Karl Groß (shipowner)
Karl Diedrich Adolf Groß (born April 25, 1833 in Brake ; † January 4, 1905 there ) was a German entrepreneur and shipowner . As a politician, he was President of the Oldenburg State Parliament from 1896 to 1905 .
biography
Groß was the son of the Braker merchant and innkeeper Gerhard Groß (1789–1881) and his wife Lucia Cornelie Christine nee. Torture (1793-1859). He was first educated by private tutors and then attended grammar school and the upper class of the higher middle school in Oldenburg . In 1849 he became a seaman in the German imperial fleet, which was under the command of his later brother-in-law Karl Rudolf Brommy . After its dissolution, he switched to the merchant navy in 1852 and drove as a seaman and finally as chief helmsman, mainly on the America and Australia routes . In 1857 he returned to Brake and joined the administration of the shipyard founded by his father in Hammelwarden near Brake. In 1865 he took over the business, but gave it up again in 1871, as the conversion to iron shipbuilding destroyed the wooden shipyards on the Weser . After a transitional period as a partner in a Braker forwarding company , he founded his own forwarding company and shipping company in 1876 , which grew rapidly and, together with the Johannes Müller company, achieved a monopoly position in the port of Brake.
Groß was also involved in economic self-government organizations as well as in local and state politics. From 1873 until his death he was 1st chairman of the Braker Handelsverein and 2nd chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Oldenburg, which was founded in 1900 . He was a long-time member and temporarily chairman of the city council of Brake and also a member of the local council. From 1881 to 1883 and from 1887 to 1905 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament, and since 1896 its president.
Groß also served as the Belgian consul and the British vice-consul.
family
On May 20, 1862, Groß Amalie (Emma) married Friederike Sophie geb. Bartels (1839-1916). The couple had five children, of whom Ida (1868-1889) married Albert Erk (1860-1934), who later became President of the Oldenburg Regional Court.
publication
- Diary of the sailor Diedrich Adolph Karl Groß 1851-1855 . Oldenburg. 1960.
literature
- Heinrich Groß: History of the Groß family zu Brake i. Oldbg. Stalling, Oldenburg 1921.
- Karl Diedrich Adolf Gross. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 254-255 ( online ).
- Detlev G. Gross : "On the Weser, Unterweser ...", memories of a long-established family , Brake 2016.
Ludwig Völckers (1848–1849) | Lambert Pancratz (1849) | Arnold Kitz (1849-1851) | Carl Zedelius (1851-1856) | Johann Finckh (1857) | August Niebour (1857–1861) | Carl Julius Dannenberg (1861–1863) | Heinrich Becker (1863–1866) | Julius Dannenberg (1866) | Werner August Friedrich Lentz (1866–1869) | August Hullmann (1869–1872) | Friedrich Graepel (1872–1876) | Gerhard Ahlhorn (1876–1878) | Ludwig Strackerjan (1878–1881) | Diedrich Roggemann (1881–1896) | Karl Groß (1896–1905) | Wilhelm Schröder (1905–1919) | Ernst Tantzen (1919–1920) | Wilhelm Schröder (1920–1925) | Paul Hug (1925) | Wilhelm Schröder (1925–1928) | Emil Zimmermann (1928–1931) | Heinrich Eichler (1931–1932) | Georg Joel (1932–1933) | Johann Behlen (1933–1934)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Groß, Karl Diedrich Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipowner and President of the Oldenburg state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brake |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1905 |
| Place of death | Brake |