Hermann Rumpf

Johann Hermann Hull (* 8. May 1875 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 15. January 1942 ibid ) was a German jurist . Rumpf was from 1920 to 1932, first for the German Liberal Party and later for the German People's Party , a member of the Nassau municipal parliament , from 1921 to 1930 a member of the Prussian State Council and from 1930 to 1932 in the provincial parliament of Hessen-Nassau .

Life

family

Hermann came from the Rumpf family in Wetterau , from which numerous scientists, artists and theologians emerged. His grandfather was the architect Friedrich Rumpf (1795–1867), who built classicist buildings that shaped Frankfurt am Main . His son Anton Karl Rumpf (1838–1911) became a sculptor . He married Marie Viktoire, a born Savoy. They were Hermann's parents. He was the only son of the couple's four children.

Education and professional career

Rumpf attended the municipal high school in Frankfurt that he left with the Abitur . He studied law and economics at the universities in Tübingen , Leipzig and Marburg . At the law faculty of Leipzig University he received his doctorate in 1905 with the dissertation The complaint of the appellant as a prerequisite for the appointment of Dr. jur. Rumpf was accepted into the Prussian judicial service as a court trainee in the district of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main , and since November 1902 as a court assessor .

Later he settled permanently in Frankfurt as a lawyer , and since 1920 also as a notary . On January 3, 1911, he was already a city ​​councilor in Frankfurt, an office that he held until November 7, 1919. Two weeks earlier, on October 20, 1919, Rumpf was elected unpaid city ​​councilor in Frankfurt, but resigned as such on November 28, 1921. In 1925 he became a member of the board of directors of the Free German Hochstift , which he chaired in 1936. On the occasion of a joint meeting of the Goethe Society , the German Shakespeare Society and the Free German Hochstift on August 28, 1938 in Frankfurt, he wrote the book From the History of the Free German Hochstift for all participants. In October 1928, after a resolution by the foundation board to dissolve, he was liquidator of the Freiherrlich Carl von Rothschild public library foundation and transferred the movable property of the foundation to the city of Frankfurt am Main. The foundation was established in 1887 by Hannah Luise von Rothschild (1850–1892) in memory of her father Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886) who died in 1886 .

Hermann Rumpf died on January 15, 1942 at the age of 66 in his native Frankfurt. For his services he was awarded the title of judicial councilor . He was married to Sophie, born May. They had three sons.

Parliamentary work

From 1920 to 1932 Rumpf was a member of the Nassau municipal parliament. 1920 for the German Liberal Party and from 1921 to 1925 and 1930 to 1932 for the German People's Party. From 1926 to 1929 he was part of the Hessen-Nassau working group for city and country. From May 1921 to January 1930 he was a member of the working group in the Prussian State Council for the German People's Party. From 1930 to 1932 he represented his hometown Frankfurt in the provincial parliament of Hessen-Nassau . He belonged to the Hessen-Nassau Provincial Council and was a member of the Provincial Committee of Hessen-Nassau from 1930 to 1933.

Publications (selection)

• Complaint by the appellant as a prerequisite for appeal. ( Dissertation ), Frankfurt am Main 1905.
• The support of the war families in Frankfurt am Main. Report on the activities of the support commission of the delivery association in the first year of the war. 1915.
• From the history of the Free German Hochstift. ( Festschrift ), Frankfurt am Main 1938.

literature

• Barbara Burkhardt, Manfred Pult: Nassau parliamentarians. A biographical manual . Part 2: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden 1868–1933. (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17; Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 71). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003. ISBN 978-3-9302-2111-0 .
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 136.
• Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933. With appendix: The Provincial Parliament in Hessen-Nassau 1885–1933. (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 22; Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 48.8). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-86354-105-7 .

Web links

• Hermann Rumpf in the German biography
• Rumpf, Johann Hermann. Hessian biography. (As of July 28, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).