Johannes Rösing (politician, 1793)

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Johannes Rösing (born September 1, 1793 in Bremen , † October 8, 1862 in Bremen) was a German businessman and Bremen politician.

biography

Rösing was the son of a textile merchant. According to the family count, he was the III. from X of this first name. He learned his father's trade. From 1813 to 1814 he was a volunteer in the Hanseatic Legion and with the Lützow Jäger in the Wars of Liberation . His son of the same name, Johannes Rösing (IV) (1833–1909) was a lawyer, editor, diplomat and high imperial official. The Johannes-Rösing-Weg in Bremen- Obervieland was named after Johannes Rösing (V) (1866–1953), Syndicus of the Chamber of Commerce and son of IV.

Linens and banking

He founded in Bremen in 1817 an import / export trading lines with a Comptoir in the long road no. 103. Carl Ferdinand Plump, his wife Elisabeth's brother, was to be 1,827 partners. In the 1830s, the Rösing & Plump company expanded its business area: it was now called “linen and exchange business”. Increasingly, they concentrated on the lucrative banking business. As a result of his political persecution, Rösing left the company in 1842, which was subsequently called Bankhaus Carl F. Plump & Co. and had business premises at Langenstrasse 19. A banking business as Rösing und Compagnie continued after 1839.

Radical-liberal politician

In the 1820s, Rösing became a member of the Bremen Citizens' Convention . Politically, he represented very liberal and people-oriented positions and was therefore persecuted, interrogated and arrested in 1835. So he made the decision to go into exile. He then stayed in Paris and was able to return in 1837. As a good speaker he found numerous supporters among the young merchants of the Union . Politically, he wanted to achieve a democratic constitution in Bremen in which the rights of the “little man” should be given sufficient consideration. In July 1848 Rösing, Nikolaus Ordemann and the watchmaker Georg Meyer were founders of the Democratic Association , which consisted of professional craftsmen. The communists soon left this association and formed a general workers' association . Rösing propagated an armed popular uprising and was in contact with the theologian and democratic revolutionary Rudolph Dulon , pastor at the Bremen Church of Our Dear Women . During his travels he made contact with the revolutionaries of the time, including meeting Karl Marx in London . His political stance led to house searches and imprisonment. As a result, he handed over his bank to the Compagnon and brother-in-law Plump. After 1848 he belonged to the Bremen citizenship until his death in 1862 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lydia Niehoff: Chronicle of the Plump Family , Bremen o. J. [2005], pp. 102-108.

Works

  • Johannes Rösing: To Bremen's common man from his fellow citizen Johannes Rösing , Brockhaus , Leipzig 1843.
  • Johannes Rösing: The criminal court in Bremen before the judgment seat of public opinion, Brockhaus , Leipzig 1844.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Rösing, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and Bremen politician, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1862
Place of death Bremen