Victor Röhrich

Victor Röhrich as a member of the Prussian constituent assembly, 1919

Victor Röhrich (born July 27, 1862 in Mehlsack , Braunsberg district , East Prussia ; † June 27, 1925 in Braunsberg , East Prussia) was a German historian , university professor and politician during the Weimar Republic as a member of the Center Party .

Life and work

Victor Röhrich was born as one of six children of Mehlsacker painter, saddler and saddler Franz Röhrich and his wife Rosa born. Klingenberg born. After attending the Catholic boys' school from 1868 to 1874 in Mehlsack and from 1874 to 1876 an upscale school in the same place, Victor Röhrich was a student at the Braunsberg grammar school (Lyceum Hosianum) from 1876 to 1882 . He then studied history and German at the University of Breslau (from 1882 to 1884) and at the Albertus University of Königsberg (from 1884 to 1886). In 1886 he received his doctorate in Königsberg (Prussia) with summa cum laude as Dr. phil. After the candidate period in Tilsit and Königsberg (Prussia) he was employed as a scientific assistant teacher in Rößel in Warmia from 1889 to 1890 , then at the same place from 1891 to 1894 as a senior teacher. In 1887 he passed the state examination " pro facultate docendi ". It was a forerunner of the later state examination (see Wikipedia article New Humanism ). From 1894 worked as Röhrich first extraordinary , two years later than ordinary university professor of history at the Faculty of Arts at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg , from the Royal (until 1918), then State Academy Braunsberg emerged. From October 1908 to 1911 he was rector of this academy. In 1910 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. On September 30, 1916, he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor by the Prussian King .

Victor Röhrich emerged primarily as a historian. He was chairman of the Association for the History and Archeology of Warmia . His research and publications concerned East Prussia and especially the Catholic Warmia . He has published treatises, essays and the publication of source writings on Prussian-Ermland history.

Victor Röhrich was unmarried.

politics

Röhrich was a member of the Center Party and chairman of this party in Braunsberg .

Röhrich was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly (sometimes also called the constituent Prussian national assembly), the forerunner of the Prussian state parliament from 1919 to 1921. As a member of the Center Party, according to the parliamentary group's meeting minutes, he was little active. In the obituary written by Franz Buchholz , there was talk of poor health and frustration with politics. In 1914 he was one of the co-signers of the Declaration of University Professors in the German Empire .

Publications

• Adolf I., Archbishop of Cologne. Ermländischen Zeitungs- und Verlagsdr., Braunsberg 1886, also: Dissertation, University of Königsberg, 1886
• A peasant revolt in Warmia (1440–1442) . Rössel 1894. 16 p. (Rössel Gymnasium program.) From: Rössel Gymnasium program 1892.
• Warmia in the Thirteen Years City War. In: Magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia. Volume XI, 1895, pp. 161-260
• The dispute over the Warmia cathedra after the death of Bishop Heinrich Wogenap. 1908
• The accounts of the parish church in Mehlsack from the years 1639–1685. 1913
• The weight certificate for the bakers in the old town of Braunsberg from 1670. 1918
• as publisher : Bibliotheca Warmiensis or literary history of Warmia. Volume IV: Sources on the cultural and economic history of Warmia. Hans Grimme, Braunsberg 1915, 2nd issue 1916, 3rd issue 1918
• History of the Principality of Warmia. 1925 ( digitized version )
• The settlement of the Warmia with special consideration of the origin of the settlers . In: Franz Buchholz : The apprenticeship and wandering years of the Warmian cathedral curator Eustachius v. Knobelsdorff . T. 2, Braunsberg 1925
• with Franz Liedke, Hans Schmauch (ed.): Codex diplomaticus Warmiensis or Regesten and documents on the history of Warmia . total u. in the. Name of the Historical Association for Warmia . Braunsberg 1935, self-published d. Association

literature

• August Plate : Handbook for the constituent Prussian state assembly , preliminary edition from March 1919. Preußische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1919, p. 94.
• August Plate : Portraits of the members of the constituent Prussian National Assembly , preliminary edition from March 1919. Greve, Berlin 1919, p. 36.
• August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg , Wilfried Loth (editor): The center faction in the constituent Prussian state assembly 1919–1921, meeting minutes. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994.
• Roehrich, Viktor. In: Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications. Volume: Raab - Rzepecki. Giessen University Library, 2007, p. 230, ( digitized version )
• Franz Buchholz : Privy Councilor Dr. Victor Röhrich in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands, Volume 22, Issue 1–3, Pages 280–307, Braunsberg 1926

Web links

• Literature by and about Victor Röhrich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Roehrich, Viktor. In: Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications. Volume: Raab - Rzepecki. Giessen University Library, 2007, p. 230, ( digitized version )
2. ↑ August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg and Wilfried Loth (editors): The center faction in the Prussian state constitution-making assembly 1912–1921, meeting minutes.
3. ^ Franz Buchholz: "Privy Councilor Dr. Victor Röhrich" (obituary) in the magazine for the history and archeology of Ermland, 22nd volume, 1926, pages 280–307 ( digitized version )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Victor Röhrich in the hbz union catalog - general catalog