Friedrich Adolf Alexander Groschke (23 March 1821 – 27 January 1871) was a German civil servant and parliamentarian.
Life Groschke studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In 1842, he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg.Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 120, 222 After his studies and judicial clerkship, he entered the Prussian civil service. In 1852, as a court assessor, he was appointed Landrat of the . In January 1861 he received Karl von Holtei there, who had travelled to give a lecture engagement and wrote of Groschke: "It is impossible to be more obliging and gracious towards a travelling old singer."Karl von Holtei: Noch ein Jahr in Schlesien! Appendix to the "Forty Years". Vol. 1, Eduard Trewendt: Breslau 1864, (restricted preview in Google Books Search). Groschke held the office until his death in 1871.Landkreis Frankenstein i. Schles. Administrative history and Landrat list on the territorial.de website (Rolf Jehke)
In 1851, Groschke married the daughter of the railway and insurance entrepreneur and the actress Auguste Stich-Crelinger, Johanne Henriette Emilie Auguste Crelinger (1828–1900). Holtei's memoirs speak of her as a "clever, beautiful, lovable woman" whom the author had already known during his time in Berlin as a child.Karl von Holtei: Noch ein Jahr in Schlesien! Appendix to the "Forty Years". Vol. 1, Eduard Trewendt: Breslau 1864, . After Groschke died heavily in debt,cf. Patrick Wagner: Bauern, Junker und Beamte. Local Rule and Participation in 19th Century Eastern Albania. Wallstein: Göttingen 2005, (restricted preview in Google Book Search). his widow had to earn her living in Berlin with an educational boarding school for superior daughters.
Several children were born of this marriage.Cf. Entbindungen. In Königlich-privilegirte Berlinische Zeitung von Staats- und gelehrten Sachen (Vossische) No. 7, 28 March 1854, 2d ed. (web resource). From the estate of the music educator Clara Groschke, a portrait Auguste Crelinger as Maid of Orleans (1818) by Friedrich Georg Weitsch was consigned to the Märkisches Museum in 1925, as well as a portrait of her great-grandfather Johann Jacob Crelinger, now lost.Vgl. den Eintrag in der Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (Numerized).
Groschke belonged to the Second Chamber of the Landtag of Prussia in the 3rd legislative period from 1852 to 1855 as a deputy for the constituency of Breslau 4. In the 10th and 11th legislative periods he sat from 1867 until his death in 1871 for the constituency 9 (Frankenstein, Münsterberg) as a member of the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party in the Prussian House of Representatives.
Further reading Karl von Holtei: Noch ein Jahr in Schlesien! Anhang zu den „Vierzig Jahren“. Bd. 1, Eduard Trewendt: Breslau 1864, Bernhard Mann: Biographisches Handbuch für das Preußische Abgeordnetenhaus 1867–1918 (Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Band 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, , . : Bauern, Junker und Beamte. Lokale Herrschaft und Partizipation im Ostelbien des 19. Jahrhunderts. Wallstein: Göttingen 2005, pp. 226 f.
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