Diedrich Gerhard Roggemann

Diedrich Gerhard Roggemann

Diedrich Gerhard Roggemann (born January 28, 1840 in Bad Zwischenahn ; † February 7, 1900 in Oldenburg ) was Lord Mayor of Oldenburg from 1890 to 1900 .

Life

Roggemann was the son of the Zwischenahn secondary school teacher Hermann Georg Roggemann (July 30, 1809 - February 14, 1876) and his wife Helene Margarethe Henriette nee. Deharde (September 17, 1803 - June 17, 1886). He attended grammar school in Jever and studied law in Göttingen from 1859 , where he was a member of the Hannovera fraternity that same year . Until 1862 he continued to study at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin . He graduated with a doctorate and became after the two legal state exam 1869 in Oldenburg as a lawyer admitted. In May 1879 he joined the judicial service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as a senior judge , the following year he became a public prosecutor at the Oldenburg regional court and in 1883 a regional judge .

Political activity

Roggemann took part in political life at an early age. In 1874 he became a member of the Oldenburg City Council and three years later its chairman. From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the National Liberal Party in the Reichstag and was part of the left wing of his party. After the split in the National Liberals , he resigned from the parliamentary group in April 1881 and joined the secessionists of the Liberal Association . From 1881 to 1900 he was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament and from 1881 to 1896 he was president of the state parliament. When he did not join the majority vote of no confidence in the government of State Minister Gerhard Friedrich Günther Jansen in 1896 , he was replaced by Karl Groß (1833-1905). On April 23, 1890, Roggemann was elected Lord Mayor of the city of Oldenburg and held this office until his death. During his ten-year term in office his influence remained limited, but at least he contributed to the improvement of the urban infrastructure in some essential areas. A municipal slaughterhouse was built, the port was expanded and a water pipe and sewer system were installed. On January 30, 1901, Roggemannstrasse in the Oldenburg Dobbenviertel was named after him in his honor.

family

Roggemann was born with Maria Agnes Bernadine. Pancratz (July 11, 1842 - March 24, 1923) married, the daughter of the Upper Government Council and member of Parliament Lambert Pancratz (March 4, 1800 - March 1, 1871).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 102.
2. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Federal newspaper of the Green Hanoverians to Göttingen. Volume 97, New Series, Göttingen, December 2007, No. 2, page 28.
3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 277.
4. ↑ The streets in Dobbenviertel - in: http://www.bi-dobben.de/ .
5. ↑ http://www.alt-oldenburg.de/stadtteile/dobbenviertel/index.html .

Web links

• Oldenburg's Lord Mayor
• Diedrich Gerhard Roggemann in the database of members of the Reichstag

literature

• Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 .