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
- Hans-Georg Merz: Roggenbach, Franz Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 756 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 210-211.
- Otto Kähni: The honorary citizens of the city of Offenburg . City of Offenburg, Offenburg 1970.
- Hermann Einhaus: Franz von Roggenbach. A Baden statesman between German Whigs and a liberal camarilla . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1991, ISBN 978-3-631-42195-6 .
- Julius Heyderhoff (editor): In the ring of Bismarck's opponents: Memoranda and Political correspondence between Franz von Roggenbach and Empress Augusta and Albrecht von Stosch 1865–1896 . Osnabrück 1967
- Walther Peter Fuchs: Franz von Roggenbach . Karlsruhe 1954.
- August Baumhauer: Franz Freiherr von Roggenbach the Baden statesman and last Baden foreign minister. In: Das Markgräflerland , issue 2/1954, pp. 41–57, digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
- Hans Fenske: Baden 1860 to 1918 . In: Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 3: From the end of the old empire to the end of the monarchies. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-608-91467-6 , pp. 135-141, 146-152.
- Willy Andreas : Franz Freiherr von Roggenbach . In: Albert Krieger (Ed.): Badische Biographien . Part VI (1902-1911) , Winter, Heidelberg 1927, pp. 641-656 .
- A “German” man as a minister . In: The Gazebo . Issue 21, 1863, pp. 331–334 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz von Roggenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz von Roggenbach in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual references / comments
personal data | |
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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 |