Karl Martin Rogg

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Karl Rogg, ca.1890

Karl Martin Rogg (born February 7, 1836 in St. Katharinental Monastery , † September 1, 1901 in Frauenfeld ) was a Swiss Councilor and Chief Justice.

Life

Karl Martin Rogg was the son of the councilor, district court president and monastery administrator Dominik Rogg and Maria Antonia, nee. Vorster. He graduated from secondary school at Einsiedeln Abbey School and studied philosophy in Munich (1855), later law in Innsbruck (1856–57), Berlin (1857–58) and Heidelberg. In 1859 he passed the bar exam in the canton of Thurgau . From 1860 he ran a practice as a lawyer in Frauenfeld and was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Thurgau , to which he belonged from 1860 to 1867.

In 1861 he married Josephine Fischer (1827–1898), a daughter of the politician and leader of the Freiämtersturm , “General” Johann Heinrich Fischer . A daughter of Karl Martin and Josephine Rogg-Fischer, Maria Anna Carolina Rogg (1868–1954), married the historian and university professor Albert Büchi in 1895 .

Services

In 1864 Rogg was elected to the indictment chamber of the canton of Thurgau, from 1866 he was a member of the higher court , from 1869 to 1897 its vice-president.

From 1895 to 1900 he was President of the Catholic Church Council of the Canton of Thurgau, from 1868 to 1884 Board of Directors of the Frauenfeld community, and from 1880 to 1884 President of the management of the municipal savings bank in Frauenfeld. In the army he was quartermaster with the rank of captain . He was also the owner of the “Zum Stadtschryber” (formerly “Schäfli” inn), which was owned by the Rogg family for 234 years, from 1692 to 1926.

He wrote fundamental decisions of the higher court and the criminal chamber (1880) as well as numerous individual treatises in the field of legal questions.

literature

  • Angelus Hux : The house "Zum Stadtschryber" and the Rogg von Frauenfeld family. Festschrift 90 years of Raiffeisenbank Frauenfeld, 2012; ISBN 978-3-03789-002-8 .
  • Albert Büchi: Necrology on Carl Rogg-Fischer ; in: Roses of the Month of the Swiss Student Association, 46th year.
  • Verena Baumer-Müller: "General" Heinrich Fischer. Schwanenwirt zu Merenschwand, b. 1790 - lost 1861 . Historical Society Freiamt , Wohlen 1991 (Our homeland; Vol. 61).
  • Verena Baumer-Müller: The last convent of the Dominican Sisters at St. Katharinental ; in: Thurgau Contributions to History vol. 131 (1994) ; Pp. 5-140.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bürgerarchiv Frauenfeld, minutes of the municipal administration, Bürgerbuch der Stadt Frauenfeld and annual reports of the Sparkasse.
  2. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , year 1889; No. 69.
  3. ↑ Angelus Hux: The house "Zum Stadtschryber" and the Rogg von Frauenfeld family. Festschrift 90 years of Raiffeisenbank Frauenfeld, 2012; ISBN 978-3-03789-002-8 ; P. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Rogg, Karl Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Grand Councilor and Chief Justice
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Catherine
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1901
Place of death Frauenfeld