Karl Grüßer

Karl Grüßer , spelling of the family name partly also Grüsser , (born January 17, 1880 in Duben ; † April 30, 1945 ) was a German baker and confectioner .

Life

Grüßer grew up in his birthplace in Lower Lusatia and learned the bakery trade there. In 1907 he moved to Berlin and ran his own bakery and confectionery there .

At the same time he was involved in the bakers' guild and became their Berlin chief master. In addition, he was President of the Central Association of German Bakers' Guilds "Germania". Before the Second World War, around 1,700 bakers' guilds in Germany with less than 100,000 members were represented in this organization. He was also President of the "Union Internationale des Maîtres Boulangers" (International Association of Master Bakers).

Grave of Karl Grüsser in Berlin-Westend

Karl Grüßer died in Europe on April 30, 1945, just a week before the end of World War II, at the age of 65. His grave is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend .

When the Berlin Bakers' Guild founded a technical school for the training of bakers and confectioners on October 1, 1951, it was named "Karl-Grüsser-Fachschule" in memory of Grüßer's achievements. The school remained independent until 2006, in the same year it was renamed “Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk Berlin-Brandenburg” and merged with all other bakery schools in Germany to form the “Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk” school association. The "Karl-Grüßer-Supporting Association" is still named after him. V. “, which as a non-profit organization supports members of the bakery trade in need financially.

Web links

• Academy of German Bakery Crafts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joseph Kugl, Robert Veeh: Commercial customer for bakers. A textbook . 1940, p. 236.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 474.
3. ↑ Announcement in the annual report of the bakery digitalisat (PDF; 3.0 MB)