Rudolph Roosen

Rudolph Roosen 1905

Rudolph Roosen (born October 22, 1830 in Hamburg ; † January 7, 1907 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and senator.

Life

Roosen came from an influential Mennonite family who had lived in Altona and Hamburg for several generations . His ancestors were important ship owners and merchants. Roosen's great-grandfather had the company Salomon u. Berend Roosen , in which Roosen was later involved. Like several of his ancestors, Roosen's father was a deacon of the Mennonite community of Altonas . So did his ancestor Gerrit Roosen . In addition to his commercial activity, Roosen was involved in the Hamburg municipal administration and was a member of the building deputation from 1871 to 1881. In 1877 Roosen was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which he belonged until 1890. During his time in the citizenry, Roosen was elected to the finance deputation in 1881, of which he was a member until 1890. With his election to the Hamburg Senate on December 29, 1890 for Emil von Melle , who had resigned, Roosen left the citizenry. Roosen resigned from the Senate at the beginning of 1901 for health reasons, and Heinrich Traun was elected as his successor . In his honor, the Roosen family coat of arms was attached to the Hamburg city hall. It's on the ledge just above the lower first window to the left of the main entrance.

family

The future mayor Max Schramm was Roosen's nephew. Roosen was married to Schramm's mother's sister.

literature

German Gender Book , Volume 18: Hamburg Gender Book, Volume 1, 1910, p. 352

Individual evidence

↑ Roosen is said to have been quite hard of hearing when he was elected to the Senate. When he was so deaf that he could no longer follow Senate meetings, he resigned. See Richard J. Evans : Tod in Hamburg , 1990, p. 48.
^ Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German "Cultural History" in the light of the fate of a Hamburg bourgeois family (1648–1948) . Volume I and II, Göttingen 1963/64; Volume 2, p. 433.

Web links

Family website with family tree and history

personal data
SURNAME	Roosen, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roosen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1907
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Roosen is said to have been quite hard of hearing when he was elected to the Senate. When he was so deaf that he could no longer follow Senate meetings, he resigned. See Richard J. Evans : Tod in Hamburg , 1990, p. 48.

[2] Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German "Cultural History" in the light of the fate of a Hamburg bourgeois family (1648–1948) . Volume I and II, Göttingen 1963/64; Volume 2, p. 433.