Richard Roesicke

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Richard Roesicke (born July 24, 1845 in Berlin ; † July 21, 1903 ) was a German entrepreneur and politician .

family

Richard Adolph Maximilian Karl Roesicke was the eldest son of the textile merchant Friedrich Julius Adolf Roesicke (1817–1886), co-owner of the well-known Berlin linen shop Goschenhofer & Roesicke, and Pauline Goschenhofer. One of his brothers was Gustav Roesicke (1856–1924) , a member of the Reichstag . His son was the chemist Adolf Roesicke .

Life

Roesicke attended the French grammar school in Berlin from 1856 to 1861 and then completed a commercial apprenticeship as a cloth merchant in Frankfurt am Main , which he completed in 1864. In the same year his father bought the Berlin Schultheiss brewery for 210,000 thalers, transferred part of the shares to his son and appointed him commercial manager of the still handicraft-based company. In 1867 Roesicke became a co-owner of the company and began to expand it into a large industrial company. He moved production to the storage cellar location at Schönhauser Allee 39, where he acquired several adjacent properties in 1868. In the following years, a modern production complex with new technology (steam operation, refrigeration system) was built there, which was completely redesigned from 1887 to 1907 by the architect Franz Schwechten and a bar was added. The site is now a listed building and is used as a cultural brewery in a variety of ways.

Roesicke hereditary funeral

In 1871 Roesicke converted the Schultheiss brewery into a stock corporation with a share capital of 900,000 marks and went public. In the same year the share capital was increased to 1,500,000 marks, taking advantage of the start-up boom . With the money he raised, Roesicke expanded the production facility in Schönhauser Allee and acquired other breweries, in 1891 the Berlin brewery Tivoli in Kreuzberg ) (Department II) and in 1896 the “Zum Waldschlösschen” brewery in Dessau (Department III). Another large production complex of the Schultheiss brewery was built in Dessau in the following years. This made the Schultheiss brewery the largest brewery in Germany and held this position until the end of the Second World War. In 1883 Roesicke was one of the main initiators in founding the experimental and teaching institute for breweries .

In 1893/94 Roesicke had a representative country house built in a 4.5 hectare park area in Potsdam . The architect of the Villa Luisenhof, now a listed building, at Templiner Strasse 21, named after Roesicke's wife, was also Franz Schwechten.

Roesicke also took care of the social issues of the employees, including through a company accident insurance. From 1890 to 1898 he was chairman of the association of professional associations . From 1886 to 1893 he was a deputy non-permanent member of the Reich Insurance Office .

Roesicke died on July 21, 1903 at the age of almost 58 from the consequences of a serious operation. He found his final resting place in a mausoleum designed by Franz Schwechten in 1886 on the St. Petri Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

MP

From 1890 to 1903 Roesicke was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Anhalt  1 (Dessau, Zerbst), which he won four times in a row (1890, 1893, 1898 and 1903). Roesicke was initially non-attached, but joined the Liberal Association at the turn of the century . Roesicke was no longer able to take his seat in the 11th Reichstag because he died a few weeks after his election on July 21, 1903, three days before his 58th birthday. In the by-election, his party colleague Karl Schrader won the mandate.

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  1. ↑ See collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 2, The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2009, pp. 1, 4–7, 50, 58, 60, 69–71, 76, 85, 87, 137, 139 f., 173, 176, 195 f., 200, 210, 212, 223, 259 f., 265, 287, 333, 350, 372, 383-388, 390, 400, 402 f., 415-418, 493, 507-510, 512 f., 515-520, 527-529, 539.
  2. ↑ See his election speech to workers in Dessau. In: Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 1, Basic Questions of Social Policy , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2016, No. 27,
  3. ↑ For the individual elections see Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates. 2nd half band. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 1446-1451.
personal data
SURNAME Roesicke, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (NLP, FVg), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1903