Gideon from Rudhart

Gideon Rudhart , since 1875 Knight von Rudhart (born November 12, 1833 in Passau , † November 4, 1898 at Gut Schwaigwang near Garmisch) was a Bavarian diplomat.

family

Rudhart was a son of the Bavarian State Council and President of the Lower Danube District Ignaz Ritter von Rudhart and his wife Ixenia. In 1877 he married Viktoria, born in Dirmstein. von Borsari, widowed noble von Putzbacher.

Life

After graduating from high school in Passau (1851), Rudhart studied law in Munich and Heidelberg . In Munich he became a member of the Corps Franconia . During his studies in Heidelberg he shot during a gun duel a Conkneipanten of Vandalia . After another semester in Berlin, he passed his first legal exam in Munich. In 1857 he passed the state examination. His first job was as an accessist in the government of Upper Bavaria in Munich. In June 1861 he was appointed ministerial advisor to the State Ministry of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs. In 1865 he was temporarily the secretary's representative at the Bavarian embassy in Rome. On January 1, 1866, he was appointed Ministerial Secretary, and in December 1867 as the secret secretary of the Legation. In this position he was commissioner of the international exhibition in Munich. In February 1869, Rudhart was transferred to the Bavarian legation in Paris as secret secretary of the legation. On August 11, 1869 he was appointed Legation Councilor with the rank of Royal Bavarian Government Councilor. In July 1871 he was appointed chargé d'affaires to the French Republic in Paris, and from January 1872 also assigned to the Belgian court. From November 1874 Rudhart was Privy Legation Councilor 2nd Class and from September 1, 1877 Privy Legation Councilor 1st Class and Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Prussian court.

In 1875 King Ludwig II awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . With the award, the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Knight of Rudhart" after the entry in the nobility register .

On November 16, 1880, he became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Russian Court in St. Petersburg. For health reasons he was put into temporary retirement in March 1883. After his health improved, he became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Dresden in October 1886. On December 1, 1887, he went into permanent retirement, which he spent in Munich and most recently with his mother at Gut Schwaigwang near Garmisch.

Awards

• Commander's Cross of the Order of the French Legion of Honor (1877)
• Commander's Cross of the Belgian Order of the Leopold (1877)
• Prussian Order of the Crown, 1st Class (1880)
• Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus I Class (1883)
• Grand Cross of the Saxon Order of Albrecht (1886)
• Grand Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael (1887)

literature

• 200 semesters of Munich francs. [Munich 1936], p. 108f. (No. 208)