Karl Rothe (politician, 1840)

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Grave of Carl Rothe in the old cemetery in Darmstadt

Karl Friedrich Bernhard Rothe , also Carl Friedrich Bernhard Rothe (* July 2, 1840 in Darmstadt ; † January 29, 1906 there ) was a German administrative officer and politician in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Minister of State there .

family

Karl Rothe was the son of the Grand Ducal Hessian Secret Finance Council Heinrich Rothe (1794–1848) and his wife Emma Zimmermann (1809–1887), the daughter of Finance Minister Karl Wilhelm Zimmermann (1782–1856). Karl Rothe, who was a Protestant denomination, married Susanna Magdalene Marie Luise Merck (1849–1929), daughter of the businessman Carl Wilhelm Merck (1849–1929) , on July 8, 1871 in Darmstadt . His sister Johanna Rothe (1838-1919) married the Grand Ducal Hessian Secret Higher Tax Council in Darmstadt, Johann August Friedrich von Hahn (1828-1892). His daughter Marie Rothe married Johannes (Hans) Emil Bendermann , later a Prussian lieutenant general.

Life

Karl Rothe attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt, passed the Abitur there in 1857 and studied law at the State University of Gießen from 1858 . In 1859 he studied for two semesters at the University of Heidelberg , but then finished his studies in Gießen in 1860 and 1861 with very good ratings. In 1862 and 1863 he did his legal clerkship at various Darmstadt authorities and passed the state examination with grade 1. After graduating, he was a court attorney in Heidelberg . In 1867 he became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Grand Ducal House, and in 1876 was appointed Legation Councilor. From 1881 he worked as a councilor of the Darmstadt provincial directorate. From September 1, 1881 to August 5, 1884 he was a district councilor in the Offenbach district and from 1884 Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior and Justice. On September 20, 1888 he moved to the board of directors of the cabinet and on October 17, 1891 as provincial director in the Mainz provincial directorate, where he was appointed privy councilor in 1892 .

On July 2, 1898, he became Minister of State, i.e. Head of Cabinet and Minister of the Grand Ducal House, Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interior. His death in 1906 ended his career.

During Roth's reign a number of liberal and social modernizations took place, including the replacement of real burdens and easements with the law of 1899, the Cremation Act (which the previous government had always opposed), the Housing Welfare Act and Germany's first monument protection law .

He saw himself in the tradition of the non-party Hesse-Darmstadt official governments . At the session of the Landtag on June 29, 1904, he said, "The government has to be above the parties, not to be a party".

Karl Rothe was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: III Wall 91).

Honors

In 1889 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Mainz .

literature

  • Max Rehm: The Hessian Minister of State Karl Rothe. (1840-1906). In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. NF 33. 1975, ISSN  0066-636X , pp. 264-296.
  • Eckhart G. Franz : Hessen-Darmstadt 1820–1935. In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Vol. 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Vol. 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 302.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Rehm: The Hessian Minister of State Karl Rothe. (1840-1906). In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. NF 33. 1975, pp. 264-296, here p. 282.
personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothe, Karl Friedrich Bernhard (full name); Rothe, Carl Friedrich Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and politician in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Minister of State there
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1906
Place of death Darmstadt