Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger

Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger (ca.1910, portrait by Osmar Schindler )

Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger (born October 26, 1837 in Dresden ; † February 20, 1916 there ) was a German lawyer and conservative politician. He acted u. a. as Saxon Minister of Justice , Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Ministry as a whole .

Live and act

The son of the Saxon captain Johann Christian Wilhelm von Rüger first attended the Dresden Böttchersche private school and then passed his Abitur at the Kreuzschule . From 1856 to 1859, he studied law at the University of Leipzig . From 1860 on he was employed in a law firm. After becoming a Dr. jur. had received his doctorate, he settled in 1865 as a lawyer.

When he joined the Dresden Court of Appeal as a judge , he entered the civil service in 1875. A year later he became an employee in the Ministry of Justice and in 1879 lecturer council . Since he took up the office of mayor in Dresden (head of the tax office) on July 1, 1880, he retired from civil service. He held this post until 1884. After that he was briefly employed by the Fire Insurance Commission, but soon switched back to the civil service, where he was active again as a lecturer in the Ministry of Justice. As a member of the Commission on the drafting of the Civil Code , he was from 1888 to the creation of the BGB involved. On April 1, 1895, he took the position of attorney general at the Dresden Higher Regional Court . In addition, from June 1895 he was active as a lecturing council in the Saxon Ministry as a whole. On June 19, 1901, he became the Saxon Minister of Justice. On February 11, 1902, he changed departments and became Saxon finance minister. On May 21, 1906 he also took over the management of the entire ministry. He resigned from both posts in the autumn of 1910.

literature

• Horst Heinrich Jakobs, Werner Schubert: Materials on the history of the creation of the BGB: Einf., Biographien, Material , 1978, p. 84 ( online edition at Google Books )

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger in the Saxon Bibliography
• Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger in the Stadtwiki Dresden