover .

Life

Hermann Gross came maternal an old Frankish farmers - Gender and was during the early days of the German Empire in the Diez Lahn born. After many years of farming practice and studying agriculture , he devoted himself from the beginning to agricultural administration, worked for several years as a volunteer and as an assistant and then followed an appointment to East Friesland in the city of Norden , where he - still a young man - took the post took over as general secretary of the local main agricultural association. He quickly found himself in the "[...] economically not easy situation" of the country, which was then described as " peculiar " and, after organizational success, was awarded the title of Royal Economic Council.

From the north, Gross worked incessantly in East Frisian animal breeding , especially in the "[...] in the Association of East Frisian Regular Cattle Breeders , the breeding of black and white lowland cattle", which was leading in Germany in the 1920s.

Hermann Gross left East Frisia for Hanover in 1924 due to his appointment as director of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Hanover as the successor to Peter Johannssen . But in 1926 the estates of the Principality of East Friesland honored him with the award of "East Frisian Indigenous Rights ".

On August 1, 1927, the highest civil servant in Hanoverian agriculture, whose character traits were outlined with "[...] a sense of duty and indefatigability, indefatigability and tenacious labor", celebrated his 25th anniversary in the service.

Fonts

  • Hermann Groß: Das Ostfriesische Rind (= monographs of agricultural livestock , edited by the editorial team and the publishing house of German agricultural animal breeding , vol. 5), in Gothic script with numerous illustrations and 8 plates, Hanover: Schaper, 1904
    • also Leipzig: Schmidt, 1905

literature

  • NN : Ökonomierat Gross , in: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without year: 1929] (without page number )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f N.N .: Ökononmierat Gross , in: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without Year: 1929] (without page number)
  2. ^ Groß, Hermann in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on October 25, 2016
  3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Otto Heinrich May, Edgar Kalthoff (ed.): Peter Johannssen , in this .: Lower Saxony Life Pictures (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 22), ed. on behalf of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (VHKNB), Vol. 7, Hildesheim: Lax Verlag, 1971, p. 116f .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Great, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, economist and president of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Diez on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH after 1929