August Rühl

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August Rühl

Johann Adam August Rühl (born February 19, 1815 in Hanau ; † July 20, 1850 in Arolsen ) was a German politician in the Electorate of Hesse.

Life

Rühl was the son of the cantor and secondary school teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Rühl and his wife Maria Petronelle geb. Limp.

Rühl studied law from 1832 to 1837 at the University of Jena , the Philipps University of Marburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . In 1832 he became a member of the old Marburg fraternity . He was a member of the Marburg Corps Hanovia, Teutonia and Marcomannia and the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . At Markomannia, he was in contact with Friedrich Stegmann and Hermann Wolff von Gudenberg . He then did his preparatory service at the Hanau District Court . Even then, he criticized the fact that in administration it is not the ability that counts, but the political compliance. He then changed in 1838, initially as a commercial employee and later as a partner in the tobacco processing factory of Pedro Jung in Hanau. In 1843 he started his own business in the same branch. At the age of 35 he was killed in a riding accident.

Rühl was married to Janni Josephine Georgine Natalie geb. Weigel. From this marriage came among others Franz Rühl (born October 26, 1845 in Hanau, † July 3, 1915 in Jena), professor of ancient history at the Albertus University of Königsberg .

politics

In the 1840s he began to be politically active in a liberal sense, especially for German Catholicism . As part of the March Revolution in Hanau, a “People's Commission” was formed at his suggestion, which de facto took over government authority. In February 1848 he was one of the authors of a petition from the citizens of Hanau to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . The petition raised calls for freedom of the press , the release of the Conservative Ministry, amnesty for political prisoners and other political changes. These demands were initially rejected by the elector. The citizens of Hanau then elected a committee to which Rühl also belonged, which presented the same demands - now formulated as the ultimate call for political change - in the Hanau ultimatum of March 9, 1848 to the elector in Kassel , who then gave in to revolutionary pressure. These events also meant that the elector had to admit a liberal March government . The Lord Mayor of Hanau , Bernhard Eberhard , also a member of the People's Commission and signatory of the ultimatum, was entrusted with forming a government and at the same time appointed Minister of the Interior of the Hessian March government. He died in a riding accident after taking a spa stay on the return journey from Bad Arolsen .

In March 1848, Rühl was elected by an overwhelming majority to succeed Eberhard as Lord Mayor of Hanau. He also received such a majority (9,877 of 11,605 votes) in the constituency of Hanau in the election for the Frankfurt National Assembly . After participating in the pre-parliament , he was also a member of the parliament from May 18, 1848 until the end of the rump parliament on June 18, 1849, where he first joined the Deutscher Hof faction under the leadership of Robert Blum , then the radical Donnersberg faction under Arnold Ruge and later belonged to the Central March Association . In the rump parliament he was a member of the fifties committee for the implementation of the Paulskirche constitution . He voted against a Prussian hereditary emperor as well as against Archduke Johann as imperial administrator . After the end of the revolution, he was offered mandates both in the Erfurt Union Parliament and in the Kurhessische Estates Assembly . However, he refused and concentrated on his role as Lord Mayor of Hanau. In 1849 Rühl became a member of the Association to Support and Elevate the Democratic Press . In 1850 he took part in a meeting of democratic politicians in Switzerland.

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 287.
  • Martin Hoppe : August Rühl - author of the "Hanauer Ultimatum". In: Stadtzeit (1998). History magazine on the occasion of the 150 years of revolution and gymnastics movement Hanau 1848 - 1998, p. 99ff.
  • Rainer Koch (Ed.): The Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. An encyclopedia of the members of the German Constituent Assembly. Kelkheim 1989, ISBN 3-923420-10-2 , page 348.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 138.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112/385, 159/3, 163/9, 166/105
  3. ↑ Hoppe, p. 100, is based on his sole authorship.
personal data
SURNAME Rühl, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rühl, Johann Adam August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Hesse politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1850
Place of death Arolsen