Friedrich Ludwig von Rönne
Friedrich Ludwig von Ronne ( born November 27, 1798 in Seestermühle by Uetersen, † April 7, 1865 in Berlin) was a Prussian jurist, diplomat and German politicians.
Early life
Ronne was the son of Hofgerichtsassessors and later a member of the Holstein government Johann Georg von Ronne. One brother was the future lawyer and politician Ludwig von Ronne. Ronne attended high school in Gluckstadt. But he also received private lessons in Berlin from later politician and law professor Karl Twesten.
Friedrich Ludwig von Ronne entered is not even 16 years old in the German Legion and participated in the Battle of Waterloo. Later, he studied law in Kiel and Berlin.
In 1820 he entered the Prussian judicial service. In 1825 he was High Court Judge in Hamm. There he wrote a thesis on the cleveland - Brandenburg marital community of property. In 1828 he moved to the Court of Appeal to Berlin. During this time he presented a revision of the system of the Prussian civil law. He himself was responsible for the first band, his brother Ludwig took over the second band. In 1831 he became the administrative services and worked with the government in Potsdam. Ronne proved in customs and trade affairs but also in constitutional and international legal issues to be knowledgeable and was promoted by Minister Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon.
Ambassador in Washington
Ronne was therefore 1834 Minister Resident (ie Ambassador ) of Prussia in the United States with headquarters in Washington. In this office he was replaced in 1844 by Friedrich von Gerolt. In the United States he became familiar in particular with the local trade conditions by extensive travel. He also tried to take care of the German immigrants. It did not succeed him a commercial treaty between the German Customs Union and the United States to bring into existence. He, however, succeeded in extending the trade agreement the United States with the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Hamburg. His reputation in the United States was so great that the government of the Union itself asked him in 1839 by Prussia as an arbitrator in a dispute with Mexico. A war could not be avoided through the mediation of Rönnes. Later he was also involved in a dispute between England and France to the rubber trade in Senegal.
Head of the Prussian trade ministry
In Prussia, business representatives called for the establishment of a Department of Commerce and argued for Ronne as a ladder. In a memorandum to Ronne argued for a right to the king under -standing trade department with a close contact with the traders. This suggestion met with resistance in the government. King Frederick William IV had yet to create a him directly subordinate commercial and industrial authority as a leader. But you did not mean the Ministry of Commerce but trade office. Ronne became president of the new body with the rank of First Class Council. At the same time he was appointed a member of the State Council. However, he failed because of the resistance of the bureaucracy and a significant efficacy could not unfold the office. When, after the March Revolution in Berlin, a Commerce Department was created, the line did not fall to Ronne.
National Assembly and Messenger
Ronne was in 1848 elected to the National Assembly in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt, he was a member of the Casino Group. Ronne was chairman of the economic committee. In a memorandum he tried to make the lessons learned in the United States for German conditions available. His ideas were incorporated into the economic parts of the constitution.
In the same year it went as envoy extraordinary to the provisional central government and since 1849 also as an envoy of the Regent Archduke Johann of Austria back to Washington. Again he took advantage of his stay for in-depth studies and even planned to write a history of the U.S. Constitution. It came about not for reasons of health. But he was involved in internal political disputes of the Union as regards the introduction of paper money was compulsory.
After the end of the central power of the Prussian government refused under Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Brandenburg from the Please Rönnes to leave him as Prussian ambassador in the United States. The reason she stated that he would have accepted the Sent items without the approval of the Prussian government. At his own request Ronne 1857 retired.
Prussian deputy
After the beginning of the new era, he became in 1858 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. He was a liberal and a member of the Old Liberal Group of Georg von Vincke. In numerous debates Ronne has been involved. Since 1862 he was a member of the Progress Party. He was one of the most important members of the party. He stood on a rather right wing. The constitutional conflict Ronne stood with his party in opposition to the government. In 1863, he spoke in favor of the independence of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Again and again he pleaded as a friend of the Polish nation and criticized the directional of Prussia against the Polish uprising agreement with Russia.
Basically, he was opposed to the thesis that German unity was to be postponed until after the creation of a liberal Prussian government. At the same time he was skeptical that a government under Otto von Bismarck would make a national policy.