Paul Rocke

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Paul Rocke (* 2. February 1870 in Delitzsch , † 21st May 1936 in Hamburg ) was a German general counsel , economists , bank manager , headmaster , lecturer , and nonfiction - author .

Life

Paul Rocke grew up in the early days of the German Empire . After his schooling, he studied the subjects of law and economics in Leipzig at the local university , where he initially 1893 the graduation to the Dr. jur. and then in 1894 to Dr. phil. completed. He then worked as a lawyer at the Minden Chamber of Commerce .

"Return from the Imperial Parade in 1907";
Photo from the book Memories of the Imperial Days in Hanover August 26-29, 1907 published by Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei

From 1895-1920 Paul Rocke was about a quarter century in Hannover as general counsel at the local Chamber of Commerce operates. At times parallel to this, he also worked for two decades from 1900 to 1920 as a lawyer at the Hanover stock exchange . In addition, from 1901 to 1914 he was the managing director of the Hanover Industry Club . During this time, Rocke also completed his habilitation in 1904 for legal and administrative studies at the Hanover Technical University , where he also taught as a private lecturer until 1908.

Palais Simon with inscriptions Handels-Kammer Hannover and Handels- u. Industry Museum . Photo postcard c. 1919; Original in the Hanover Historical Museum

Already before the turn of the century Rocke had given a lecture at the negotiations of the General Assembly of the Verein für Socialpolitik 1899 in Breslau about the great fascination of modern department stores and the new "giant quantities" that came with them.

From 1905 until 1924 Paul Rocke was a member of the Insurance Advisory Board at the Reich Supervisory Office for Private Insurance. In addition, from 1906 to 1920 he was on the board of the Trade and Industry Museum in Hanover, which he founded .

After the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , in a debate on October 31, 1919, the Hanoverian city director Robert Leinert was able to cite the Chamber of Commerce syndic "as key witness " for the incorporation of the industrial city of Linden into the city of Hanover: Rocke had said, the long overdue incorporation would only have been prevented by a "historical communal despotism that was eliminated by the state upheaval of last November".

From 1920 until 1935 Paul Rocke headed the Deutsche Sparkasse School as its director of studies. During this time, in 1922, he wrote a legal and political dissertation at the University of Hamburg under the title The Modern Development of the Savings Banks System, with special emphasis on the province of Hanover and the neighboring areas . In addition to his function as director of studies, Paul Rocke worked temporarily from 1923 to 1925 as director of the Kreissparkasse Linden-Hannover .

Paul Rocke died in Hamburg on May 21, 1936.

Fonts (selection)

  • Paul Rocke, Lorenz Glier: On the question of the establishment of a commercial college in Hanover , [o. O., o. D.]
  • The Reich Law on the Fineness of Gold and Silver Goods of July 16, 1884. Received by P. Rocke, Dr. jur. u. phil., Syndikus zu Hannover (= library of the Handels-Zeitung for the entire watch industry , issue 2), Leipzig: Diebener, 1896
  • Standard gauge or narrow gauge? Rinteln or Vlotho? A contribution to the Lippe Railway plans , Hanover: Chamber of Commerce, [1905]
  • Paul Rocke, Hermann Limburg: What every businessman should know about the insurance industry , Hanover: Self-published, 1906
  • About collective bargaining communities. Lecture given ... on September 17, 1906 ... , Leipzig: Diebener, [1906]
  • The Uelzen-Dannenberg railway project , Hanover: Riemschneider, 1907
  • Memories of the imperial days in Hanover August 26-29, 1907. With illustrations and an introduction, compiled by Rocke , Hanover: Göhmann, 1907
  • A proposal to regulate the production and trade of salt in the German Empire. Memorandum on behalf of the German Saltworks Association , Hanover: Göhmann, (1910)
  • Spar correspondence. Published on behalf of the German Savings Banks Association by Dr. [Paul] Rocke , Hanover: Göhmann, 1912
  • 50 years Hanover Chamber of Commerce
    • Reprint of chapters 1 and 2 of the 1917 edition / written by Paul Rocke, Hannover: Verlag der Handelskammer zu Hannover, [1957]
  • 25 years of the Hannoverscher Sparkassen-Verband , Hanover: Hannoverscher Sparkassen-Verband, 1913
  • The continental barrier. Memories and comparisons with today , from: Der Weltmarkt , born 1919, Hanover: JC König & Ebhardt, [1919]
  • For information and career advice on commercial apprenticeship. Chamber of Commerce in Hanover , Hanover: Chamber of Commerce, [1919]
  • Saving and savings banks in the mirror of economics , Hanover: Sparkasse book and form sales Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei, 1922; contents
  • The modern development of the savings bank system with special consideration of the province of Hanover and the adjacent areas , law and political science dissertation 1922 at the University of Hamburg, with title page, table of contents and curriculum vitae, Hamburg 1923
  • Recommended books for official use and the professional and professional training of Sparkasse and municipal bank officials / Compiled and briefly marked by Paul Rocke, Hanover: Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei, [1923] with the help of teachers from the Deutsche Sparkasse School Hanover
  • Pictures from a German village. Described on behalf of Sparkasse Scheessel (Hanover) on the occasion of its 50th anniversary , Hanover: Göhmann, 1926
  • Jakob Cremer , Paul Rocke: Guide for Board Members of Public Savings Banks , ed. With the consent of the Committee for the Savings Banks at the German Savings Banks and Giro Association in Berlin, Berlin SO 36, Köpenicker Str. 178/179: Buchkunst, 1931
    • in the 2nd, expanded and improved edition, Berlin: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag [SW 19, Friedrichsgracht 42/45], [1932]

Archival material

Archival material by and about Paul Rocke can be found, for example

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Rocke, Paul , in ders .: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 10, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Munich: KG Saur, 2008, ISBN 978-3- 598-25040-8 , p. 462; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Albert Lefèvre: 100 years of Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mission and fulfillment. 1866–1966 , Wiesbaden: baco - Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik H. Bartels KG, printed by H. Osterwald Hannover, [1966], p. 264
  3. ↑ oV : der-club / historie / geschaeftsfuehrer on the page industrieclub-hannover.de [ undated ], last accessed on December 20, 2017
  4. ^ Gudrun M. König : Consumer culture - staged world of goods around 1900 , Vienna; Cologne; Weimar: Böhlau, 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-77661-1 , p. 96; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Hanover in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism 1918-1945 , in Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein : History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft , 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 ; Pp. 405-579; here: SS 484; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  7. ↑ Compare the information in the database of the Kalliope network
personal data
SURNAME Rock, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, economist, bank manager, school principal, private lecturer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1936
Place of death Hamburg