Alexander Groschke

Groschke studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In 1842, he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg.^[1] After his studies and judicial clerkship, he entered the Prussian civil service. In 1852, as a court assessor, he was appointed Landrat of the district of Frankenstein [de]. 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."^[2] Groschke held the office until his death in 1871.^[3]

In 1851, Groschke married the daughter of the railway and insurance entrepreneur Otto Crelinger [de] 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.^[4] After Groschke died heavily in debt,^[5] his widow had to earn her living in Berlin with an educational boarding school for superior daughters.

Several children were born of this marriage.^[6] 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.^[7]

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 Governmental District of Breslau [de] 9 (Frankenstein, Münsterberg) as a member of the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party in the Prussian House of Representatives.

• Karl von Holtei: Noch ein Jahr in Schlesien! Anhang zu den „Vierzig Jahren“. Bd. 1, Eduard Trewendt: Breslau 1864, pp. 117–120
• Bernhard Mann: Biographisches Handbuch für das Preußische Abgeordnetenhaus 1867–1918 (Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Band 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7, p. 156.
• Patrick Wagner [de]: Bauern, Junker und Beamte. Lokale Herrschaft und Partizipation im Ostelbien des 19. Jahrhunderts. Wallstein: Göttingen 2005, pp. 226 f.