Maximilian Ruef

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Maximilian Ruef (born November 1, 1804 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † April 13, 1881, ibid.) Was a grand ducal court advocate in Freiburg from 1828.

Youth and Studies

Maximilian Ruef was a son of the bailiff Ruef and nephew of the university librarian Johann Kaspar Ruef . He attended school in Freiburg and studied law at the university. In 1821 Rueff joined the old Freiburg fraternity , in which he held the offices of clerk, treasurer and speaker in the following years. According to the University Act of the Karlsbad Decisions of 1819, fraternities were forbidden in the territory of the German Confederation ; continuing associations of students thus existed outside of legality. On February 26, 1826, Ruef and other federal brothers were sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, which he served in Kislau . Despite this criminal record , he was accepted as a legal trainee at the court court of the Upper Rhine District in Freiburg in spring 1826 and, after completing his training, was appointed lawyer and procurator there on August 15, 1828 .

Journalistic and political activity

In 1832, Ruef founded the Badische Volksblatt published by the association of Vaterlandsfreunde . But after he also wrote articles for the liberal newspaper Der Freisinnige , in 1833 he left the editing of the Volksblatt to a friend, which ceased publication at the end of 1835. In 1833 the Freiburgers elected Ruef to the local council, from which he resigned in 1838 due to incompatibility with his work as court lawyer. Together with Karl von Rotteck , Ruef founded the civil reading society Harmonie im Haus Zur Tannen in Grünwälderstraße in 1835, which was progressively different from the civil reading society that had existed in Freiburg since 1807 .

In the Baden Revolution

On February 29, 1848, 800 people gathered in Harmonie, elected a people's committee, compiled a catalog of revolutionary demands and thus sent a delegation to Karlsruhe. But as the Baden Revolution progressed , Ruef developed into a moderate constitutional liberal and, together with the Freiburg mayor Joseph von Rotteck , founded the patriotic association loyal to the princes on February 18, 1849 in the hall of the historic department store .

literature

  • Cajetan Jäger : Literary Freiburg im Breisgau . Franz Xaver Wagner, Freiburg 1839, pp. 132-133 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Gundermann: The members of the old Freiburg fraternity (1816-1851). Freiburg im Breisgau 1984/2004.
  2. ↑ Baden (Germany): Baden law and regulation sheet. Malsch & Vogel, 1828, p. 179 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ^ Berlin State Library, newspaper department: Badisches Volksblatt: for entertainment, instruction and dissemination of non-profit knowledge for citizens in town and country. In: zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. February 8, 2012, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Michael Hartmann et al: The "stain of revolutionism" and an end with horror (1815–1849). In: Heiko Haumann , Hans Schadek (Hrsg.): History of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. Vol. 3: From the rule of Baden to the present , 1996, p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Ruef, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1881
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau