Heinrich Christian Carl August man, call captain rose (* 10. June 1816 in Helmstedt, "† supposed as emigrant in the United States of America) be a well-known German robber in braunschweigisch Prussian border area in the first half the 19. Century.

Origin

As an illegitimate son of its verwitweten nut/mother Johanna Elizabeth rose it was led in the court records under the surname barrier man. The father remained unknown. Before this background Carl barrier man remained refused in the time at that time the possibility of a professional training.

Life

Into the 1830er and at the beginning of the 1840er years drove Carl barrier man, called rose, in the Helmstedter area its nuisance. It made the close process of the border between the duchy Braunschweig and the Prussian province Saxonia too uses oneself, in which it extracted itself from the respective prosecution authorities by an escape over the border. Since 1834 he was obviously leader of the gang already existing. That interaction-ends author circle here had predominantly an age between 20 and 30 years, which lived under unfavorable social and economical conditions. Rose and its gang are to be added to a modern criminal type; thus or brutality were avoided against persons. In the place of the force was in demand more cunning and skill. The gang member Eduard Stodtmeister had itself as if forgingassociated specialized to use his learned handicraft relevantly and to open also the most complicated locks. Therefore rose is to be regarded successful" gang of thieves actually not as a robber in the conventional sense, but rather as a leader of one very much to ".

In view of its attention and the boldness of its acts rose in the people astonishment and admiration aroused exciting thefts. That could be done so far that its acts in the people excessive quantity were compared admiringly with those of a Robin Hood. The local police force was endowed frequently with mockery verses. It attributed utterance "the Rieken nehm ick"´t, the arms jew ick"´t!" had together with the reality however little. Noble-mindedly it appeared rarely. The victims were predominantly wealthy (property goods, buyers, higher officials), but against the representation "small people" were also not spared. Also several church break-downs were to be registered.

In the following a short excerpt of its extensive break-down series:

• 1835 robbed the gang the provisional Gruft of the Prussian general field marshal August count Neidhardt von Gneisenau in the village church from Wormsdorf
• Christmas 1840 was accomplished a dreister and successful break-down with a wealthy Helmstedter brewing master, without the present family members this noticed
• the DEPOSIT box in the Helmstedter district court was expenditure-robbed from 1840 and 1842
• 1841 took place a break-down into the village church from bad village
• he stole valuable pieces of clothing of the Vorsteherin of the lady pin to 1841 in the monastery Marienberg
• 1842 fallow it repeat unnoticed into the Helmstedter customs office

The Hehler were settled outside of Helmstedts in Magdeburg, guard putting, Weferlingen, count refuge. The majority of the booty was deposited however in Harbke with the gang member and baker master Carl Bokelberg, whose sister was associated with rose.

After Denunziation in the summer 1841 several arrests, in addition, successful escape attempts of the robber captain took place. As place of refuge frequently the border forest served Lappwald. On its seizure meanwhile 100 Taler were exposed to reward. On 10 February 1843 rose in Harbke in the house of its friend Friederike Bokelberg was finally arrested. In the autumn 1845 upper court in the process took place before the Herzoglichen. Rose put a comprehensive confession down. The process was not less comprehensive, because with it 52 accomplices were nevertheless complained, to who 126 criminal offences - predominantly gang thefts - were put to the load. On 23 December 1845 the judgement was announced. Carl barrier man, called rose, received 15 years penintentiary. In the year 1848 an amnesty took place via the Braunschweiger duke William as well as its deportation into the United States from America. One availed oneself at that time gladly of the comparatively economical obligation emigration to North America, in order to get rid of of incorrigible habit-criminal. The public hand carried the travel expenses.

Over Roses fate in the new world is delivered to nothing else.

A certain admiration of the rose remained preserved in the population of the region concerned nevertheless. Its acts clarified and already after short time climbed rather positive legends around its criminal past.

The figure of the robber captain rose served some time as advertising emblem of the tourist association Elm Lappwald.

Literature

• Joachim training man: Gangs of robbers between resin and Weser, 1. Aufl. 2004, P. 230-233, ISBN 3-9803642-4-0
• Hans honouring hard Mueller: Helmstedt - the history of a German city, 2. Aufl. 2004, P. 640-645
• Mechthilde Wiswe: Social reality and myth - a Helmstedter gang of burglars around 1840. In: Braunschweigi yearbook volume 74, P. 129-146, Braunschweig 1993

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