Robert Bosse

Robert Bosse as an active member of Corps Suevia Heidelberg, 1851

Robert Bosse

Birthplace of Bosses Klink 10 in Quedlinburg, 2012

Julius Robert Bosse (born July 12, 1832 in Quedlinburg , † July 31, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German politician, most recently Prussian minister of education.

Life

Bosse was born as the third child of the cooper and later brandy distiller Julius Bosse and his wife Dorothea, born in Gernrode am Harz. Sachse was born in Quedlinburg at Klink 10 . He studied law at the universities in Heidelberg , Halle and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1851 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg and Palaiomarchia .

From 1861 to 1868 he was chamber director for Count zu Stolberg- Rossla in Roßla . After working in the provincial administration (1868 bailiff in Uchte , 1870 consistorial councilor, 1872 senior presidential councilor in Hanover, legal advisor of the provincial school council) he was appointed lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of Culture in 1876 and in the Prussian State Ministry in 1878. In 1881 he became director of the newly created social policy department in the Reich Office of the Interior and played a key role in Bismarck's first workers insurance laws, in 1889 Undersecretary of State there, in 1890 State Secretary of the State Council and in 1891 State Secretary of the Reich Justice Office and at the same time chairman of the commission for the new civil code . In retirement he wrote down his memories.

Minister of Education

From March 1892 to September 1899 he was the Prussian minister of education, where he played a major role in the introduction of salary laws for pastors and elementary school teachers, and he introduced heat-free for schools with effect from June 16, 1892 when the temperature was 25 ° C at 10 a.m. passed in the morning.

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family

The Protestant theologian and librarian Friedrich Bosse (1864–1931) was his son.

Robert Bosse died in Berlin in 1901 at the age of 69 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Honors

Bosse is an honorary citizen of his hometown, which also named a street and a square in his honor. In 1908 in Schreiberhau a monument to Bosses created by Gerhard Janensch was unveiled in the park of the German Teacher's Home . In 1890 Robert Bosse was honored with the commentary cross with star of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

plant

• A trip to the Orient. Leipzig 1900.
• From the youth. Berlin 1911.
• Scale lengths and pandects. Hilden 2003, ISBN 3-933892-51-1 .

estate

Bosse left numerous memories, letters and diary entries. The student diaries 1851/52 are in the Federal Archives. For the period 1878–1892, the memories were processed as part of a DFG project:

• Volker Mihr, Florian Tennstedt , Heidi Winter (eds.): Social reform as a civil and Christian duty. Notes, letters and memories of the senior ministerial official Robert Bosse from the time when workers' insurance and the German Civil Code (BGB) were created (1878–1892) . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018793-7 .

literature

• Walter Bussmann:  Bosse, Julius Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 484 ( digitized version ).
• Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia in Heidelberg. 3. Edition. (Members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 421.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 21 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Erich Kramer: The "bosses". Contribution to the history of a Mansfeld knight dynasty and its clan group . Reprint from the original sentence of the German Gender Book. Glücksburg 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 121, 471; 103, 57
2. ↑ On Bosse's socio-political activities cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February Decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890), Volumes 1 to 7; ibid, III. Department: Development and Differentiation of Social Policy since the Beginning of the New Course (1890–1904), Volumes 1 to 7.
3. ↑ Cancellation of afternoon classes due to the heat . In: Ministry of ecclesiastical, teaching = and medical = matters (ed.): Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia . No. 9/10 . Weidmann, Berlin 1892, p. 622 f . ( dipf.de ).
4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, p. 300.
5. ^ Academic monthly books. 25 (1908/09), p. 194.
6. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1896, p. 45.
7. ^ Corps newspaper of Altmärker-Masuren 54 and 61, Kiel 1974 and 1977.

Web links

Commons : Robert Bosse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Robert Bosse in the catalog of the German National Library
• Encounters between a Quedlinburg resident and a night watchman
• Obituary in the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, vol. 6 (1901), p. 378.