Karl Friedrich Gerhard Gruner

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Karl Friedrich Gerhard Gruner (born March 10, 1768 in Halle , † January 9, 1837 in Leipzig ) was a German businessman and politician.

Life

Karl Friedrich Gerhard Gruner was born as the son of theologian Johann Friedrich Gruner and his second wife Christiane Sophie (* 1738; † 1786), daughter of Johann Georg Francke (1697–1755), Dr. jur., Assessor of the Schöppenstuhl and Oberbornmeister in Halle, born. His siblings from this marriage included:

  • Ferdinand Gruner (1769–1852), wholesale merchant and banker in Leipzig, founder of the Gruner family in Leipzig;
  • Wilhelm Gruner (1771–1849), court pharmacist , chief miner and medical advisor in Hanover .

He received his first lessons from private teachers and then attended the educational institute founded by Professor Johann Salomo Semler and later taken over by Professor Ernst Christian Trapp .

After his father died in 1778, he decided to start a commercial apprenticeship and received it in Leipzig from Jacques Marc Antoine Dufour-Féronce (1737-1806), who ran a silk wholesaler. In 1795 Karl Friedrich Gerhard Gruner was granted citizenship in Leipzig and then opened the Sommer und Gruner trading house with a friend; after his friend passed away, his name was changed to Karl Gruner.

In 1798 he joined the alms office as a deputy and in 1803 took over the office of cashier at the newly established poor institution.

In 1803 he became a member of the Leipzig council and in 1807 he was elected city ​​governor , in the same year he was also elected second deputy to the revenue room and took over the head of the workhouse for volunteers. From 1813 he was the builder of the Leipzig council and first deputy to the revenue room. Since June 23, 1821 he was a member of the Gewandhaus concert management. On November 27, 1827 he was given the character of a chamber councilor .

In 1830 he resigned from the city council and was then elected as a member of the Commissioner for Action. In 1833 he was elected by the voters of the city of Leipzig as a deputy for the Saxon state parliament, but then asked for health reasons to be dismissed from this office; this request was granted by the Ministry of the Interior.

Honors

Karl Friedrich Gerhard Gruner received the Order of St. Vladimir .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 15, 1837, Part 1, pp. 66–67 . BF Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed January 17, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Leipzig biography. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung No. 283 v. November 30, 1827 . 1827 ( google.de [accessed June 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, Karl Friedrich Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruner, Karl; Gruner, Carl; Gruner, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1837
Place of death Leipzig