Franz von Roggenbach

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Franz Freiherr von Roggenbach, 1862. Graphic after a painting by John.
Franz von Roggenbach

Franz Freiherr von Roggenbach (born March 23, 1825 in Mannheim , † May 25, 1907 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Baden politician.

Life

Franz von Roggenbach came from the detected since 1132 Gender those of Roggenbach . He was the son of General Heinrich Adam von Roggenbach and Countess Melanie von Walderdorff (August 6, 1795 - May 14, 1868). During his studies in 1843 he became a member of the Heidelberg fraternity . After studying law in Heidelberg , Roggenbach worked as a secretary in the Reich Foreign Ministry in Frankfurt in 1848/49 . 1849-1851 he worked in the Baden embassy in Bonn , where he came into contact with Ernst Moritz Arndt .

Roggenbach lived in Freiburg and at Ehner-Fahrnau Castle in Schopfheim .

In the Baden Kulturkampf

Roggenbach was friends with the Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden and exercised political influence as an advisor. He contributed to the fact that in the Baden Kulturkampf the convention with the Catholic Church, supported by the Stengel cabinet , was rejected in the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly , and the Grand Duke then declared the convention he had previously accepted to be unconstitutional. In general, Roggenbach fought against ultramontanism . The Grand Duke later replaced the Stengel cabinet and Roggenbach became minister.

The minister

In 1861 Roggenbach became Minister of the Grand Ducal House and Foreign Affairs in Baden. Together with Julius Jolly, he fought for German unification under Prussian rule, the so-called Little German Solution . In 1863/64 he was also Baden's Minister of Commerce. In 1865 Roggenbach resigned in the wake of the Schleswig-Holstein crisis .

The assemblyman

From 1861 to 1866 he held a mandate in the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly for the constituency of the offices of Schopfheim and Kandern . From 1868 to 1870 he was a member of the customs parliament as a member of the Baden 4 constituency ( Lörrach , Müllheim ) . From 1871 to 1874 Roggenbach was a member of the Reichstag parliamentary group of the Liberal Reich Party .

The statesman without a state

Roggenbach maintained good relations with the Empress Augusta , the Crown Prince couple Friedrich and Victoria , and with Albrecht von Stosch - a rival of Bismarck's . For these people - as for the Grand Duke of Baden - he worked as a consultant and prepared memoranda.

Curator of the University of Strasbourg

After Alsace was ceded to the German Empire as a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 , there was often demand in Germany for the re-establishment of the German university in Strasbourg , which fell in 1803 . On May 24, 1871, this re-establishment was decided by the German Reichstag and Roggenbach was appointed to lead the commission for the re-establishment. At Roggenbach's instigation, Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken - an opponent of Bismarck - received a professorship for international law and political science in Strasbourg. As early as Easter 1872 the university began provisional teaching and in May 1872 Roggenbach resigned from his position as curator after his work was finished .

Honors

In 1862 he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Offenburg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz von Roggenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ from the Schopfheimer line of the house Roggenbach
  2. ↑ s. Merz p. 756.
personal data
SURNAME Roggenbach, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roggenbach, Franz Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LRP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1907
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau