Otto Rust (lawyer)
Otto Rust (born October 11, 1861 , † August 16, 1942 ) was a German lawyer and the first attorney general of the attorney general in Cologne .
Life
Otto Rust was born as the son of the Prussian government councilor and later center member Franz Rust in Osterode am Harz . After studying law in Strasbourg, Bonn and Berlin and obtaining his doctorate , he was appointed public prosecutor in Cologne in 1896 and transferred to the public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf in 1900. In 1908 he was appointed first public prosecutor (Ltd. public prosecutor) in Stendal, in the same position in 1913 in Duisburg. In 1916 he became head of the attorney general in Cologne and after the introduction of the title of attorney general in 1920 he became the attorney general of the attorney general in Cologne. He held this office until he retired on March 31, 1928.
Rust was the first chairman of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Prison Society for many years. It is also recorded that Otto Rust, in his capacity as Attorney General, recited a poem he had written himself in March 1927 at the inauguration of a hall of honor in the Reichenspergerplatz judicial building for those who died in the First World War . Otto Rust was married to Leonie Mooren, a daughter of the Düsseldorf honorary citizen and ophthalmologist Albert Mooren .
Honors
- Commander of the Papal Order of Gregory
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölnische Volkszeitung of March 30, 1928, No. 241, p. 1
- ^ Adolf Klein: Hundred Years of Files - Hundred Years of Facts in: Adolf Klein / Günter Rennen (eds.), Justitia Coloniensis , Greven Verlag, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7743-0192-1 , p. 127
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| SURNAME | Rust, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and attorney general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1861 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1942 |