Otto Rudlin

Otto Rüdlin (born February 11, 1861 in Woldenberg (Neumark) , † February 3, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Prussian civil service who was State Secretary of the Reich Post Office from 1917 to 1919 .

After graduating from the Joachimsthal Gymnasium , Rüdlin studied law in Berlin. Here he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Marchia (today: Landsmannschaft Marchia Berlin zu Osnabrück in the CC ). In 1883 he passed the trainee examination . In 1888 he became a court assessor .

With the change to the state Prussian railway administration , he carried the title of government assessor from 1890 . In 1896 he was promoted to government councilor. In 1904, when he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Public Works , to which the railway system was also subordinate, he was appointed to the secret government council and lecturing council. In 1908 he rose to the top secret government council. The next step in his career took place in 1910: he was appointed President of the Berlin Railway Directorate . During the First World War he was head of the "Oberbetriebsleitung Ost".

On August 8, 1917, he took up the post of State Secretary of the Reich Post Office, which he held until January 19, 1919, the day of the election to the National Assembly .

After leaving the service he was chairman of the board of directors of the nitrogen syndicate for several years .

Rüdlin died shortly before his 67th birthday in Berlin-Dahlem . He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

literature

• Your Excellency Rüdlin †. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 68, No. 6 (February 9, 1928), pp. 153–154.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 756.