Placidus Rogg

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Placidus Joseph Ludwig Johann Nepomuk Xaver Maximin Rogg (* February 14, 1769 in Frauenfeld ; † May 6, 1830 ibid) was a Swiss mayor , government councilor , delegate of the diaries and an officer in the Dutch service.

biography

Placidus Rogg was a son of Mayor Joseph Nikolaus Maximin Rogg (1741–1795) and Maria Anna Elisabetha von Meyenberg (1739–1821). A direct ancestor of his was the mayor Johann Conrad Rogg . He attended the law faculty in Strasbourg. In 1794 he married Anna Margaretha von Meyenberg (1772–1794). As a culturally open-minded and musically interested man, he was very socially recognized.

In 1788 he was appointed a rural woman from Thurgau , in 1792 he replaced his relative Joseph Leontius Dominik Ferdinand Rogg (1745–1799, the father of the later government councilor Joseph Dominik Rogg ), who rose to the Small Council , as town clerk . From 1794 to 1798 he was mayor and then governor of the Frauenfeld district and deputy of the Thurgau governor . In 1798 he was granted a patent as lieutenant colonel and commander of the 1st Thurgau extract. 1805-1811 he held the rank of first general inspector of the cantonal militia. 1803-1815 he took a seat in the Grand Council as well as in the Small Council, where the departments of justice, police and military were entrusted to him. In 1813 he was appointed to the Thurgau parliamentary delegation and in 1814 to the constitutional commission.

In 1815 he retired from his political offices, handed over his seat of government to his relative Joseph Dominik Rogg and followed a call abroad by working as a lieutenant colonel and military instructor in the Dutch service from 1815 to 1820.

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  1. ^ S. Hausmann: The Swiss Students at the old University of Strasbourg, in: Journal for Swiss History, 8th year, Zurich 1928; P. 84
  2. Verena Baumer-Müller: Genealogical notes from the estate of Prof. Dr. Albert Büchi in the Rogg family archive in Friborg