Alfred von Rosen

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Alfred von Rosen (1825–1912)

Alfred von Rosen (born April 30, 1825 in Segeberg ( Holstein ), † September 19, 1912 in Schleswig ) was a royal Danish official and later royal Prussian district president .

Origin and family

He came from the official and officer family Rose, first mentioned in Stralsund in 1622, and was the eldest son of the royal Danish bailiff and chamberlain Wilhelm von Rosen (1788-1853) and Sophie Decker (1799-1868). His two brothers were the royal Danish chief president and chamberlain Carl von Rosen (1819-1891) and the royal Danish staff officer in the army high command Sigismund von Rosen (1827-1864). Rosen married Karoline von Stampe , daughter of a Danish legation councilor, in Copenhagen in 1856 . The marriage resulted in six daughters.

In Danish service

In 1844 von Rosen passed the Abitur at the Plön School of Academics . He then studied law in Kiel . During the Schleswig-Holstein War in 1848 he fought as a volunteer against Denmark. In 1849, von Rosen was sworn in as an auscultator at the Holstein Higher Court. In 1852 he became a scientific assistant in the Danish Ministry for Holstein and Lauenburg . In 1854 he was made plenipotentiary there and in 1855 he was appointed Ministerial Secretary. Finally, in 1859, von Rosen became head of the department. In 1862 he became a councilor in the Holstein government in Plön. In 1864 he was dismissed from the Danish civil service with a pension entitlement after the German-Danish War .

In Prussian service

In 1866 he was appointed to the Prussian government council and was head of the section, settled below the senior president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1868 he moved to the government in Schleswig and was appointed senior councilor and department director there in 1878. In 1880 he became regional president in Arnsberg . In 1882 he temporarily represented the incapacitated Upper President of the Province of Westphalia, Friedrich von Kühlwetter . In connection with the great miners' strike of 1889 , at the request of Wilhelm II , it was decided during the meeting of the Privy Council on May 27, 1889 to dismiss von Rosen as President of the Government . There were also health reasons. During the meeting of the State Ministry on June 6, 1889, von Rosen was described as almost blind and hard of hearing and judged that he was no longer suitable for representing the state government. Thereupon he was dismissed from civil service and appointed to the real secret council and first class councilor. During his tenure in Arnsberg, von Rosen became a board member of the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and the Luther Society for Westphalia.

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Georg von Steinmann District President of the Arnsberg District
1880 - 1889 		Wilhelm Julius Reinhold winemaker
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish and Prussian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Segeberg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1912
Place of death Schleswig