Friedrich Rettig

Friedrich Christian Rettig, Minister of the Interior of Baden in 1845.

Friedrich Christian Rettig (born July 1, 1781 in Heidelberg , † September 10, 1859 in Karlsruhe ; Protestant) was a lawyer and in 1845 was interim head of the Ministry of the Interior in Baden . He was also a member of the Baden state parliament for many years .

family

Franz Rettig was the son of Franz Daniel Rettig (born August 3, 1724 in Kaiserslautern , † August 1, 1794 in Heidelberg), clerical administrator in Heidelberg, and Charlotte-born Rittmann, daughter of Konrad Rittmann, director of the marriage court in Heidelberg. He was married to Maria Elisabeth nee Krutthof. From this marriage there were 16 children: Franz Karl (born March 29, 1803 in Neckargemünd ; † March 10, 1804 ibid), Luise Charlotte (born August 13, 1804 in Neckargemünd; † December 2, 1836 in Konstanz ), Henriette Auguste (* December 14, 1805 in Neckargemünd; † 1841 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), Maria Elisabeth (born May 13, 1807 in Neckargemünd; † June 22, 1807 ibid), Konrad Louis (born June 15, 1808 in Neckargemünd; † November 11, 1894 Texas / USA), Friedrich Franz Karl (* June 16, 1809; † October 10, 1856 in Freiburg im Breisgau), Karl August Otto (* June 16, 1809; † 1844), Karoline Flora (* November 26, 1810 in Bretten ), Johanna Margarete (born February 28, 1812 in Bretten; † in Ludwigsburg ), Friederike Elisabeth (born March 28, 1813 in Bretten; † August 23, 1814 ibid), Charlotte Elisabeth (born August 25, 1814 in Bretten), Charlotte Auguste Maria (born April 17, 1816 in Bretten; † April 19, 1836 in Konstanz), Maria Elisabeth Jakobine (born November 29, 1818 in Bretten), Maria Friederike Sophie Babette (born Aug. ust 1820 in Weinheim ; † August 28, 1821 ibid), Eleonora Karoline Friederike (born September 23, 1821 in Weinheim; † 1876 in Freiburg im Breisgau) and Juliane Karoline Jakobine (born September 9, 1824 in Weinheim; † in Karlsruhe).

Life

Friedrich Rettig studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1796 and at the University of Heidelberg from the summer semester of 1797 . On May 16, 1801 he was electoral Palatinate right candidate and on September 4 of the same year lawyer at the Oberamt Bretten . On September 20, 1803 he was clerk at the Neckargemünd office . After the electoral Palatinate was dissolved, he was accepted into the Baden state service and on December 16, 1807, he took up the position of bailiff and head of the cork office . On December 31, 1809, he was appointed head of the district office of Bretten , where he was promoted to senior bailiff on August 25, 1814. On January 23, 1819, he became the head of the district office of Weinheim and, from July 16, 1825, city director at the Freiburg municipal office . On June 30, 1827 he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior as a ministerial advisor , and from 1830 onwards he was appointed district director of the Seekreis in Constance . On December 31, 1835 he was appointed Privy Councilor 2nd class. On October 10, 1839, at the request of State Minister von Blittersdorf, he was put into temporary retirement and reactivated as Ministerial Director on December 3, 1844 . He then held the interim management of the Ministry of the Interior until the new minister Karl Friedrich Nebenius took office in March 1845. On December 19, 1846, Rettig became government director of the Middle Rhine District in Rastatt . On August 23, 1849, he was first service locum tenens and then land commissioner in Karlsruhe. On December 23, 1858, he was retired at his own request.

Political activity

Friedrich Rettig was electoral commissioner in constituency 2 (city of Konstanz) on November 15, 1830 and in 1831, 1833, 1835 a member of the second chamber of the Baden state assembly of constituency 2 for the 5th to 7th state parliament. In 1841/42, 1843/45, 1845/46, 1847/49, 1850/51, 1851/52, 1854, 1855/56 and 1857/58 he was also a member of the constituency 31 (offices of Philippsburg and district office of Schwetzingen ) of the 11th until 18th state parliament.

Sideline

• 1843 member of the board of directors of the Freiburg Institute for the Blind
• Lecturer at the University of Freiburg
• December 21, 1849 Chairman of the Compensation Commission after the Revolution of 1848/49

Awards

Göttingen-Weende, Friedrich-Rettig-Weg

• 1832 Knight's Cross of the Zähringer Lion Order
• 1844 Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Zähringer Lion Order
• 1847 Commander's Cross with oak leaves of the Zähringer Lion Order
• 1858 Commander's Cross 1st class with oak leaves of the Zähringer Lion Order

Works

• The police legislation of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Systematically processed , Karlsruhe 1827
• The territorial border question between Germany and France , Leipzig 1841
• The mayor of Baden. A practical guide for the mayors and councilors , Freiburg im Breisgau 1842
• Book of forms for the Grand Duchy of Baden, containing instructions and forms to conclude contracts and legal transactions ... , Zurich and Baden 1846

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. 460 .
• Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , pp. 166–168.
• Bernd Wunder: The Baden civil service between the Confederation of the Rhine and the founding of the Empire (1806–1871). Service law, pension, training, career, social profile and political stance. Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-17-014379-4 .