Ludwig Roloff

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Ludwig Roloff (* December 12, 1814 in Mirow ; † June 22, 1905 there ; full name: Ludwig Christian Friedrich Roloff ) was a German educator, journalist and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives .

Life

Ludwig Rolof was born as the son of the baker Christian Daniel Roloff and his wife Frederika Marie Elisabeth, geb. Chute. He attended the large city school in Neubrandenburg and graduated from high school here in 1834. He then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn , where he was a fellow student of Gottfried Kinkel . From 1837 Roloff first worked as a tutor in Mirow and Sukow . In 1840 he became principal of the Mirow market town school.

Roloff was one of the leading democrats in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz part of the state during the Mecklenburg Revolution (1848) and took part in the first state-wide meeting of reform associations in Güstrow in April. He was one of the founders of the Mirow Choir , which still exists today under the name of the Mirow Men's Choir in 1848 . As a substitute for Friedrich Genzken , he briefly took over his mandate in the Frankfurt National Assembly in September 1848 . In October 1848 he was elected to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz / Stargardischer Kreis 4: Mirow as a member of the Mecklenburg parliament. Here he joined the faction of the reform associations, the left and was a member of the constitutional committee. Even after the message from his Grand Duke Georg von Mecklenburg-Strelitz to the assembly on August 11, 1849, with which he broke off negotiations on a joint constitution from the Mecklenburg-Strelitz side, he remained in the assembly like the other members of the left this existed.

When he demonstratively named his boat after Friedrich Hecker in 1849 , it led to a scandal in Mirow. From the end of August 1849, Roloff was ostracized as headmaster of the school in Mirow because of his political views and gave up his office on January 1, 1850 after the collapse of the democratic movement in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. From Karl Türk he received an invitation to the Braunschweig Democrats' Congress on 13-15. June 1850, in which he did not take part. In the course of the high treason trial in Rostock, his house was also searched in 1853, but no charges were brought. He continued to live as a private in Mirow.

Together with Daniel Sanders and Karl Petermann , Roloff was editor of the democratic papers for free people (1848) that appeared in Neustrelitz .

Roloff had been with Auguste Sophie Caroline, born in 1871. Aepinus (* 1838), the daughter of a house owner in Mirowdorf. So far, one son has become known who died as a child.

literature

  • Klaus Lüders: Roloff, Ludwig Christian Friedrich. In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 4 (2004). ISBN 3-7950-3741-7 , pp. 220-221
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8300 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical representation, 1850, p. 63