Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen

Ballhorn roses, around 1820

Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Ballhorn-Rosen (born April 12, 1774 in Hanover , † October 15, 1855 in Detmold ) was a German lawyer and Chancellor of Lippe. He was the namesake of the Rosen family, which in the following years produced important orientalists and diplomats.

Life

Ballhorn-Rosen was the eighth of nine children of the married couple Ludwig Wilhelm Ballhorn (1730–1777) and Christine Marie Magdalene Ballhorn , nee. Cloud Hair (1744-1812). The ancestors came from the Altmark and came to Hanover via Holstein. Five of his siblings died early. Together with his brother Georg Friedrich , he attended the Hanover Lyceum . On April 21, 1793 he enrolled at the University of Göttingen for the subjects of theology and philology. He broke off his theology studies and received his doctorate in 1798. phil. with the dissertation De jure naturali veterum . Back in Hanover he became a teacher at the farm daughters' school run by his mother. From 1800 Ballhorn-Rosen was tutor to Count Diederik Johan Hogendorp in Amsterdam and taught his sons. At the age of 28 he returned to Germany and devoted himself to law. Ballhorn-Rosen received his doctorate in law in Göttingen as early as 1803, then worked at the university as a faculty assessor and later as an associate professor. In addition, he worked as a lawyer until 1817.

In June 1814, Princess Pauline of Lippe, accompanied by superintendent Ferdinand Weerth, visited Ballhorn-Rosen in Göttingen in search of mentors for her sons Friedrich and Leopold. The sons were taught by Ballhorn-Rosen and meanwhile lived in his house in Göttingen. Pauline awarded Ballhorn-Rosen the title of court counselor and guaranteed him a job in Detmold as soon as the princes' education was over.

In the spring of 1817, Friedrich Ballhorn took on the name Ballhorn-Rosen and decreed that his children should only bear the surname Rosen. He never made the reasons for this public. Shortly afterwards he moved to Hiddesen with his wife and four children . At the request of his wife, they soon moved to Detmold and had a house next to the Lutheran church . In Detmold, Ballhorn-Rosen was vice director of the law firm and criminal judge. Princess Pauline also entrusted him with political tasks, for example in 1819 he was a negotiator in the Federal Assembly . For this he was promoted to office director. After Pauline's death, he concentrated on his work in the law firm.

In 1846 Leopold II appointed Ballhorn-Rosen as Chancellor of the Principality of Lippe. After several strokes in 1854, he died on October 15, 1855 in Detmold.

Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen was married twice. He married his first wife, Charlotte Eisendecher (1781–1818), in 1804. Together they had a daughter and five sons: Friedrich August (1805–1837), Emilie (1807–1829), Gisbert (1808–1876), Bodo (1810) –1813), Bodo II. (1814–1848) and Hermann (1818–1866). A second marriage connected him from 1820 to Sophie Rudorff (1787-1859). The children Georg (1820-1891), Sophie (1822-1901), Auguste (1824-1848), Ernst (1826-1832) and Elise (1829-1897) came from this relationship .

literature

• Herbert Stöwer, Hans-Peter Wehlt, Agnes Stache-Weiske (eds.): What great times we are experiencing! The letters of the Lippe Chancellor Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen to his son Georg in Constantinople 1847-1851 (=  Lippische Geschistorquellen . Volume 23 ). Detmold 1999, ISBN 3-923384-14-9 .
• Max Staercke (ed.): People from the Lippe soil . Verlag der Meyerschen Hofbuchhandlung, Detmold 1936, p. 156-160 ( digitized version ).
• Frank Meier, Andreas Ruppert: Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen - The founder of a worldly family . In: Heimatland Lippe . tape 4/2016 , 2016, ISSN  0017-9787 , p. 72-73 .

Web links

• The estate of Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors