Ludwig Rumpff

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Carl Ludwig Franz Rumpff (born February 9, 1822 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 13, 1885 there ; murdered) was a royal Prussian police advisor and detective inspector.

Life

Rumpff came from an old Frankfurt family and began an officer career in the military of the Free City of Frankfurt , the line battalion . After falling from his horse, he had to quit duty as a lieutenant in 1852. He began to study law , which he completed in 1855 with a doctorate . In 1857 he joined the Frankfurt police . The police office of the small city-state was located in the Konstablerwache . In 1863 he was appointed police assessor, who was responsible for conducting investigations and investigative proceedings on behalf of the police court .

After Frankfurt was annexed by Prussia in 1866, the Frankfurt police were transferred to the Prussian civil service in 1867. Rumpff became a royal Prussian police adviser. He was seen as an energetic and incorruptible investigator in criminal proceedings. In the population of the city, who found it difficult to cope with the loss of sovereignty , there were clear reservations and resistance to the Prussian police reforms, especially during the time in office of Police President August von Hergenhahn . On April 21, 1873, the Frankfurt beer riot broke out and 20 people were killed when it was suppressed by the Prussian military. As a result, Rumpff concentrated his investigations on suspected conspiracies from social democratic and anarchist circles and against organizations prohibited by the Socialist Act of 1878. He worked with covert methods. For example, he smuggled an informant into the anarchist group around August Reinsdorf and received information about the planned bombing of the Niederwald monument on September 28, 1883 in July 1883. In the trial against the assassins before the Leipzig Imperial Court , Rumpff was called in as an expert.

Due to his success, Rumpff was regarded as an anarchist eater and was himself the target of assassinations. On October 30, 1883, unknown persons carried out an explosive attack on the Frankfurt police headquarters in the Clesernhof am Römer . Rumpff, however, was unharmed.

On January 13, 1885, an assassin Rumpff lay in wait in the front garden of his house at Im Sachsenlager 5 and murdered him with several stitches with a dagger . A few days later, Julius Lieske , a Bockenheimer shoemaker, was arrested as the alleged perpetrator . Although he denied the act, he was sentenced to death in a circumstantial trial. Lieske had a cut on his right hand, about the cause of which he made contradicting statements. According to the doctors' opinion, it probably came from a dagger. In addition, Lieske had demonstrably been in Frankfurt on the day of the attack. On November 17, 1885, Lieske was executed in the Wehlheide prison in Kassel .

Honors

Rumpff was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Order of the Red Eagle , the Order of the Crown , the Order of St. Anne and the Order of Knights of the Legion of Honor . To care for his surviving children, the Prussian House of Representatives passed a law on April 17, 1885, under which his two children received an annual pension of 2,745 marks each for life.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Collection of laws and statutes of the Free City of Frankfurt, Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 1817, p. 185
  2. ^ Hugo Friedländer , The Murder of the Police Council Dr. Hull to Frankfurt a. M. , Berlin 1908
  3. ↑ Law on the provision of the survivors of the Rumpff Police Council of April 17, 1885, Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States 1885, No. 9052, p. 116
personal data
SURNAME Rumpff, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rumpff, Carl Ludwig Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian police adviser and detective inspector
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1885
Place of death Frankfurt am Main