Johannes Rösing (diplomat)

Johannes Rösing (born May 5, 1833 in Bremen , † April 8, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , editor and diplomat .

biography

family

Johannes IV. Rösing was the son of the textile and banker and politician Johannes Rösing (1793–1862). In the Bremen citizenship , Johannes III. Rösing had radical democratic ideas, so that the family went to Paris in 1842 to avoid further politically motivated harassment in Bremen. The family returned two years later.

In 1864 he married Clara von Ammon (1843–1931) in Cologne; both had nine children.

Youth and Studies

Johannes IV. Rösing first attended the local grammar school, changed schools again and in 1852 passed the school leaving examination at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück . He then studied law at the University of Heidelberg , the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen he joined the Hannovera fraternity , to which he remained lifelong. A lifelong friendship with Magnus von Wedderkop also developed in Heidelberg . After a doctorate to Dr. jur. and state examination, he settled in Bremen as a lawyer in 1856. At the same time he worked on the liberal Weser newspaper .

job

In 1861 he entered the diplomatic service of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and became the diplomatic chargé d'affaires of the Hanseatic cities as attaché to the Bremen legation in Washington (DC) . In spring 1863 he represented the three north German Hanseatic cities at the 1st Universal Postal Conference in Paris.

He soon became chargé d'affaires of the Hanseatic Legation in Washington (DC) and tried to expand trade relations between the USA and the German Hanseatic cities. In 1868 he was appointed Consul General of the North German Confederation and in 1871 of the German Empire in New York. In 1874 he joined the Reich Chancellery as a lecturer and was one of the few officials in this position who did not come from the Prussian service. After the establishment of the Reich Office of the Interior in 1880 and the transfer of tasks from the Reich Chancellery to the new authority, Rösing was transferred to the central department of this office, but retained a substantial part of his previous duties. This also included the negotiation of friendship, trade, shipping and consular agreements between the German Reich and foreign states (see e.g. the agreement with the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands from 1879, RGBl. 1880, p. 121 ). At the same time he was chairman of the Technical Commission for Shipping from 1877 to 1897.

In 1892 Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed him chairman of the Reichsinvalidenfonds for life . This authority was also responsible for the administration of the fund for the construction of the Reichstag building . Johannes Rösing, who had long since been promoted to the Real Secret Upper Government Council with the rank of First Class Council, retired in 1903 at his own request.

Further memberships

He was a board member of the Central Association for the Welfare of the Working Class and Chairman of the Association for Children's Sanatoriums on the German Sea Coasts and the Berlin District Association of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS).

honors and awards

Before he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, he was offered the Order of the Black Eagle, with which the hereditary nobility was connected, as a "of" also for his children. He refused on the grounds that his children should make something of themselves.

• Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with oak leaves
• Order of the Kingdom of Württemberg
• Order of the Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse
• Kalakaua Order 2nd Class of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands
• Naming of a steel motor lifeboat of the DGzRS in the name of "DR. JOHANNES RÖSING ”, which was used in Bremerhaven from 1933 to 1943 and then in Travemünde until 1949.

Publications

• Memories of life , told to his children and grandchildren, Berlin 1903. Newly transcribed and edited by Dr Jürgen Sanders, Brussels. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013.

literature

• Federal Law Gazette of the North German Confederation 1868, Berlin, p. 515.
• Reichsgesetzblatt 1871, Berlin, p. 401
• Handbook for the German Empire to the year 1884, Berlin, pp. 105 and 107 f.
• Handbook for the German Empire to the year 1892, Berlin, p. 217.
• Deutsches Zeitgenossenlexikon, Biographical Handbook of German Men and Women of the Present, Leipzig: Verlagbuchhandlung Schulze & Co., 1905, p. 1209 f.
• Rudolf Morsey : The highest imperial administration under Bismarck 1867-1890 . Aschendorfsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1957, pp. 57 f., 214 and 251 f.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). KG Saur, Munich 1998, p. 360.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 98-99.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Wilhelm Esmann: The lifeboats of the DGzRS from 1865-2004 . Hauschild, Bremen 2004, p. 46.
• Norbert Klatt (Hsgr.): Letters from Rudolph Schleiden, Johannes Rösing and Clara von Ammon from the years 1862-1874: Rheinromantik and Civil War. In the diplomatic service in the United States of America . Klatt, Göttingen 2003.
• Johannes Rösing and Clara von Ammon - letters from the engagement time in 1863 about Cologne, Bremen and the first international postal conference in Paris. : Klatt, Göttingen 2009.
• Henning Tegtmeyer : Letters from and to Federal Brother Johannes Rösing , Revised version of the article from the Federal Newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 101 (New Series), October 2011, No. 2, pp. 29–37

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/haben/seiler/lesmona-projekt/lösungen/martin/biographie.html
2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 98-99.
3. ↑ http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Freundschafts-,_Handels-,_Schifffahrts-_und_Konsularvertrag_ Zwischen_dem_Deutschen_Reich_und_dem_K%C3% B6nigreich_der_Hawaiischen_Inernen
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. 
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2012 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.