Philippe Rühl

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Philippe Rühl

Philippe Jacob Rühl (born May 3, 1737 in Strasbourg ; † May 29, 1795 ) was a Franco-German politician who was a member of the National Convention in Paris as a deputy of the Bas-Rhin department during the French Revolution .

He studied theology in Strasbourg, was court master of the Count of Grumbach and "after some great pranks, received the rectorate of Dürkheim an der Hart ", where he organized the Count of Leiningen 's archives, led a Reich Chamber Court process and as a secret councilor for all affairs of state was responsible.

In his office under Count Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1724–1807, Reichsfürst from 1779) he got into hard arguments with Carl Friedrich Bahrdt , whom the Count had called to Dürkheim as superintendent in 1776 and who was a philanthropist in Heidesheim according to the model operated from Dessau. The school failed and Bahrdt, the controversial representative of the Enlightenment, had to flee, convicted of heresy by the Imperial Court Council.

When he became an advocate of the French Revolution, the "man of excellent talents and merits for the Leinigisches Haus" gave up his service for the Count of Leiningen and became the representative of Alsace in the National Convention. He gave Friedrich Schiller French civil rights and was a member of the twelve-member security committee from 1793–1795, which was originally supposed to oversee the police and judiciary, but which developed into an instrument of Jacobean terror. Its members met every evening and discussed the political situation with the members of the welfare committee on a weekly basis. They cracked down on real and alleged enemies of the revolution. Because of his involvement in "Jacobean violence" he was arrested in 1795 and stabbed himself.

literature

  • Jürgen Voss: The man who made Schiller an honorary citizen of France in 1792: Philippe Jacques Rühl (1737-1795) . In: Franco-German relations in the area of ​​tension between absolutism, enlightenment and revolution. Selected contributions . Bonn 1992, p. 313 ff. ( Digitized version )

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 11, Leipzig 1811, p. 477ff.
  2. ^ Albert Becker: Philipp Jakob Rühl (1737-1795). In: Leininger Geschichtsblätter. 8 (1909), pp. 1-3.
  3. ↑ Gert Röwenstrunk: Bahrdt, Carl Friedrich (1741-1792). In: Theological Real Encyclopedia. Volume 1, Berlin 1980, pp. 132-133.
  4. ^ Karl Gotthold Lenz: Critical biography of the d. Carl Friedrich Bahrdt. 1793. (Reprint 2009, p. 50)
personal data
SURNAME Rühl, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rühl, Philippe Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1795