Otto Rundel

Otto Rundel (born August 19, 1927 in Ravensburg , † May 26, 2010 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer .

Live and act

Otto Rundel attended elementary school and the Spohn grammar school in his home town of Ravensburg . A two-year deployment as an air force helper and soldier interrupted his school days. 1946 enrolled him at the University of Munich . He studied law and economics and has been at the University of Cologne to Dr. iur. PhD. Since his studies he has been a member of the Catholic student association KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich . In 1947 he joined the CDU . During the reign of Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Kurt Georg Kiesinger , he was his personal advisor and later one of his close confidants. In 1975 he became President of the Baden-Württemberg Court of Auditors . After he left in 1991, Rundel was honorary president of the Baden-Württemberg Management Academy until 1995 .

He died in May 2010 at the age of 82 in Karlsruhe and is buried in the main cemetery of his hometown Ravensburg.

Publications

• The legal limits of the procurement of information by the offices for the protection of the constitution , dissertation from July 15, 1959 (University of Cologne, legal faculty), Stuttgart 1959
• Kurt Georg Kiesinger. His life and political work , 1st edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019341-3

Honors

• Iron Cross 2nd class
• 1982: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1987: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1991: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1996: Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Paul Feuchte: Otto Rundel - A look at personality, life and work , in: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, 159th volume, 2011, pp. 655–673
• Paul Feuchte: Otto Rundel commemorating , in: Verwaltungsblätter für Baden-Württemberg, Volume 32, Issue 4/2011, pp. 141–144

Web links

• Works by Otto Rundel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Otto Rundel  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

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