Edmund Rau

Edmund Rau (born January 4, 1868 in Dobel , † May 4, 1953 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer. He made a career as a civil servant in the Württemberg civil service. In 1924 he was temporarily acting president of the free people's state of Württemberg .

Life

Rau came as the youngest of ten children of the Protestant pastor Karl Gottlieb David Rau (1815–1883) and his wife Maria Sophie Rau, née. Briefly (1830–1898) in Dobel to the world. He attended the elementary school in Warmbronn and the grammar school in Leonberg . From 1887 to 1891 he studied economics in Tübingen and then law from 1890. During his studies he became a member of the Ghibellinia Tübingen Landsmannschaft . From 1893 to 1897 he was employed in various offices in the city of Stuttgart and in Blaubeuren and in April 1897 he became an official in Stuttgart. From 1901 Rau was Ministerial Secretary in the Royal Württemberg Department of the Interior , from 1902 to 1906 Oberamtmann in Oberamt Tettnang and from 1906 again Ministerialassessor in the Interior Ministry in Stuttgart. In 1907 he became the office director and in 1909 lecturer council. In January 1918 he was entrusted with the exercise of the business of a permanent councilor of the State Ministry and on November 6, 1918, shortly before the outbreak of the revolution, he was appointed "Real State Councilor and Permanent Councilor of the State Ministry".

On November 25, 1918, he took over the business as ministerial director in the new Württemberg Ministry of Food. From 1923 to 1924 Rau was a minister in the Ministry of Labor and Food. On April 8, 1924 he was elected President of Württemberg (on call) to succeed Johannes von Hieber . At the same time, as minister, he was head of the labor, nutrition and culture departments. When Wilhelm Bazille took office as the new Württemberg state president on June 3, 1924, Rau returned to his position as ministerial director and was busy with the dissolution of the labor and nutrition ministries until 1930. From April 29, 1930 to March 31, 1933, Rau was President of the Württemberg Administrative Court, before retiring for political reasons after the National Socialists came to power.

In addition to his political offices, Rau was also active in the Protestant regional church , including as a member of the regional synod (1931-1948) and as president of the regional church convention (1946-1948).

Edmund Rau had been with Mathilde Pauline Rau, born in 1897. Kühner (1876–1955), married. The couple had four daughters.

Honors

• 1908 Knight 1st class of the Order of Frederick (1916 with swords)
• 1908 Landwehr service award, 2nd class
• 1912 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown (1916 Cross of Honor)
• 1915 Iron Cross 2nd class
• 1930 honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen
• 1953 Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

See also

• List of the Presidents of Württemberg
• Cabinet Rau (Württemberg)

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 450 .
• Frank Raberg :  Rau, Edmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 190 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Frank Raberg: Rau, Edmund . In: Baden-Württemberg biographies . Volume III. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 303-305
• 150 years of doctorate at the Economics Faculty of the University of Tübingen: Biographies d. Doctors, honorary doctors, etc. Habilitated 1830-1980 (1984) / arr. by Immo Eberl u. Helmut Marcon i. A. d. Economics Fac. D. Eberhard-Karls-Univ. Tübingen, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984: Biography Edmund Rau pp. 599–600, image p. 774