Robert Graßmann

Robert Graßmann (born March 8, 1815 in Stettin , † August 14, 1901 in Stettin; full name Siegfried Robert Ludolf Graßmann ) was a German publisher and writer .

Life

Graßmann was born in Stettin , where his father, the mathematician Justus Günther Graßmann , was a high school teacher at the United Royal and City High School . He attended the United Royal and City High School and then studied at the University of Bonn and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . He entered the school service in his hometown of Stettin, first from 1841 as a teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Schule, then from 1843 as a senior teacher at the secondary girls' school.

In the course of the events of 1848/1849 Graßmann turned to political journalism. Together with his brother Hermann Graßmann , he founded the conservative Norddeutsche Zeitung in 1848 as a daily newspaper. Robert Graßmann gave up his teaching profession and devoted himself to expanding the publishing and printing business, while Hermann Graßmann soon withdrew.

In 1853 there was an accident in Graßmann's print shop in which several people were killed. He sold the Norddeutsche Zeitung, which later went down in November 1859, and went to Berlin for a few years , but then came back to Stettin. In 1865 he founded the Stettiner Anzeiger , renamed the Pommersche Zeitung in 1866 , also the Stettiner Zeitung in 1865 and the Stettiner Tageblatt in 1877 ; all three newspapers appeared until 1910. In 1871 his son Gustav Graßmann (* 1846; † 1930) joined the publishing house and took it over after the death of his father.

In Stettin, Graßmann was active as a city councilor from 1872 to 1890 . In the Reichstag election in 1878 he successfully supported the national liberal candidate Albert Schlutow , who was also re-elected in 1881. Graßmann fought against the liberal as well as against the social democracy . In 1887 he welcomed the expulsion of Fritz Herbert , the person in charge of the social democratic Stettiner Volksbote , from Stettin.

Graßmann was a versatile writer. Among other things, he published works on mathematics, a philosophical system in ten volumes and pamphlets against the Roman Catholic Church.

Fonts (selection)

Atomism . 1862.
Form theory of mathematics . 1872.
The building of knowledge . 10 volumes. 1882-1900.
The Christians and the Antichrists in the Christian Church, especially in the Roman Catholic Church . 1900.

literature

Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 197-198.

Web links

Literature by and about Robert Graßmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b Manfred Höft: Stettiner personalities in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: The Pommersche Zeitung . No. 30/2012, p. 4.
↑ Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, Pyritz 1936, p. 79.
↑ Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, Pyritz 1936, pp. 84–85.

personal data
SURNAME	Graßmann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Graßmann, Siegfried Robert Ludolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1901
Place of death	Szczecin

[PZ-1] Manfred Höft: Stettiner personalities in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: The Pommersche Zeitung . No. 30/2012, p. 4.

[2] Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, Pyritz 1936, p. 79.

[3] Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, Pyritz 1936, pp. 84–85.