Ludwig Gross

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Ludwig Gross

Ludwig Philipp Groß (born August 24, 1825 in Lachen , † February 5, 1894 in Lambsheim ) was a German doctor and mayor. He sat in the Reichstag (German Empire) .

Life

Groß was the son of the doctor Franz Groß (1786–1869) from Lachen and his wife Elisabeth born. Reudelhuber (1799–1887) from Lambsheim.

Grave in the Lambsheim cemetery

Groß passed his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Zweibrücken in 1845 and then studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . He became a member of the Corps Franconia Munich (1846) and the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg (1847). As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Universität Leipzig . In 1849 he took part in the Palatinate uprising as captain of a student legion ; after the suppression of the uprising he had to flee abroad. He used this to continue his studies in Strasbourg , Zurich and Prague . In 1851, Groß was pardoned, passed his medical exam and received his doctorate . After working as a sub-doctor in the military, he settled as a general practitioner in Lambsheim, where he also ran a farm. There Ludwig Groß was active in horse breeding, fruit growing and fruit processing.

After becoming a member of the municipal council, he was finally mayor of Lambsheim from 1870 to 1894 and a member of the Palatinate district administrator .

Groß was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies from 1863 to 1869 and 1873 to 1894 and from 1873 to 1894 for the Reichstag constituency Palatinate (Bavaria) 1 Speyer- Frankenthal . From 1874 to 1887 he was a member of the German Reichstag , where he represented the constituency Pfalz 1, Speyer and belonged first to the German Progressive Party , then to the Löwe-Berger group and later to the National Liberal Party .

The politician owned the baroque hunting lodge Lambsheim through his father-in-law Georg Reudelhuber and had it rebuilt in its present form in 1890.

literature

  • 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
  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of the Palatinate personalities. 2nd edition, Hennig, Edenkoben 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106 , 124; 64 , 461.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 194.
personal data
SURNAME Great, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groß, Ludwig Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, mayor and politician (DFP, NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Laugh
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1894
Place of death Lambsheim