Ernst August Rudloff

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Ernst August Rudloff (born July 20, 1712 in Magdeburg , † February 12, 1775 in Moisall ) was a Mecklenburg jurist and politician.

Life

Ernst August Rudloff was the son of the Prussian War and Domain Councilor Kilian Rudloff , who worked at the War and Domain Chamber in Magdeburg. Rudloff studied law at the University of Halle from 1727 to 1731 , where he was the last repetitor for Count Heinrich IX. Reuss and Karl Friedrich von Stolberg was. From 1731 to 1732 he studied at the University of Wittenberg and heard from his relative Augustin Leyser , with whom he stayed in a friendly, learned correspondence. On the recommendation of the Hanoverian Higher Appeal Court Councilor Friedrich Wilhelm von Leyser , he became court master for the brothers Joachim Werner and Detlev von Bülow from Gudow in the Duchy of Lauenburg and befriended their second guardian, District Administrator Barthold Dietrich von Negendank auf Zierow . In this way he came into contact with the knighthood interest in the fight of the Mecklenburg estates against Duke Karl Leopold of Mecklenburg and found a job in the knighthood archive in Rostock. By 1748 he rose to state offices up to the state syndic of the Mecklenburg knighthood, for which he had previously worked as a legal representative in court proceedings. Rudloff had enrolled at the University of Rostock in order to do his doctorate there under Ernst Johann Friedrich Mantzel . Duke Karl Leopold, however, forbade the Faculty of Law in Rostock to obtain a doctorate from Rudloff out of annoyance at his advocacy for the positions of the Mecklenburg Knighthood, so that he had to switch to the University of Greifswald , where he received a doctorate from Augustin von Balthasar in 1741. of both rights.

After the Mecklenburg knighthood under Duke Christian Ludwig II was able to prevail against the ducal house, the minister Gottfried Rudolf von Ditmar Rudloff tried to involve the Mecklenburg government work and on February 3, 1752 appointed him to the real government councilor in Schwerin . As a concession he was allowed to keep his residence in Rostock, where he had bought a larger property. However, he acquired the Moisall estate near Bützow halfway between Rostock and Schwerin. In 1754 he was a member of the commission at the “Convocations-Landtag” in Rostock in the preparatory work on the Land Constitutional Constitutional Comparison . On October 18, 1755, he was commissioned to draft the “Mecklenburg Land Law” promised therein, as well as the rules of procedure and permission to do this work entirely in Moisall. The Seven Years' War delayed its completion, so that by his death only four parts and two books of the six-part legal codification had been completed.

His estate is in the Schwerin State Main Archive . His large legal and historical library was auctioned in Bützow in 1776.

family

Rudloff married Anna Ilsabe Prehn († November 23, 1788) on January 12, 1742, daughter of the Rostock councilor Wilhelm Prehn (1668–1751). They had nine children, of whom two sons survived: Wilhelm August Rudloff, the legal scholar and later Hanoverian archivist and lawyer , and the historian Friedrich August von Rudloff . One daughter married the later Mecklenburg court counselor Faull in Schwerin and was the mother of Peter Friedrich Rudolf Faull .

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  1. ↑ Entry 1739 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Entry 1740 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ The University of Rostock only accepted it in 1751 after Duke Karl Leopold had died; Entry 1751 in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  4. ^ The legal scholar Johann Jacob Prehn was a nephew. For family relationships, see Prehn there.

 

personal data
SURNAME Rudloff, Ernst August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg jurist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1775
Place of death Moisall