Ernst Rohmer

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Ernst Rohmer (born December 29, 1818 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ; † August 23, 1897 in Nördlingen ) was the owner of the CH Beck'schen book printing and bookstore in Nördlingen and a publisher .

relationship

His father was pastor Johann David (1777–1828) from a family of farmers and craftsmen in Möhrendorf near Erlangen , whose parents were Andreas Romer (1732–77) and Barbara Kießling. His mother Sophie (1793-1850) was the daughter of Christian Gottfried Planck (* 1761), the manorial bailiff in Nennslingen , who was later a judge of appeal in Ellingen . His mother Sophie was therefore related to the Wuerttemberg scholarly family Planck and Friederike Helene Mack.

Ernst Rohmer had six siblings, including:

  • Friedrich Rohmer (1814–56), German-Swiss philosopher and politician, representative of pantheism , 1841/43 in Switzerland, most recently in Munich,
  • Theodor Rohmer (1820–56), political publicist, 1844 in Switzerland. Both brothers were friends with Johann Caspar Bluntschli and Heinrich Schulthess .
  • Mathilde Rohmer (1817–1881) was married to Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852), a German history and portrait painter from Stuttgart.

His aunt (on his mother's side) Luise Planck married the German mathematician, physicist and astronomer Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff (1774–1835) in 1817 . Their daughter, his cousin, Pauline Pfaff (1827–1907) was married to his childhood friend Karl Brater (1819–1869), the liberal political journalist, lawyer, mayor of Nördlingen and founder of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. One of her children was the writer Agnes Sapper . After the early death of her husband Karl Brater, his widow Pauline lived in poor circumstances. She raised the children of her late brother Hans Ulrich Vitalis Pfaff and rented rooms to Ferdinand Lindemann , among others .

Own family

Ernst Rohmer married Eugenie Beck (1825-1917) in Nördlingen in 1857, the widow of his deceased employer. Eugenie's first marriage was to Carl Beck (1817-1852), printer and publisher and bookseller. He was the son of Carl Gottlob Beck (1733-1802) and founder of the CH Beck publishing house. Eugenie was the daughter of the Kaufbeur textile entrepreneur family Johann Georg Heinzelmann (1782–1869) from Anna Susanna Worl (1790–1882) from Wöhrburg. In their first marriage, Eugenie and Carl Beck u. a. two children:

  • Stepson Oscar Beck (1850-1924). He took over the company in Nördlingen in 1884. Under his management, the CH Beck publishing house relocated to Munich in 1889 , the printing plant remained in Nördlingen .
  • Stepdaughter Klara Beck (1849–1918) She married Ludwig Müller (1831–1910), Dr. phil., professor, teacher at the Latin schools in Augsburg and Nördlingen, archivist and librarian in Nördlingen, since 1872 at the university and state library in Strasbourg, historian, privy councilor, honorary citizen of Nördlingen;

Eugenie had six children with Ernst Rohmer. Four sons and two daughters:

  • (one died early)
  • Eugen Rohmer (1858–1932), judge,
  • Gustav Rohmer (1868–1946), Dr. jur .; temporarily continued a series of his father's publications. 1907/08 private lecturer at the Technical University of Munich, 1918 Ministerialdirektor, 1922 State Councilor, 1928–33 Regional President of Middle Franconia, later Upper Franconia, retired in 1933
  • Theodor Rohmer (1861–1945), doctor in Nördlingen

Life

Ernst Rohmer grew up after the death of his father Dr. Johann David Rohmer (1777–1828) with his brother Theodor (1820–56) in the family of the philosopher, theologian and consistorial councilor Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer (1766–1848) in Munich, where the siblings together with the children of the lawyer, royal Bavarian Council of State and Senior Consistorial President Karl Johann Friedrich von Roth (1780-1852) were taught. At the grammar school, which he left after the lower secondary school, Ernst Rohmer became friends with Karl Brater , who later married Rohmer's cousin, the writer Pauline Pfaff. As a 17-year-old, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg from 1835. However, since he felt more drawn to the book trade, he worked as a bookshop assistant in Ulm , Freiburg im Breisgau , Koblenz , Stuttgart and Landau (Palatinate) from 1840 . After a serious health crisis, he turned to journalism. For a short time he worked in the editorial department of the “Süddeutschepolitische Zeitung” in Stuttgart and then worked from Munich as a state parliamentary reporter for the “Augsburger Abendzeitung” and as an employee of the “Nürnberger Korrespondent”. In 1850 his mother died. He now also had to take care of his ailing brothers Friedrich and Theodor. In 1851, thanks to the mediation of his childhood friend Karl Brater, the founder and editor of the "Blätter für administrative Praxis" published by Beck, he got a job in the prestigious CH Beck'schen bookstore in Nördlingen . The 33 year old Rohmer found his professional fulfillment here. In 1852 he brought his widowed sister Mathilde (1817-1881), widow of the painter Alexander Bruckmann (1806-1852) and their three small children to Nördlingen and founded a shared apartment with another unmarried sister. In the same year, 1852, Carl Beck suddenly died. He supported his widow together with Beck's younger brother Wilhelm (1821–79) in the management until he took it over himself after his marriage in 1857. Rohmer expanded the publisher's theological and legal program considerably, including through publications by his friends, the evangelical theologian Johann von Hofmann (1810–77) and the legal scholar Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1808–81), as well as the new laws and comments after 1848 / 49 and after the founding of the empire in 1871. Milestones in the series of Beck’s legal editions were the “Bayer” , founded in 1864 and edited by Eduard Graf . Notariatszeitung ”, the commentary on the Imperial Constitution (1871) penned by Emil (v.) Riedel (1832–1906) and the“ New collection of laws and ordinances for the Kingdom of Bavaria including the Imperial Legislation ”(16 vol., 1879–1919) . From 1861–1940 the “European History Calendar”, edited by Rohmer's Swiss friend Heinrich Schulthess (1815–85) until 1884, was published.

As the owner and editor of the “Nördlinger Wochenblatt” (since 1864 “Nördlinger Werbungblatt”), Rohmer took a stand for Bismarck and the small German solution. In 1859 he joined the newly founded German National Association, in 1863 he was one of the founders of the Bavarian Progress Party, for which he ran - unsuccessfully - in the elections to the Customs Parliament (1868) and Reichstag (1871 and 1874). Rohmer was also committed to professional issues, such as 1871–74 as first chairman of the South German Book Dealers Association. For three decades he was the magistrate of the city of Nördlingen and remained so after he handed over the management of the publishing house to his stepson Oscar Beck in 1884. |

  • The Württemberg theologian Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer (1766–1848)

  • School friend Karl Brater (1819–1869)

  • Portrait of Pauline Brater (1827–1907), 1850 oil painting by Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852)

  • ev. theologian Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann (1810–1877)

  • Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1808–1881)

  • Villa Villette bought his friend Heinrich Schulthess and his wife Berta in Cham, Canton Zug / Switzerland in 1863

  • Aerial photo of Nördlingen - 2010

  • Nördlingen, Bergerstrasse from Berger Tor; Berger Str. 3–5, headquarters of the CH Beck print shop

  • Nördlingen, old printing house. Metal font type

portrait

A pastel portrait of Erich Rohmer has been preserved by George von Hoeßlin (1851–1923), Royal Bavarian painter. His marriage to Elisabeth Merck resulted in two children: son Heinrich Balthasar and daughter Margarethe, who married Max Planck in 1911 .

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SURNAME Rohmer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenburg in Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1897
Place of death Nordlingen