Karl von Roser

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Karl Ludwig Friedrich Roser , from 1828 by Roser , (also Carl ; * March 20, 1787 in Vaihingen an der Enz ; † December 27, 1861 in Stuttgart ) was a ministerial secretary, secret legation councilor , director of the state archive , the feudal council and state councilor . For a short time Roser was head of the Foreign Ministry in the Kingdom of Württemberg .

origin

Roser's parents come from the Württemberg bourgeoisie

Karl of Rosers parents Friedrich Karl Roser († 1822) from Köngen and his wife Elisabeth Kaufmann, the early deceased daughter of the Privy Council of merchant from Stuttgart. Friedrich Karl Roser was from 1784 to 1793 as senior bailiff in Vaihingen an der Enz, then until 1808 in Winnenden and then until his death as senior bailiff in Herrenberg .

First lesson with Preceptor Breitschwerdt

Karl von Roser received his first lessons from his tutor, the Preceptor Breitschwerdt from Ludwigsburg . Then he attended high school in Stuttgart and lived as a so-called food student in the house of Professor Roth. During the holidays, Roser stayed in the family with his father and siblings. Roser found his father's house in Winnenden and the mountainous area around the Rems valley to be his real home .

Career

Start of law studies

In 1804, at the request of his father, Roser began studying law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , although he himself would have preferred to study medicine or the natural sciences . In accordance with his inclination, he conducted independent observations of the processes in nature and attended lectures on general zoology with Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer . His friends from his student days included law students Ludwig Uhland , Karl Mayer and medical student Justinus Kerner .

State examination, studies in Paris and subsequent educational trip

The legal exam , the oral exam at the University of Tübingen before 1850, the professors present on the examination board are presented; 1. Leopold August Warnkönig 2. Christian Reinhold Köstlin 3. Adolf Michaelis 4. Karl Gustav Geib 5. Eduard Schrader 6. Max Samuel von Mayer , as well as three exam candidates

After almost three years of study, Roser passed the legal state examination in Stuttgart with summa cum laude and was admitted to the bar on September 29, 1807 . After completing his legal exams , Roser went to Paris to study . Here he deepened his knowledge of jurisdiction , the legal basis of the French state , enshrined in the Code Napoléon issued in 1804 . At the same time, Roser also heard the lectures by Georges Cuvier .

Enriched with new knowledge through Cuvier, and completion of his studies in the French political system, Roser went on his educational trip and study trip to the south of France, where he dealt in detail with the fauna and flora of the Mediterranean area. His studies took him to southern Italy.

He visited Naples , visited Vesuvius and the sunken Pompeii . His journey home took him via Rome , north of the Italian boot across the Alps , to his homeland in Württemberg .

Establishment as a lawyer - appointment to the civil service

After working as an actuary in his father's clerk 's office in Herrenberg , Karl von Roser settled as a lawyer in Stuttgart. In 1811 King Friedrich appointed Karl von Roser to the Württemberg civil service after reviewing a criminal case he had described. Roser became secretary in the War Ministry in 1815 , and from 1816 on the Württemberg Constitutional Commission. He was promoted to senior government councilor in the Ministry of the Interior in 1817.

Change from the Ministry of the Interior to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

When he was appointed Legation Councilor in 1819, he moved from the Ministry of the Interior to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When he was transferred to the Foreign Ministry, knowledge of foreign legal relationships and languages, namely French , which he had acquired through his trip abroad, played an essential role. Roser worked as a censor in the Foreign Ministry. In Württemberg there had actually been freedom of the press by law since 1817, but due to the Karlsbad resolutions , censorship was again necessary in Württemberg as a superordinate federal law.

The aim was to prevent newspaper articles that could disrupt relations, especially with Austria or Prussia . Other fields of activity Roser were the interests of the customs union , the drafting of contracts with foreign states to protect the Württemberg trade interests, the consular system and the care for Württemberg subjects abroad in various legal situations. In 1824 Roser was promoted to the Secret Legation Council and in 1845 he became director of the State Archives.

Roser's years in office after the March Revolution of 1848

After the German Revolution , which broke out in March 1848 , the Roman Ministry took over the Württemberg government, in which Roser was in charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs. According to today's understanding, this corresponded to the position of foreign minister without Roser ever being awarded the title of minister. With the end of the Römer government, Roser resigned to his previous position as director and lecturing councilor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was appointed director of the fief council in 1851. After 45 years in civil service, he retired in 1856. In the same year he was promoted to State Council. He was available to the Foreign Ministry in an advisory capacity until his death.

Private life

Marriage to a large Württemberg merchant family

Karl von Roser was a Protestant. He married on October 31, 1814 in Berg with Luise Vischer (1796-1841) from Calw , a daughter of Johann Martin Vischer and sister of Emilie Vischer (1799-1881), the wife of Ludwig Uhland . Both sisters are nieces of the member of the state parliament and Stuttgart mayor Willibald Feuerlein . The friends Roser and Uhland were able to arrange it for many years so that their families lived together in one house.

The marriage of Karl von Roser with Luise Roser geb. Vischer's sons Carl , Wilhelm , Gustav and Ludwig were born ; and the daughters Emilie and Luise . The son and pastor Carl was the author of the family tables of the Feuerlein family from 1855 and 1869; the son Wilhelm was professor of surgery at the University of Marburg, the daughter Emilie (1818-1889) married in 1837 the trader and later member of the state parliament Arthur Conradi . A great-great-grandson of Karl von Roser and his wife Luise is the puppeteer Albrecht Roser .

Karl von Roser's scientific research interests, which initially applied to the whole of natural and natural history, were ultimately narrowed down to a sub-area due to lack of time. For over 30 years he was intensively involved in entomology , researching in the field of classifications, metamorphoses and ways of life, and collected preparations of around 20,000 insect species. The bereaved donated parts of the insect collection and the associated library to the natural history collection of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg .

After two strokes in 1859 and in the summer of 1861, the versatile Karl von Roser, who was interested into the last years of his life, died shortly after Christmas 1861.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ V. Insects a) As a foundation. In: Annual notebooks of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg , vol. 29, E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1873, p. 9.
  2. ↑ B. Botanical Collection . a) As a foundation. In: Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg , 29th year, E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1873, p. 13f.
  3. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1831 , p. 32.
  4. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1843 , p. 32.
  5. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogthums Baden 1847 , p. 61.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen Head of the Württemberg Ministry (Department) of Foreign Affairs
1848–1849 		Karl von Waechter-Spittler
personal data
SURNAME Roser, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roser, Karl Ludwig Friedrich; Roser, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaihingen an der Enz
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1861
Place of death Stuttgart