Rodolfo Groth

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Rodolfo Groth (born January 2, 1881 in Lübeck , † February 7, 1985 there , born Rudolf Johann Wilhelm Lorenz Groth ) was a German merchant and patron who temporarily lived in Mexico.

Grave with memorial stone of Rodolfo Groth in the forest kindergarten Lübeck

Life

Groth was born as the first of six children to the headmaster of the St. Jürgen Knabenschule (later Kalandschule) Rudolph Groth. Because his father died prematurely of a typhus epidemic , Rudolf Groth had to leave the Katharineum in Lübeck early. His mother could not afford the school fees. After graduating from school with secondary school leaving certificate, he began an apprenticeship as a businessman and emigrated to Mexico in July 1900 at the age of 19. There he made a fortune as the owner of a trading post. He changed his first name to Rodolfo because of his Mexican nationality. He used his fortune extensively for charitable purposes in Lübeck. So he donated 105 beds for the holiday colony of the non-profit society on the Priwall , founded the Rudolf Groth Foundation in 1923 and donated a nursing home in Braunstraße . He considered the Gate of Hope to be his life's work , a block of flats with 48 apartments on the east bank of the Wakenitz , which was inaugurated in 1936/37 and in which he last had an apartment himself. He also financed a replica of the sculpture "Mädchengruppe" by the Swiss artist Karl Geiser . It was originally intended to replace the neo-Gothic fountain that was demolished in Lübeck Market in 1934, but was set up on the edge of the Burgfeld .

Rudolf Groth was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and honorary citizenship of the city of Lübeck in 1982 .

After his death at the age of 104, his ashes were buried under a memorial stone in the forest kindergarten he founded on Travemünder Allee .

literature

  • Peter Guttkuhn: honorary citizen Rodolfo Groth . In: Father-city sheets . Volume 34, Lübeck 1983, p. 3.
  • Konrad Fuchs: Rudolf Groth - a citizen of Lübeck . In: Communications from the Geographical Society of Lübeck . No. 56, 1985, pp. 125-130

swell

  1. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeck Lexikon , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild Lübeck, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Groth, Rodolfo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groth, Rudolf Johann Wilhelm Lorenz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, patron in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1985
Place of death Lübeck