Franz Friedrich Ruhstrat

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Franz Friedrich Paul Ruhstrat (born October 28, 1859 in Vechta , † July 26, 1935 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer and Oldenburg Minister of State .

biography

Ruhstrat came from a family of lawyers from Oldenburg who provided many high-ranking state officials in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. He was the son of the Vice-President of the Higher Appeal Court Ernst Ruhstrat (born November 30, 1815 - December 17, 1890) and his wife Martha geb. Wallroth (1836-1923). His uncle Friedrich Andreas Ruhstrat (1818-1896) was also Minister of Finance and State and his son Friedrich Julius Heinrich Ruhstrat (1854-1916), his cousin, was Minister of State and his direct predecessor in this office.

After attending school at the Oldenburg grammar school , he studied law at the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig . In 1885 he was accepted into the judicial service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and started his first job as an auditor in Oldenburg. In 1886 he came to Jever as a district attorney and in 1887 became a district judge in Brake . After a brief activity as a regional court assessor in Oldenburg, he was finally appointed public prosecutor in May 1890 . In January 1896 he was promoted to the district judge and in May 1896 to the senior public prosecutor .

After Grand Duke Friedrich August came to power , with whom he was a close friend, Ruhstrat was appointed Head of Department for Justice, Churches, Schools and Military Affairs on August 20, 1900 with the title of a Secret Council of State. On November 16, 1902, he was appointed Minister .

At the beginning of his ministerial activity, Ruhstrat was involved in an affair that became known to the German public under the name of Ruhstrat- or player trials . The editor-in-chief of the left-liberal Oldenburgische Zeitung, the resident messenger, Hans Biermann, accused Ruhstrat in 1902 of having been involved in games of chance , which would also have led to the suicide of one of the players. The opponents of the minister were sentenced to severe sentences in several libel trials by Oldenburg courts. These proceedings were heavily criticized in the national press as a “judicial scandal”. However, on July 11, 1905, at least the perjury trial against a waiter at the civil casino in Oldenburg, who had previously testified to Ruhstrat's gambling activity, ended with an acquittal, which, as a verdict against a high representative of Wilhelmine Germany, was a sensation. However, the Grand Duke stood behind Ruhstrat, who was thus able to remain in office.

In November 1905, Ruhstrat was awarded the title of Excellence . From January 3, 1916 to November 6, 1918, as Minister of State, he chaired the State Ministry and exercised the function of Prime Minister .

As a minister, he pursued a conservative course - in school policy but also as minister of state - and rejected it for Oldenburg at the beginning of November 1918, when the German federal princes were already showing willingness to introduce a parliamentary form of government at the national level. Even bourgeois and conservative politicians turned against him and Ruhstrat had to resign on November 6, 1918, before the proclamation of the republic in Germany . He was first up for grabs asked and finally came in May 1925 in the retirement .

family

Ruhstrat was married to Berta geb. Töbelmann, the daughter of a building councilor from Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Fonts

  • The Oldenburg state private law . Oldenburg. 1900.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Friedländer : The Oldenburg player trials. Minister Ruhstrat. In: Interesting criminal trials of cultural and historical importance. Representation of strange criminal cases from the present and the recent past. Volume 4. Berliner Buchversand, Berlin 1911, pp. 29–157. Digital edition in: zeno.org , online .
  2. ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd Edition. Volume 8 (Peothen - Schlueter). KG Saur Verlag. Munich. 2007. ISBN 9783110940251
personal data
SURNAME Ruhstrat, Franz Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruhstrat, Franz Friedrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Oldenburg Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Vechta
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1935
Place of death Goettingen