Hermann Roemer

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German theologian of the same name, see Hermann Römer .

Hermann Roemer in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum

Hermann Roemer

Georg Carl Hermann Roemer (born January 4, 1816 in Hildesheim , † February 24, 1894 ibid) was a German politician.

Life

The son of the judiciary Christian Friedrich Roemer (1776–1821) and Charlotte Wilhelmine Lüntzel (1786–1843) studied law and geology in Göttingen and Heidelberg from 1836 to 1839 ; got a position at the city court in Hildesheim in 1840 and was promoted to assessor in 1849 . In November 1852 Hermann Roemer was Senator in the council of the city of Hildesheim. The Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, founded in 1844, still bears his name today, as he played a decisive role in its establishment. From 1867 to 1890 he was a national liberal member of the Constituent Reichstag , the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and the German Reichstag . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . With his retirement in 1882 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen and honorary citizenship of the city of Hildesheim.

Quote

"There is no more lovable city than Hildesheim, and nothing is more honorable than serving it."

family

His oldest brother, Friedrich Adolph Roemer (1810–1869) was a lawyer and natural scientist (geologist, botanist), director of the Clausthal mining academy ; likewise the younger brother Ferdinand von Roemer (1818-1891), the secret mountain ridge.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 123
2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
3. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 273, short biography p. 456.
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 8, 2010  

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 264–271
• Rudolf Zoder: Hermann Roemer 1816-1894 . In: Otto Heinrich May (ed.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder, Vol. 3, Hildesheim: Lax 1957, pp. 202–226
• Bettina Schmitz :  Roemer, Georg Carl Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 722 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Hermann Roemer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hermann Roemer in the database of members of the Reichstag