Gustav von Rümelin

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Gustav Rümelin (portrait of Roland Risse in the Tübingen Professorengalerie )

Christian Heinrich Wilhelm Gustav Rümelin , from 1856 by Rümelin , (born March 26, 1815 in Ravensburg , † October 28, 1889 in Tübingen ) was a German educator , politician and statistician .

Life and work

Family grave site Rümelin in the Tübingen city cemetery , here not only Gustav von Rümelin but also Max von Rümelin , their wives and other family members rest

Rümelin attended school in Heilbronn and then the Protestant theological seminar in Schöntal . From 1832 to 1836 he studied theology at the Tübinger Stift , which he completed in 1836 with the theological exam. In 1832 he became a member of the fraternity- affiliated Kneipgesellschaft der Patrioten . In 1837 he graduated as Dr. phil. at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . From 1838 to 1845 he was a repetitionist in the seminary in Schöntal and a teacher in Ludwigsburg , Kirchheim , Langenburg , Heilbronn, Ellwangen , Göppingen and Stuttgart . During this time he passed his second theological examination in 1841 and the professorial examination in 1843.

From 1845 to 1849 Gustav Rümelin was rector of the Latin school in Nürtingen , and from 1849 to 1852 he was high school professor in Heilbronn and Stuttgart. In 1852 he became Ministerialrat and member of the Royal Academic Council in the Ministry of Culture (which was referred to as the Department of Churches and Schools in the royal Württemberg ). From April 9, 1856 to April 5, 1861 he headed the Ministry of Culture in the Linden Ministry with the rank of Real Councilor of State . He resigned from this office in 1861 after the state parliament had rejected the plan he was pursuing to conclude a concordat with the Vatican .

Rümelin then turned to statistics . From 1861 to 1873 he was head of the Royal Württemberg Statistical-Topographical Bureau , and from 1867 he was also Professor of Statistics and Comparative Studies at the University of Tübingen. From 1870 until his death he was Chancellor of the University of Tübingen. The main teaching activities were social statistics , political statistics , comparative national studies and legal philosophy .

family

His father Gustav Rümelin (1785–1850) was a chief magistrate and chief justice officer in Heilbronn. His mother Henriette Dreiß (1790-1865) was the daughter of the Heilbronn businessman Christian Dreiß (1753-1808) and Wilhelmine Kaufmann. Rümelin had four siblings, including Eugen Gustav Rümelin (1812–1899) and the Heilbronn bankers Richard Rümelin (1818–1880) and Max Rümelin (1823–1893).

In 1847 Gustav von Rümelin married Marie Schmoller (1824-1891), the daughter of the Württemberg finance council and camera administrator in Heilbronn, Friedrich von Schmoller (1795-1865) and his wife Therese nee. Gardener (1804-1846). Through the marriage, the economist Gustav von Schmoller became Rumelin's brother-in-law.

In the marriage of Gustav von Rümelins with Marie geb. Schmoller had four children, including the well-known legal scholars :

politics

Because of the respected position that Rümelin had created for himself in Nürtingen through regular political lectures, he was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848. From May 18, 1848 to May 24, 1849 he was a member of parliament for the Nürtingen-Kirchheim district. He was a member of several committees in the Paulskirche , including the Imperial Deputation .

From 1856 to 1862 he was elected member of the city of Ludwigsburg for the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament . The mandate was suspended from 1856 to 1861 during his time as minister of education. From 1870 until his death in 1889 he was again a member of the Württemberg state parliament in his capacity as Chancellor of the University of Tübingen.

Honors, ennobling

In Nürtingen, Tübingen and Ravensburg streets were named after Gustav Rümelin.

Publications

  • The representation of the Protestant Church in Württemberg , Stuttgart 1845.
  • The Kingdom of Württemberg, a description of the country. People and State , publisher of the collective work, Stuttgart 1863.
  • Sense of justice and justice , Vittorio Klostermann-Verlag, Frankfurt 1871.
  • The justification of foreign words , published by JCB Mohr, Freiburg 1887.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 141-143. and Georg Schmidgall: The old Tübingen fraternity 1816–1828. In: Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement . 1940, vol. 17, pp. 1-187.
  2. ^ Friedrich Dürr : Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume I: 741-1895. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, DNB  870345044 , p. 407 ( Publications of the Archives of the City of Heilbronn . Volume 27. - Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1926).

literature

Web links

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