Hugo Roeloffs
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Hugo Roeloffs | |
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| Born | 2 May 1844 |
| Died | 25 May 1928 (aged 84) |
| Occupations | Civil servant & Syndicus |
| Political party | Nonpartisan |
Hugo Amandus Roeloffs (1844 –1928), was a Syndicus of the Senate of Hamburg.
Roeloffs was born on 2 May 1844 in Hamburg, then an independent free city and member of the German Confederation. He grew up in Hamburg and had to leave school at the age of 13 to contribute to the family's livelihood. During the economic crisis of 1857 he became a clerk in the law firm Dres. Albrecht & G. Hertz.[1]
From 1861, Roeoffs was a court recorder at the Hamburg Commercial Court under Johannes Versmann, who had been elected to the Hamburg Senate the same year. In 1864, when Versmann was President of the Deputation for Indirect Taxes and Duties, he offered to Roeloffs the post of interim customs guard and excise-guard, which Roeloffs accepted. Roeloffs quickly became the expert on tax issues in the Hamburg State Administration and belonged to the Deputation until his retirement in 1913.[2]
Customs issues
In the constitutional negotiations of the North German Federation, Roeloffs was appointed as an advisor to Senator Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer for the issue of exclusions from the German Customs Union. Roeloffs was considered to be economically educated, since he was in the years 1864 to 1868 listener to the public lectures of Adolf Soetbeer and Ludwig Aegidi in Hamburg.
From 1870, Roeloffs became one of Versmann's closest associates. He accompanied Versmann in all negotiations regarding customs issues. In 1880, he was appointed First Secretary of the Deputation for Indirect Taxes.
