Hermann Grothe (engineer)

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Hermann Grothe (born March 30, 1839 in Salzwedel , † March 16, 1885 in Berlin ) was an engineer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

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Grothe attended grammar school, the provincial trade school and the trade institute. He traveled extensively in Europe and the United States of America. He was an engineer for factory buildings, lecturer in mechanical technology (1868–1873) and the Royal Trade Academy in Berlin . He was also exhibition commissioner and reporter and editor of the Polytechnische Zeitung. He wrote the following writings: technology of staple fibers ; The economic situation of the textile industry ; Philipp von Girard - inventor of the mechanical flax spinning ; Germany participated in the Paris exhibition in 1878 and Leonardo da Vinci as an engineer and philosopher .

From 1877 to 1878 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Liegnitz 9 ( Lauban , Görlitz ) and the National Liberal Party .

literature

  • Johann Christian Poggendorff (founder); BW Feddersen and AJ von Oettingen (eds.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Volume III: 1858-1883. Part 2, Barth, Leipzig 1898
  • 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
  • Bernd Haunfelder : The Liberal Members of the German Reichstag 1871-1918. A biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06614-9 , p. 166.

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personal data
SURNAME Grothe, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1885
Place of death Berlin