Karl Groddeck

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Karl August Groddeck (born April 13, 1794 in Danzig ; † January 17, 1877 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and notary. He was Lord Mayor of Gdansk from 1851 to 1862.

Life

origin

Groddeck came from an old Danzig council family. His parents were the lawyer and Justice Commissioner Jacob Balthasar Groddeck (1760-1822) and his wife Johanna Charlotte Renner (1771-1848).

Career

Groddeck studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1816 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen together with his cousin, who later became Gdansk Mayor Samuel Friedrich Schumann . In 1821 he was admitted as a notary in Gdansk. From 1825 to 1851 he was a member of the city council. In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was also elected a member of the Prussian National Assembly. In 1850 he belonged to the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From 1849 until his resignation on February 12, 1851, he sat for the constituency of Danzig 2 in the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the right-wing faction .

In his function as Gdansk Lord Mayor, Groddeck was also a member of the Prussian manor house from 1854 to 1863 . The industrialization of the city fell during his tenure. In 1852 the railway came to Gdansk and in December 1853 street lighting was started using gas lamps. The introduction of street names and house numbers was administratively important, along with the professional fire brigade and the telegraph office. The Prussian Navy began to be built up at the Royal Shipyard in Danzig . Most recently he was Director of the Admiralty in Danzig.

family

Groddeck was married to Henriette Hecker (* 1802) for the first time. In 1863 he married Elisabeth Peters (* 1834) and moved to Berlin.

His son Karl Theodor Groddeck (1826–1885) earned services as a doctor in the fight against cholera in Marienburg and then in the expansion of Kösen as a spa. He was with Caroline, geb. Koberstein (1825–1892), a daughter of the German specialist August Koberstein , married. Their son Georg Groddeck founded and ran the Marienhöhe sanatorium in Baden-Baden .

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 113.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Hansen : Rheinische Briefe und Akten zur Geschichte der Politische Movement, 1830-1850 , Droste, 1998, p. 289 ( online at Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 87 , 72; Hans Peter Hümmer , Michaela Neubert : Searching for traces of the Jena and Göttingen Vandalia in the register (1812–1816) Adolph Goetze from Neustrelitz, in: Einst und Jetzt Volume 60 (2015), p. 67 ff. (P. 95); Franz Stadtmüller : Supplements to the corps inventory of Vandalia Göttingen [1815-1818] in: Einst und Jetzt Volume 12 (1967), pp. 92–95 (p. 93 No. 87)
  3. ↑ Gerhard Danzer: The wild analyst. Georg Groddeck and the discovery of psychosomatics . Kösel, Munich 1992, p. 17f.
  4. ↑ Peter von Groddeck: Family book of the Groddeck family. Family Association Groddeck, accessed on July 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Groddeck, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groddeck, Karl August; Groddeck, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician and Lord Mayor of Danzig (1851–1862)
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1877
Place of death Berlin