Johannes Rösing

Johannes Rösing (5 May 1833 Bremen - 8 April 1909 Berlin) was a German lawyer, editor and diplomat.

Family

John IV. Rösing was the son of the textile and banker and politician Johannes Rösing (1793-1862). With the Bremen citizenship, John III. Rösing had radical democratic ideas, so the family went to Paris in 1842 to escape further political chicanery in Bremen. Two years later, the family returned.

In 1864 he married Clara von Ammon in Cologne (1843-1931); they had nine children.

Studies

John IV. Rösing first attended the Gymnasium there, changed the school again, and passed the matriculation examination at the gymnasium Osnabrück in 1852. He then studied law at the University of Heidelberg, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen. In Göttingen he joined the Burschenschaft Hannovera, to which he remained lifelong member. In Heidelberg, he also developed a lifelong friendship with Magnus von Wedderkop. After graduation as Dr. jur., he was a lawyer in Bremen. At the same time, he worked on the liberal Weser newspaper.

Career

In 1861 he entered the diplomatic service of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and became a diplomatic agent of the Hanseatic cities as an attaché of the Bremen Legation in Washington, D. C. In the spring of 1863 he represented the three north German Hanseatic cities at the First World Post Conference in Paris.

He soon became a leader of the Hanseatic Legation in Washington, D.C. and tried to expand the trade relations between the United States and the German Hanseatic cities. In 1868 he was appointed Consul General of the North German Confederation and in 1871 the German Reich in New York. In 1874 he entered the Reichskanzleramt as a leading councilor under the auspices of the Privy Council of the Upper Austrian Government. He was one of the few officials in this function who did not come from the Prussian ministry.

After the establishment of the Reichsamt of the Interior in 1880 and the transfer of tasks from the Reichskanzleramt to the new authority, Rösing was transferred to the Central Department of this office, but retained a substantial part of his previous tasks. This included the negotiation of friendship, trade, naval and consular treaties between the German Reich and foreign states (see, for example, the agreement with the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands from 1879, RGB, 1880, p ). At the same time he was chairman of the Technical Commission for Maritime Navigation from 1877 to 1897.

In 1892, Emperor Wilhelm II appointed him to serve as chairman of the Reichsinvalidenfonds. This authority was also responsible for the administration of the fund for the construction of the Reichstag building. Johannes Rösing, who held the rank of a councillor of first class, retired at his own request in 1903.

Prior to the awarding of the Red Eagle Order, he was offered the Black Eagle Order, to which the hereditary nobility was connected, and also for his children. He refused, on the grounds that his children should make something of themselves.

Prussian Red Eagle Ornaments 2nd class with oak leaves
Order of the Kingdom of Württemberg
Order of the Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse Kalakaua
Order 2nd Class of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands
a rescue boat of the DGzRS in the name "DR. JOHANNES RÖSING ", which was used in Bremerhaven from 1933 to 1943 and then in Travemünde until 1949.