Hermann Roeren

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Hermann Roeren

Hermann Roeren (born March 29, 1844 in Rüthen in Westphalia, † December 23, 1920 in Cologne-Lindenthal ) was a German lawyer and member of the Reichstag .

Roeren, who had sat in the Reichstag for the German Center Party since 1893 , played a crucial role in clearing up several scandals involving the colonial official Geo A. Schmidt that had occurred in the German colony of Togo at the beginning of the 20th century . Together with Matthias Erzberger, Hermann Roeren was a spokesman against the continuation of the colonial wars in the German colonies and against the government proposal for a supplementary budget, which was related to the high administrative costs and the suppression of the Herero and Nama uprising in German South West Africa .

In 1898 he and the Volkswartbund founded the Catholic moral movement in Cologne. He was the spokesman for the center in the campaign to tighten criminal law by the so-called Lex Heinze .

Before the so-called " Hottentot Elections " in 1907, Roeren published material that incriminated various colonial officials and business people for various offenses. For example, the conclusion of monopoly agreements between the German Reich and the Woermann shipping company and the Tippelskirch company for military equipment that delivered goods to the colonies at extremely inflated prices. Co-owner of Tippelskirch & Co. was the then Agriculture Minister Victor of Podbielski .

In the course of the debate, Roeren's political opponents charged that Roeren had blackmailed the Reich government with the material and wanted to impose the will of the center on it.

literature

  • Hermann Christern (Ed.): German Biographical Yearbook. Transition volume 2: 1917/1920. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rebekka Habermas : Scandal in Togo - A Chapter of German Colonial Rule. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397229-0 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard Richter: National Thinking in Catholicism of the Weimar Republic . LIT-Verlag, 2000, p. 66
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.csgkoeln.de
  4. ↑ Martin Baer: A head hunt. Germans in East Africa. Traces of colonial rule. Ch.links Verlag, 2001, p. 107

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personal data
SURNAME Roeren, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüthen
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1920
Place of death Cologne-Lindenthal