August Roese

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August Julius Roese (born April 16, 1807 in Eisenach ; † October 7, 1891 ibid) was a German local politician and the first mayor of the city of Eisenach.

Life

Roese came from an upper-class Eisenach family. His father Christian Roese was a councilor. His mother Ernestine Friedericke was the daughter of the Gotha publisher Justus Perthes . Roese received a comprehensive school education in Eisenach and Gotha, in 1826 he passed his Abitur at the Eisenacher Gymnasium . He then studied law at the University of Jena . In 1826 he became a member, later an honorary member, of Corps Saxonia Jena . In 1839 he married Ernestine Stollberg, with whom he had seven children.

Act

After completing his studies, he initially held various positions in the administration of the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . From October 1830 he was town clerk in Eisenach and played a key role in the reorganization of the Eisenach town archive. In Weimar he found access to the grand ducal state administration. Roese used a position offered to him there in 1838 in the Grand Ducal Provincial Directorate to familiarize himself with the operational processes and hierarchies in the regional authority. This knowledge benefited him as the future mayor of the second royal seat of Eisenach.

After his return from Weimar on January 26, 1847, August Roese was appointed mayor of the city of Eisenach for life and was solemnly inaugurated on January 28, 1847. In the course of the March Revolution in 1848 , Roese managed to keep the city calm by setting up a civil guard. Favored by the age of industrialization, he implemented a number of infrastructural measures. So he arranged for the construction of a gas works so that the streets of the city could be illuminated, and had water pipes and a new underground sewer system built. The enlargement of the urban area through the incorporation of smaller suburbs was a necessary measure in order to prepare the economic development of the city. In 1850 Roese had the suburb Ehrensteig and the Eisenacher Wildbann forest area south of the city incorporated. During his tenure, the population of the city of Eisenach rose from around 9,000 to around 20,000.

On September 30th, 1884 Roese resigned from his office as mayor, on October 1st, 1884 he was granted honorary citizenship. With a term of office of 37 years he is the mayor of Eisenach with the longest term of office to date .

Roese died on October 7th, 1891. An obituary paid tribute to him with the words: "... he was a citizen highly valued by everyone, loved and respected by his fellow citizens, a man without any enemy".

swell

  • Urania cultural and educational association Gotha eV (Ed.): Eisenacher personalities. A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 116 .
  • Karl-Heinz Dietze: Nobody any longer. Important Eisenachers: August Roese. In the Thuringian national newspaper . February 29, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 127/183
  2. ↑ a b c d Klaudius Kabus: August Julius Roese. Mayor for life . In: MFB Eisenacher-Verlagsgesellschaft (Hrsg.): StadtZeit . February issue. Eisenach 1997, p. 43-46 .
  3. ^ History of the Eisenach City Archives. (No longer available online.) Website of the city of Eisenach, archived from the original on July 18, 2010 ; Retrieved February 5, 2009 .
  4. ^ History of the city of Eisenach (19th century). eisenachonline.de, accessed on February 5, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Roese, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roese, August Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1891
Place of death Eisenach