Stephan von Groening

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Stephan von Gröning (born September 25, 1861 in Bremen , † May 7, 1944 in Potsdam ; full name: Johann Stephan von Gröning ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district president .

Life

He came from an imperial city - Bremen city ​​dynasty, which was first mentioned in Bremen around 1300 and was raised to the imperial nobility with Georg Gröning in 1795 . He was the second of three sons of the Bremen Senator Hermann von Gröning (1823–1898) and Dorothea (Doris) Lürman (1829–1885) from Bremen.

Gröning attended the Alte Gymnasium in Bremen, where he passed the Abitur in autumn 1880. He then studied law in Tübingen and Berlin. In Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Suevia in 1881 . He completed his studies with the graduation to the Dr. jur. from. 1884–1886 he was court trainee in Liebenburg and Hanover, 1886–1889 government trainee in Frankfurt / Oder, 1889–1897 government assessor in Sigmaringen and Berlin. From 1897 to 1908 he was District Administrator of the Wehlau district . He then went to Potsdam as a senior government councilor . From 1917 to 1919 he was the district president of the Stralsund district .

Sanditten Castle around 1860,
Alexander Duncker collection

Gröning married on September 19, 1899 on Gut Sanditten ( Wehlau district , East Prussia ) Margarete Countess von Schlieben (born September 5, 1870 in Götzendorf , Wehlau district; † November 6, 1954 in Potsdam), the daughter of George Graf von Schlieben , royal Prussian Castle Captain of Königsberg (East Prussia) and Fideikommissherr on Sanditten, and Marie von Ploetz . The couple had a daughter Annemarie, who later became a conventual of the Neuenwalde monastery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener corps lists 1910, 197 , 511.
  2. Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 . Volume 2: Members. Tübingen 1931, p. 110 (No. 348).