Edgar Daniel Ross

Edgar Daniel Roß , or Ross (born February 11, 1807 in London , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , † March 23, 1885 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and politician .

Life and work

Edgar Daniel Roß comes from a British-German family. The grandfather, the doctor Colin Roß (1736–1793) moved from Scotland to Hamburg and became a respected citizen there through his work. In contrast, Edgar Roß's father, the merchant Daniel Roß (1776–1840), moved back to the British Isles in London. He built up a commercial business there, but later gave it up again because of his move to Germany. He settled with his family in Blankenese on the "Krähenberg" and built up the company and office "Roß, Vidal and Co" in Hamburg with relatives of his wife (a née Vidal) . Edgar Daniel Roß joined this business in 1823. The company was a co-founder of the Norddeutsche Bank and Edgar Daniel Roß sat there on the supervisory board from 1873 to 1881. In addition, "Roß, Vidal and Co" was known for overseas trade with Australia and its involvement within Hamburg. One year after the death of Edgar Daniel Roß, the business had to go into liquidation in 1886 .

Roß was also a co-founder of the German Transatlantic Steamship Company (Adler-Linie) in 1872 and was chairman of the board of directors. The company was quickly defeated by the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft and had to be dissolved as early as 1875.

In 1836, as the founder of the first British rowing club in Hamburg, Roß had a decisive influence on the establishment of the first German rowing club ( Der Hamburger Ruder Club ) and the spread of rowing beyond Hamburg. In 1840 his son Daniel Roß was born.

politics

Edgar Daniel Roß showed his first political engagement in 1840. He was a member of the committee that campaigned for a rail link between Hamburg and Berlin. Two years later, he was one of the signatories of the » Supplik of Hamburg Citizens and Residents to the High Nobles and High Wise Senate« published on June 8th . This petition on the initiative of the Patriotic Society concerned reforms in the constitution and administration of the state of Hamburg.

From March 31 to April 3, 1848, Ross took part in the preliminary parliament in preparation for the Frankfurt National Assembly. Together with Johann Gustav Heckscher and Ernst Merck , he then represented Hamburg in the National Assembly. They prevailed against the candidates of the German Club , the lawyer Hermann Baumeister , the architect Franz Georg Stammann and the lawyer Gabriel Riesser .

In the National Assembly he was, together with Heckscher, a member of the naval committee, which was supposed to take care of coastal fortifications and the construction of an imperial fleet . As deputy chairman, he quickly took over the leadership of this body because chairman Karl Ludwig von Bruck was leaving for Vienna . Ross was soon disappointed in what he thought were all too theoretical negotiations and considerations and did not believe in their success. He resigned his mandate in September 1848. Gustav Godeffroy was elected as his successor .

At the end of June 1849 he took part in the Gotha post-parliament , an assembly of former liberal members of the National Assembly. Unlike the majority, he continued to advocate the Paulskirche constitution . He also did not expect miracles from the Epiphany and saw their ideas only as a diversionary maneuver towards the citizens.

After his time in the National Assembly, Edgar Daniel Roß took part in the negotiations on a Hamburg Constituent Assembly. He was also elected to this Constituent Assembly himself . One of his priorities there was the fight for free trade. He also became chairman of the "Association for Freedom of Commerce" in Hamburg. In this association his colleagues were among others August Sanders , Johann Refardt and Gustav Godeffroy . Ross was also represented on the board of the umbrella organization that was formed in Berlin. The goals of the association in Hamburg were, among other things, the abolition of customs and gate locks .

In 1853 Roß was a member of the newly founded " Council and Citizens' Deputation ". This advisory committee had the task of working out proposals on how to improve the Elbe fairway and the port facilities in Cuxhaven .

In 1859, among other things, at the insistence of Roß, an initiative arose that provided for a constitution that had long been promised and the citizenship associated with it. Together with Johann Carl Knauth , he was able to gather enough merchants and lawyers behind this demand, so that the council had to agree. In the same year he moved into the newly created Hamburg citizenship . He was elected to the parishes of St. Nikolai and St. Jacobi . He then took up the mandate for St. Jacobi. From 1862 he was elected to parliament through general elections. There, too, one of his priorities was free trade policy and the goals were almost identical to those of the “Association for Freedom of Trade”. He was consistently represented in the citizenry until 1874.

In addition to his mandate in Hamburg, Roß was also a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation between 1867 and 1870 . In addition to the two Emil von Melle and Gustav Reinhold Richter sent to Hamburg , Roß was also elected to the newly created parliament in general, secret and direct elections. He was also a member of the German Customs Parliament and, in 1871, briefly in the Reichstag of the German Empire . In the same year he resigned his mandate, Gustav Adolf Schön became his successor. In these national parliaments, too, trade and shipping were the focal points of his political work.

In addition to his political work in parliament, he was engaged in several deputations and honorary offices in Hamburg, he was a member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and served as its President in 1862.

literature

Dirk Brietzke : Ross, Edgar Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 94 f. ( Digitized version ).
Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862. Hamburg 1909, pp. 114-117.
Werner Johannsen: Who they were where they rest. A guide to notable graves at the Nienstedten cemetery. Heinevetter, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-929171-22-8 , there page 198
Helmut Steinsdorfer: Edgar Daniel Ross (1807–1885), a German-British liberal from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In: Communications from the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 11, Issue 8, 1987, from page 184

Web links

Edgar Daniel Ross (1862) hamburgerpersoenitäten.de
Literature by and about Edgar Daniel Ross in the campus catalog Hamburg
Flyer about the candidacy for the Frankfurt National Collection
Edgar Daniel Roß in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Ross, Edgar Daniel , deutsche-biographie.de (accessed on August 2, 2019)
↑ Blankenese was an independent municipality until 1927, was then attached to Altona and in 1937 united with Hamburg.
^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Sportgeschichte auf hamburg.de and Ernst Christian Schütt: Die Chronik Hamburgs. Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, p. 207.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hamburg.de

↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 , p. 83, Hamburg 1984

↑ See also August Sutor: The Supplik of June 8, 1842 and its meaning. Verlag Hoffman and Campe, Hamburg 1842.

^ Gabriel Riesser (1806–1863) then went to Frankfurt as a representative for the Duchy of Lauenburg and was later a member of the Hamburg citizenship (1859–1862). See also Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862. Hamburg 1909, entry on Riesser pp. 107–111.

↑ Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German “Cultural History” in the Light of the Fate of a Hamburg Bourgeois Family (1648–1948). Volume 2, Göttingen 1964, page 150

↑ August Sanders (1809–1881) was a companion of Roß for a long time. For example, he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship (1859 to 1865).

↑ The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Roß, Edgar Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman and politician (LRP), MdHB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	London , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1885
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Ross, Edgar Daniel , deutsche-biographie.de (accessed on August 2, 2019)

[2] Blankenese was an independent municipality until 1927, was then attached to Altona and in 1937 united with Hamburg.

[3] Page no longer available , search in web archives: Sportgeschichte auf hamburg.de and Ernst Christian Schütt: Die Chronik Hamburgs. Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, p. 207.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hamburg.de

[4] Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Representatives of the Hamburg economy: 1850–1950 , p. 83, Hamburg 1984

[5] See also August Sutor: The Supplik of June 8, 1842 and its meaning. Verlag Hoffman and Campe, Hamburg 1842.

[6] Gabriel Riesser (1806–1863) then went to Frankfurt as a representative for the Duchy of Lauenburg and was later a member of the Hamburg citizenship (1859–1862). See also Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862. Hamburg 1909, entry on Riesser pp. 107–111.

[7] Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German “Cultural History” in the Light of the Fate of a Hamburg Bourgeois Family (1648–1948). Volume 2, Göttingen 1964, page 150

[8] August Sanders (1809–1881) was a companion of Roß for a long time. For example, he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship (1859 to 1865).

[9] The President of our Chamber of Commerce from 1665 until today. Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 .