Ignaz von Ruber

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Ignaz von Ruber (1903)

Baron Ignaz von Ruber (born May 8, 1845 in Brno (Brno in Czech), † November 7, 1933 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician and lawyer . He served as Minister of Justice from 1897 to 1899.

Life

Ignaz von Ruber was a son of the lawyer Ignaz Edler von Ruber († 1873). He received his early education at Vienna's elite high school Theresianum and studied from 1864 for four years jurisprudence at the Universities of Vienna and Graz . From 1868 he devoted himself to a career in the court service. In 1870 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Law in Graz . In the same year he was appointed adjunct at the Regional Court of Brno and in 1875 the secretariat of the Supreme Court and Cassation Court in Vienna. In 1876 he became a substitute public prosecutor in Brno and in 1885 in the same city as a regional judge.

In 1887 Ruber moved to the General Procuratorate at the Supreme Court in Vienna, where he received the post of General Counsel in 1891. In 1896 he became section head in the Ministry of Justice. On November 30, 1897, he was appointed minister of justice to the Gautsch I ministry and kept this department in the Thun ministry . He had to take violent criticism because of the verdict of the Supreme Court of 1898, which attached legal force to the so-called Bohemian Charter formulated by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1848 . In this cabinet letter the Emperor recognized the use of the Bohemian language in state administration as being on an equal footing with that of the German language. In 1898, Riber's decree also caused a stir, advising judicial officials not to interfere in politics. Furthermore, in the same year he was faced with the task of working out a suitable schedule of costs for the lawyers because of the code of civil procedure issued at the time .

After his resignation from his ministerial post on October 2, 1899, Ruber became President of the Senate of the Supreme Court and Cassation Court. On December 15, 1902, he was appointed a member of the manor for life, where he joined the Middle Party. In 1903 he became vice and in 1907 president of the Supreme Court. Raised the baron status in 1909, he retired in 1918. His legal publications mainly concerned the Moravian legal history. Ruber, who married Maria Leidenfrost in 1874 and had three children with her, died on November 7, 1933, at the age of 88 in Vienna.

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