Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Roemer

Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Roemer

Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Roemer (born June 15, 1788 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † August 9, 1865 ibid) was a German legal scholar, judge and politician of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . From 1849 to 1865 he was President of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court .

Life

Roemer was the son of the Oldenburg chamber director Dietrich Christian Roemer (1748–1819). After attending grammar school in his hometown, he began to study law at the University of Jena and the Friedrich-Alexander University . In 1806 he joined the Erlangen-Westphalia . He moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Like other fellow students from Oldenburg, he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg in 1809 . After completing his studies, he entered the civil service of the Duchy of Oldenburg in November 1810 . With the incorporation of the duchy into the department of the Weser estuaries on January 1, 1811 through the annexation into the First Empire , he was dismissed from the civil service and only in 1814, after the departure of the Grande Armée , was hired again as an assessor at the Regional Court of Oldenburg . In 1819 he moved to the judicial office of the Grand Duchy and became a member of the consistory . He also acted as co-director of the teachers' college from 1824 to 1827. In 1826 he was also accepted into the Oldenburg Literary Society . In 1828 Roemer was appointed Chief Appeal Counsel at the Higher Appeal Court in Oldenburg and, in 1830, was temporarily commissioned to manage the affairs of the judicial office and the consistory. Appointed Deputy Director of the Law Office and Consistory in 1832, he was given the title of Councilor of Justice in 1833 and the title of Privy Councilor in 1834 . In 1837 he was promoted to director of the law firm and the consistory of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. In 1842 he became a secret cabinet councilor in the State Ministry of the Grand Duchy. Roemer belonged to the small group of the Oldenburg civil service , which advocated a careful modernization of the state. As a moderate conservative , after the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he advocated a policy of preventive liberalization in order to catch up with concessions to the popular movement and to steer it in an orderly way. On July 13, 1849, he was appointed President of the Oldenburg Court of Appeal, which he headed until his retirement on July 7, 1865. Vice-president of the court was his Heidelberg corps brother Heinrich Wilhelm Hayen .

Roemer was married to Katharina von Buschmann (April 12, 1810 - September 4, 1884), a daughter of the Russian State Councilor Gerhard Friedrich von Buschmann (1780-1856) from Oldenburg . From the marriage the son Berthold Wilhelm Gerhard Roemer (1836-1905) and the daughter Johanne Gerhardine (1832-1887) emerged.

Honors

• On November 13, 1860, Roemer was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University to celebrate his 50th anniversary in service.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Roemer. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 607 ( online ).
• Heinrich Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1, 1809–1899, Göttingen 2002, No. 03
• Henry A. Smith (Ed.): Eutin - Heidelberg 1811. Correspondence between the student Ernst Hellwag and his family in Eutin , series: Eutiner Research Volume 11, Eutin State Library 2009, p. 210 ISBN 9783939643029

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment in Erlangen on May 1, 1805
2. ^ Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The Erlanger Westphalia 1794-1809 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 74–94, here p. 93.
3. ^ Enrollment in Heidelberg on October 23, 1807
4. ↑ Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur , Vol. 53, Mohr and Zimmer, 1860, p. 965