Karl Otto von Raumer

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Karl Otto von Raumer (born September 17, 1805 in Stargard in Pomerania , † August 6, 1859 in Berlin ) was a Prussian statesman.

origin

Von Raumer was a descendant of the old Bavarian and from the 17th century Saxon noble family von Raumer . His parents were the Prussian major general Karl Heinrich Friedrich von Raumer (1757–1831) and his wife Albertine von Tschirschky (1768–1838), daughter of the Prussian major general Carl Wilhelm von Tschirschky .

Live and act

He attended grammar school in Stettin and then studied law at the University of Göttingen and the Humboldt University of Berlin . He was then taken over from 1831 as assessor and from 1834 as councilor, first in Posen and in 1838 in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1840 Raumer was appointed to the Ministry of Finance, where he was promoted to the Secret Finance Council that same year . One year later he was appointed secret councilor in the Ministry of the Interior, in 1843 as vice president of the Königsberg district government , in 1845 as district president of the Cologne district government and in the same position in 1848 of the Frankfurt an der Oder district government . On December 19, 1850, Otto Theodor von Manteuffel's cabinet appointed him as minister of culture in the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs , which he headed until Manteuffel's dismissal in November 1858. In the meantime, from 1850 to 1852 he was still a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Parliament and then as a non-attached member of the Prussian House of Representatives.

Karl Otto von Raumer was a main representative of the orthodox monarchist reaction and with his politics belonged to the extended arm of the camarilla , an unofficial but influential advisory group to the king. Among his various unpopular measures, the most violent contradiction was found in the so-called ( Stiehlschen ) “regulatives” published in 1854 . The Christian-ecclesiastical element should be made the foundation of the elementary school and the students of the seminars should be denied occupation with the German classics. On the other hand, they led to a limitation and simplification of the subject matter, which was overlooked. Already two years earlier he had received criticism for his “Raumer decrees”, in which he himself, coming from a traditional Protestant family, wanted to bring the clergy, especially the Catholic, more under state control. As a result, there was a political influence on the state elections in 1852 and, encouraged by August Reichensperger, the formation of the Catholic parliamentary group in the Prussian House of Representatives . This ultimately led to the non-formal but substantive withdrawal of these decrees. In 1851 he was responsible for the ban on Froebel's kindergartens . However, due to the emigration of many Froebel supporters, this led to the triumph of the kindergarten idea in many parts of the world.

For his statesmanship, von Raumer was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class.

Grave site in the Alter St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin

Karl Otto von Raumer is buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave until 2017 .

family

Karl Otto von Raumer was married to Elise Wilhelmine Clementine von Brauchitsch (1820-1891), daughter of the Prussian infantry general Eduard von Brauchitsch . He left three sons and four daughters:

  • Karl Albrecht Eduard (born January 17, 1842 - September 21, 1876), court assessor
  • Rudolf Heinrich (7 August 1843 - 17 June 1882), district administrator
  • Anna Elisabeth (born June 3, 1845) ⚭ 1870 Rudolf von Wedell († December 27, 1890), Prussian Rittmeister
  • Marie Charlotte Elisabeth (* November 21, 1846; † July 15, 1885) ⚭ 1869 Albert von Oertzen, Prussian cavalry master
  • Eduard Bernhard Friedrich (born May 26, 1846 - † January 26, 1871), Prussian lieutenant
  • Elisabeth Luise Hedwig (born June 6, 1852; August 12, 1888) ⚭ 1870 Georg von Hagen († August 2, 1898), lieutenant colonel, commander of the 11th Dragoon Regiment
  • Agnes Berta Elisabeth (born March 25, 1856)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Raumer, Karl Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1859
Place of death Berlin