Karl Ludwig Roeck

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Karl Ludwig Roeck, around 1867

Karl Ludwig Roeck , Lic. Jur., (Born June 7, 1790 in Lübeck ; † January 29, 1869 there ) was Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Life

Roeck was a son of the businessman and from 1797 inspector of the Holy Spirit Hospital Johann Philipp Roeck, a brother of Hermann Friedrich Roeck , and his wife Anna Carolina, née. Curtius, a sister of Carl Hermann Curtius and Carl Georg Curtius . The brothers Theodor , Ernst and Georg Curtius were his cousins.

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1809 and then studied law in Heidelberg and Dijon . In Heidelberg in 1810 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg and in April 1811 of the Harmonische Verein around the composer Carl Maria von Weber . In 1814 he became secretary of the council in Lübeck and in 1815 took part in the war of liberation as a voluntary hunter of the Hanseatic Legion . Councilor in 1833 and mayor for the first time in 1855 after the reform of the Senate in 1848. In 1850 he represented the city in the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament , and in 1863 the Senate at the Frankfurt Fürstentag .

Roeck received the highest award in Lübeck, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin . According to him, which was Roeckstraße in the district of Lübeck St. Gertrud named.

Roeck and the fine arts

As a dilettante, Karl Ludwig Roeck painted the Ersheim Chapel in Hirschhorn am Neckar in the style of Heidelberg Romanticism on a student excursion in 1810

Through friends such as Friedrich Overbeck and Theodor Rehbenitz as well as more extensive acquaintances such as Peter von Cornelius, Roeck was already closely related to the art of his time as a student at Heidelberg University. He himself was by no means an untalented dilettante in the enlightening sense and the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck keeps a portfolio of drawings mostly by his hand, most of which have not yet been published. Influenced by Carl Friedrich von Rumohr's ideas, Roeck campaigned for monument protection in Germany early on . In Lübeck, the first legal provisions were passed in 1818. On the administrative side, Roeck was one of the saviors of the art treasures of the Maria Magdalen Church in the castle monastery in Lübeck. During his life he built up a small art collection, which on his death fell into the Lübeck collections of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Some of them are still part of the collections of the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck.

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Web links

Commons : Carl Ludwig Roeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Karl Ludwig Roeck to Friedrich Overbeck, 1810  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Pronunciation Roock , without e with long o, e and c are Low German expansion symbols
  2. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) (digitized version) , No. 5
  3. ↑ Karl Ludwig Roeck in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition ; In his diary Weber prescribes “Roeck” mainly in “Roek”; this is not yet reproduced there.
  4. ↑ Antiquities of the Transalbingian Saxony , 1813,
personal data
SURNAME Roeck, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roeck, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1869
Place of death Lübeck